handy LJ feature

[neilfred]

(Already mentioned this in a comment on my previous entry, which announced the RSS feed, but figure I'll mention it again in its own entry for those who didn't bother to read the comments

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[darcydodo]

Of course since within LJ you only see a short snippet of the posts, hopefully no one would think to comment there anyway

Only some RSS feeds do that. Do you know what makes the difference?

[neilfred]

It's just a question of what the software that generates the feed includes in it... I haven't actually read the RSS spec (though I probably should...), I just looked at a couple of other feeds and kind of followed their example. I basically just have three fields for each blog entry: "title", "link", and "description". Some feeds seem to include the full entry in the "description"; I decided to just strip all html and then take the first 40 words. (Except for my phone photos, which include html for a thumbnail of the photo, and then include the full caption, which is generally fewer than 40 words anyway.)

[eviladmin]

Your photos are also on a syndicated feed:

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=neilfredsyn

Which I set up back when you only had that (and I did not realize it was just the photos.)