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.