Blended Feed
After over a year of having the News Items and Article feeds separate, today they unite forever into one blended feed.
All feeds now redirect to http://www.dannychoo.com/rss/eng/
If you are subscribed now, you don't need to do anything on your side. If you were subscribed to both then just delete one of the feeds or you will get a double dose.
I've also made many changes to the items in the feed - mainly userbility tweaks.
Lemme know if you spot any problems. I validated the feed at the W3C Validation Service and it seems valid apart from one minor atom error.
The Articles and News Items are stored in different databases and the structure is very different so I'm using PHP Simple Pie to merge the feeds which seems to work well.
Articles will remain to be for the most part original content containing photos that I take at events, of figures and around Japan.
Folks who read the feed will see News Items as a thumbnail while Articles will be the full text. Folks who want to see the full image of the News Item need to click through to the site.
Many people who were subscribed to the Article feed may not know about news items - News Items are usually updates around the otakusphere which include figure releases, anime, eroge news and photos that I take around Japan.
Some of the News Items may be ecchi and if they are then the thumbnail in the feed will be replaced with a default "Is Ecchi" thumbnail meaning that you should wait until you get home to enjoy.
News Items are usually updated a few times per day while the Articles that have more beef are updated at most once a day.
If you are a Featured Feed partner and have trouble with the new feed, try the direct feedburner feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/dannychoo_com_main_article_feed_eng
Gordonator and others seem to be displaying the feed just fine.
Photo of Gonzague from Akihabara News and I discussing some Internet strategies.
If you are interested in reading about life in Japan, seeing photos taken daily around Tokyo, like Japanese subculture (anime, manga, figures, Dollfies) then you may want to start delving into the Japan or Figure categories for a start or have a gander at all photo articles.
If you don't have much time now, maybe subscribe to the RSS Feed, Twitter Feed or join the other readers in the FaceBook Page.
Alternatively, you may want to read more about the site.
If you are a regular reader then this message will probably annoy you each time - hide it forever.
-Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe)
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Nice! All working flawlessly.
No changes here since I was using RSS feeds mainly as a warning sign new posts were made on DC.
What I mean is, I never read stuff from RSS feeds only... I always opened all articles before reading them, since I almost always make a comment.
Anyways, deleted the news feed and kept the main one. o/
frustrated hikikomori + dual core persona guidance counsellor
http://karusnote.blogspot.com
Yes, that was also my routine. I never actually reads from my rss feeds application cause I usually make comments. That only work as my "alarm clock". XDD
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Posting the warning on Puchi Blub here too so Danny sees it...
DC.com feeds on my blog went down.
Warning says: "An error has ocurred. It's possible the feed is currently offline. Try again later."
My blog is hosted on Wordpress.com even though I have my own domain.
And I'm using the main DC.com feed... just checked on the widgets:
http://www.dannychoo.com/rss/eng/ set to show 5 items at a time.
Since Acesan also said he has the same problem, and he also has a Wordpress blog, something on the blending operation might have affected it...
Informatics(ComSci-ish) student/self-taught graphic designer and illustrator
http://picchar.cerestia.net
I use wordpress too. Use this feed instead: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dannychoo_com_main_article_feed_eng
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Discovered and fixed a bug - the pubdate was not being published - my bad. All should be fixed now.
Full-time student へへ
http://www.kenleewrites.com
yeap. seems to be that way ^^
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Danny? Back from sleep now, feed still not working.
I took char's advice and changed the URL to feedburner... and it's working fine now.
But I think there's still something on the original URL that Wordpress doesn't like...
software manager
http://wawawawasuremono.com
i was still having this problem, switched back and forth between the feedburner one, only the feedburner one was working.
Student
I do the same. And it's much better to read from the site than the feeds (which are much smaller).
Student
http://bk201.wordpress.com/
Finally the feed problems are solved. It's much convenient now.
Student
http://anime.tedfox.com/
well, never had a thing for feeds, prefer to manually check out the sites i follow.
sounds cool though! hurhur
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Google Reader is a life saver when you run out of fingers to count how many blogs you check everyday... XD
Student
Or when you have some sites that rarely update so it's boring to check it everyday but you would like to know about an update as soon as posible.
