--- In [email protected], "Bill Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Approval is about technical accuracy, not value of content. I've > > approved feeds for blogs that were awful (in my opinion), and marked > > feeds for repair where the content was great (in my opinion) but the > > feeds were broken. > > Excellent point Stuart, thanks. > > > > Although one person said that a couple of the feeds needed fixing, it > > > was only a font problem in 2 or 3 of the feeds. > > > > Probably not a "font problem"... > > The tendency to jam all sorts of formatting gunk sort of misses the point > about how to best use RSS. It's all about preseting titles and descriptions > that let the reader make decisions about whether it's worth following that > link and reading more about it on the website. You don't need flashing > formatting for this. What you need are well-written titles and descriptions > that effectively engage your audience. Catch their attention and they'll > come visit the website for more of the story. You can then track those > landing URLs in your server logs and get a VERY accurate measure of just > what drew the audience's attention. > > > > for some reason, RSS likes this quote: " and not this one: " > > > > ...that implies an XML encoding problem. > > Yep, it's not the validator or RSS, it's XML that's picky about it. There > really aren't than many rules in XML but there are a few that cannot be > ignored. Character encoding is one of them. > > The validator is pretty thorough in how it checks feeds. The good part is > it's independent. It's not tied to any one particular service so it's free > to be VERY rigorous in it's testing. Note that not everything it complains > about is an error. There are some 'warnings' it makes (along with offering > explanations) that are generally good to correct. > > > We're more than happy to approve technically-sound feeds, but if > > you're looking to have broken feeds approved because you think the > > content is good, you need to re-think what approval on Syndic8 is > > really about. > > I agree. First and foremost it's about the feed being valid. Then it's abo > ut being usable in a feed reader (as in, not laden with formatting gunk). > > I suppose foremost would be that it's not SPAM, but that's a given. That > the content isn't something we dwell too closely upon. That it's not useful > to "me" doesn't mean it's not valid or approvable. Lots of other folks might > find the content quite useful. There are things like test feeds, setups > from new sites than never got updated, junk sites just looking to pimp > adsense links or game search engines, and the like that are things we > reject. But beyond those obvious attempt to publish junk everything else is > worth being validated and approved. > > When reviewing, if the feed is valid but the content is outside the realm of > what you might consider "useful" just pass on it. Leave it for someone else > to approve if you like. The act of 'approving' a feed doesn't have to mean > you 'like' it. It just means it was valid and appeared to have content that > could be used. > > But even I've come across feeds that were, shall we say, not exactly my cup > of tea. I just passed over them and left them for someone else to mark > approved. If only because I didn't want to have my account show up linked > to approving it and giving the search engine stalkers something to fixate > upon. I mean, who'd want to have some half-wit HR person run a google > search and reject them from a job because a link to a strange blog came up? > Thus sometimes it's simpler to just pass over a feed, even when it's totally > valid otherwise. It's not a perfect science, but we try. > > -Bill Kearney > Syndic8.com >
Sorry Everyone! I fee very bad! I did not think there was a technical problem. I have a full time developer, I thought he had done his job on programing this correctly. I will tell him to look at it again. PRBuzz.com If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
