While I am still recovering from back to back colds, holiday travel to the Bay Area and a grand wedding in Canada I want to at least get the XML feeds properly restored.
I think I'm almost there but right now I don't have a lot of time, nor the resources, to test the feeds in every contraption that's available these days for pulling down XML. I have noticed that while the format for the Airbag feed is more to my liking, it no longer links to the entry. I tried wrapping the MTEntryExcerpt with a MTEntryPermalink but that just seems to break everything entirely.
If anyone has any ideas for improving the XML feed and restore the permalink please do chime in. It does appear the feed for Longboard is back to perfect health but again, you tell me.
One more thing, Tom DeLay is a uber asshat. Make a note of it.
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the feed came through via Bloglines, but the link and guid tags within the item node are empty. These tags normally have the permalink in them. I don't use MT (I'm a geek with my own homebuilt CMS), but I hope that helps.
(btw, your link in this post for the feed is not right -index.xmlt)
Where in the Bay Area, Greg?
I view all my feeds on MyYahoo. Longboards has always links the titles to my.yahoo.com, so I always just come to the site to view them. I'm not complaining, just some feedback.
I essentially use the default MT template for my feeds. I just have <$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml="1"$> inside my link tag. I think different readers use the Link tag differently, but Bloglines turns the post title into a permalink.
Cameron, I was in Walnut Creek visiting my brother and sister-in-law. Nice place but everyone drives a little slow for my taste.
Brian, your suggestion seems to have fixed the problem. If anyone is still having problems getting the feeds to work properly please let me know.
Nice. I'm originally from Antioch, just 15 mins or so away from Walnut Creek. I hear traffic has increased substantially since leaving several years ago.
Not relevent to the post, but the Longboard link to Bruce Mau begs a reference to that curmudgeon Deal Allen's annotated version of Mau's Manifesto.
Is it okay to love both Dean and Bruce? In the end, both pieces are equally funny, on-point, and cringe-worthily pandering. I still like 'em both.