銀河帝国五〇一軍团 TK/TD 8316 M.E.P.D. Police Sergeant
http://gordonator.com/
yes indeed. google reader is like the inbox for the internet. very convenient. ^^;
i agree with chaosprophet as well. it certainly saves me lots of time.
Graphic Design student | Receptionist | Otaku
http://sukidesho.blogspot.com/
It's working for me! Interesting change that you've added, Danny.
It's more covenient this way ^^
Full-time student へへ
http://www.kenleewrites.com
that explains why the number of feeds suddenly jumped ^^. good idea.
hmm... seems like i should change my habits of reading feeds once they pop up (now that you ...and... akihabara news will be *bugging* me like every hour or so. haha). i'm impatient and it's too convenient that mine is in safari... i don't like the numbers next to the feeds. >< Maybe i should practice patience and wait till it accumulates to 10 or more before reading it. ^^
Student
Nice, blended feed for both the news and articles is great, now I have less navigation to do on Google Reader:)
IT-Architect, SysAdmin, WebDesign and Coding, Virtualization (VMware + NetApp)
http://www.milkdrop.de/
Updated, works good... this SimplePie looks neat too... i should maybe play around a bit with that RSS stuff in the future, it's interesting... wish i had a bit more time for it. ><;
Artist/Flash Programmer
http://wcloudxkumo.wordpress.com/
Ahhhhh, now that's explained why my DC.com feed isn't working since last week =_=;
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
If all fails try the direct feedburner url http://feeds.feedburner.com/dannychoo_com_main_article_feed_eng
Programmer
http://knime.wordpress.com
Time to update my iGoogle Space, anyone have another RSS Feed of Figures to fill the space?
IT Developer / Technology Evangelist
http://blog.visualguytystudio.com
estan hablando de monitas ^^
omocha ni hanashimasu hahaha
Software Consultant, Business Intelligence
http://haruji.wordpress.com/
Ahh both of the feeds has been gattai'z, time to remove the news feed from my blog :)
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
http://meimi132.wordpress.com/
Hauuu... I liked having both.... oh well. Nvmind.
Programmer Trainee
http://jointsareokay.blogspot.com
Haha well I'm okay with it since whenever I see a new post on my RSS feed on my site I go straight here.
Student
Considering how the user uses the feed some ppl would like the integrated feed, some ppl will miss the separated feeds.
IMO, I put priority to read the articles and once in a while I read the news
Enginner, Photographer
http://www.animetemuco.cl
Nice! Now I see the change in my website.
otaku
http://tsuki-board.net/louki
Danny, i would like to know if you will gonna do a video-shot with gonzague again ^^ You know, like both of you did it in the past (was very cool)
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Will think about it ;-)
Hikikomori in the making
http://supermariabros.deviantart.com/
I don't have a blog so...
futur MCSE certified
it's been a while since we haven't see both of you at the same time.
that's remind me the video you two did on Akiba, you promise to make some more and .... never had a Number 2 ^^
Dany : does "the green pig from out of space" love your figures ?
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
He sure does.
futur MCSE certified
i did'nt know that, he hide that !
so, you're gonna make an other vids ? ... glad to hear that ^^
Service desk support
http://lookingglass.kokidokom.net
Hmm, had problems with the feed earlier this week but I changed over and it started working again. Haven't checked the old link for a while but I did find it odd that it suddenly stopped working.
and reading the news articles on google reader is rather convenient, esp on my iPhone. Shame that I can't post comments with it tho(actually I can but run the very high risk of the app crashing)
Student
nice, ah ideas so hard to focus on my mind, so no blog yet lol
student, part-time NEET
The merge is definitely helpful for me. I have the RSS feed as a bookmark in my Firefox bookmarks bar - pretty nifty since it gives a dropdown menu with the articles and news items as separate links.
???Confused???
Well the good thing is that it speeds up on my browser loading time...will explore more...
Student, Artist, Webdesigner and Blogger
http://anime2.kokidokom.net/
So which feed do I better subscribe to, the normal or the feedburner one(e.g. for stats)?
http://www.marvinryan.com
gah! didn't read this post, that's why I've been getting a double dose feed on my site lately. lol! will have to fix that. ^^;
student
http://www.gunpla-inochi.com
Awesome... I was wondering why your feed was down on my blog the past few days and it look me digging around for new links to fix it xD. All is working now. I'm liking the integration so I can see everything all at once ^_^