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My blog's been hijacked!

grrarrgh00 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:49:58 -0800

Somehow, some spammer hijacked a feed of mine that posts to my Wordpress blog. Help me diagnose what happened. I have a shared folder on Foxmarks that I've set up to automatically post to my Wordpress blog, using the FeedWordpress plugin. This morning, a reader alerted me that my blog was full of Japanese spam posts. Looking at the posts, they were somehow injected into my blog via the same pathway that I use to post from the Foxmarks folder. (Each of the posts bears the custom fields that mark a post as coming from FeedWordpress - the syndication source, syndication feed ID, etc.)

Any clue what the source of this spam might be, or how I go about diagnosing this, and then inoculating my blog against it?

need a library for text classification

chexov — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:17:29 -0800

I need to be able to automatically identify language (English, Japaneese, Russian, etc ... ) in which a particular blog-post has been written. (lang attribute might or might not be available). Few years ago I came across a library for RSS feeds that was doing roughly what I need - can not find it anymore though.

How do I create a page full of feeds?

joshnunn — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:22:19 -0800

Are there any simple sites that will help me combine a bunch of (RSS) feeds into a new page? I'm gonna be teaching my mother (and eventually other teachers) how they can blog and use wikis etc. I'll also be teaching her how quickly share links with others using del.icio.us or Google Notebook, and share interesting items from Google Reader/Bloglines. The problem is that all these things produce different feeds, and it'd be nice if she could have a page that she can set up that combines all the feeds into a single dynamic page that's constantly updating as she tags new stuff. All the different tools are useful in their own way - a blog for her own thoughts/opinions, Notebook for sharing pages and snippets, Reader for sharing other blog posts, but none have a simple way to combine together to form a 'super-feed'.

I realise there are many many ways to do this:
yahoo pipes
feeddigest
simplepie

But I need something with the simplicity of all the other tools I've mentioned. There has to be no setup, it's got to be free, and hosted. I thought I might be able to use Google Pages, or blogger, but neither let you pull in a feed and combine it with other feeds as new content.

I look forward to hearing if anyone has found something like this - I don't even know what phrases to Google with.

Experiencing technical difficulties

clubfoote — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:50:51 -0800

Please Help, I'm having problems adding a feed to my google reader. I'm trying to add this blog's feed to my google reader: http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/.

The link, "subscribe to this blog's feed" just gives me a download of "index.rdf". What am I supposed to do with this? I'm used to just clickig the rss button, selecting my reader and presto, I've got the feed.

My YouTube Favorites feed

billtron — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:53:36 -0800

I would like to display my favorite videos on youtube through some sort of feed contraption on my Bloggy McWebloggerson, but I don't use wordpress. Any suggestions? I mean, it seems like there should just exist some sort of feed that people could subscribe to. Does Yahoo Pipes offer a solution?

How to set up an RSS feed for my old-fashioned site?

clairezulkey — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:01:10 -0800

How to set up an RSS feed for my old-fashioned site? Please know that I only sort of know what I"m talking about in this post, so if my verbiage is off, don't hurt me.

Everyone is telling me that I need an RSS feed in order for my blog to keep up with readers and aggregators and whatnot. I wish I could just ignore the whole thing, especially considering the PITA that this is turning out to be.

I started my site in 2002--it was designed and edited via Dreamweaver, and my host is XO.com (the site is Zulkey.com.) My boyfriend tried to help me get an RSS set up by getting me on Dreamweaver 3, which apparently has RSS capabilites, but the problem is my four years' worth of archives.

I can go without setting up a feed for my old stuff, but I still have no idea how to do it currentl. It probably doesn't help that my site is text-driven and has one long post a day as opposed to several smaller ones.

Is there any way to set up a feed for this puppy that's not going to cause tremendous amounts of time? Would it be best to just transfer the whole thing to a new platform like Moveable Type? And if so, how can that be done? I wish I could just throw some money at the problem and buy some magical program that takes care of this for me in a relatively simple way.

If you want to tell me not to worry about it, that not having an RSS feed isn't hurting me tremendously in the long run, then I'll listen to that as well.

Thanks for reading this damn-long post.

How do I redirect an RSS feed for my podcast?

YoungAmerican — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:17:08 -0800

How do I give my domain's URL as my podcast feed, but route it to an autogenerated feed elsewhere? I'm setting up a new podcast. I'd like to use (generic example) http://www.mydomain.org/podcast.xml as my podcast feed. I'd like to have that feed refer users to my feedburner feed, which would refer to a feed automatically generated by my media host.

This is possible, right? What do I have to do, as someone who's never created an RSS feed by hand before?

My RSS feed is fried...

afx237vi — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:31:45 -0800

Why does my Wordpress RSS feed only show one post? I have a Wordpress blog that only shows 1 post in the RSS feed, despite that fact that I have specified it to show 12 posts in the Options -> Reading part of the control panel.

The feed validates, albeit with 2 warnings, but I simply can't get it to show more than one post. The "live bookmark" feature in FF also shows just one post. Curiously, the comments feed is working fine.

Best strategies for defeating sploggers who are lifting my content.

IndigoSkye — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:08:46 -0800

I've had a couple smaller splogs that gave up after a period of time. However, one splog has persisted and, through volume, is showing up higher in searches than my original posts. What can I do? It's not the lifting of the content that I have problem with, I publish an RSS feed that others pick up with a credit link back to my blog. It's the wholesale reprinting of articles without even so much as a link back to my blog.

Besides ignoring them and hoping they'll go away, what are some good strategies for getting them to stop republishing my posts? Also what ways of contacting RSS aggregation sites (like Technorati) and asking them to drop the splog feeds have worked for you?

Shrinking text in bloglines?

callmejay — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:31:32 -0800

Why does the text to a particular feed get smaller and smaller in bloglines? It looks like a vision test, where each paragraph is smaller than the previous one. Can I do anything about this? The feed in question is http://OneDrunktoAnother.blogspot.com/atom.xml

It happens for no other feed.