Saturday, May 03, 2003

With Apologies and Thanks Hello All, I want to send apologies to everyone who's been reading the EduResources Weblog through a news aggregator, but has not seen any postings for several months. I've been happily posting to this weblog every week, usually with two or more posts a week. Unfortunately, although the postings were publishing to my weblog, they were not getting out into the weblog's RSS feed. This major blooper was brought to my attention last week by Scott Leslie. Of course I was shocked to realize that I had been posting messages only to myself (and to the few people who were looking at the weblog directly rather than through a news feed). I've been so preoccupied with working to develop my parallel EduResources Portal that I haven't been bothered that I wasn't getting any feedback from the EduResources Weblog. As I worked to remove the blocked RSS feed I received additional help from David Mattison--thanks David and Scott. I then worked with Lawrence Lee at Radio Userland to dig further into the problem. You can read our exchanges in the RU Discussion Group by clicking on the link to this posting. Thanks Lawrence for arriving at a solution. I've certainly learned a lesson from this experience and have added a loop to my Radio User News Aggregator so that I now subscribe to my own weblog to check to be sure that I can see postings appear regularly via the RSS feed. (I will be recommending to faculty and student bloggers that they follow this procedure so that they don't make the same mistake that I made.) This experience reminds me of early tests that I did with Internet tools back in the late 80s and early 90s. We would often run our communications on computers in adjacent offices so that we could use shoutNet or sneakerNet to be sure that the tools were working! 7:52:44 AM    COMMENT []