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Despite my pleas, the number of subscribers to my radio feed is actually increasing. I don't want to force when everybody switches their subscriptions over to intertwingly, but perhaps a little good old fashioned social engineering might help...

if adritemcache^.when > date.set(14,10,2002,0,0,0) {
 local(contrast=string.mid(string.hex(255-(date.set(1,1,2003,0,0,0)-adritemcache^.when)/26700),5,2));
 add ("<description>&lt;div style=&quot;color:#" + contrast + contrast + contrast + "&quot;&gt;" + adritemcache^.text + "&lt;/div&gt;</description>")}
else {
 add ("<description>" + adritemcache^.text + "</description>")}

One problem might be that the #1 Sam Ruby on Google is at radio.weblogs.com - maybe you should replace your radio homepage w/ a redirect.

Posted by Gordon Weakliem at

Gordon, the HTML page doesn't bother me as much. It will stick around, and will contain a textual forward message at some time, with perhaps a meta tag.

What concerns me more is the subscribers. I updated the XML and coffee mug subscriptions to point to my new feed, yet the subscriptions to my radio feed continue to increase.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

I suspect people are getting the address from http://radio.weblogs.com/ , which lists you by name and gives your old address. I believe this list is auto-generated by aggreagating subscriptions of Radio users.

Meanwhile, have I mentioned recently that entity-encoded HTML is EVIL EVIL EVIL. You think your little hack is funny, but it's only a matter of time before big-name producers start including popup ads in their RSS feeds.

Posted by Mark at

Hey, I just realized that *I* am still subscribed to your old feed. Oops. My aggregator converts HTML to formatted text, though, so your little color trick wouldn't work on me. Not updating it anymore would get my attention, though, eventually.

Posted by Mark at

ooOOOooh. P o p - U p s. Now THERE's an idea...

LOL!

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Let them eat cake

Dave Winerintroduces a new XML format, guaranteed to make existing aggregators go Perhaps I may use it when all other approaches have failed. Meanwhile I have too much respect for my non-Radio readers to simply cut them off like that.Meanwhile, I stil... [more]

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Change the template on that Radio page, if you can, to contain a link meta tag to use the new feed.

&lt;link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0101679/rss.xml">

&lt;link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/index.rss">

But if you can't get to the old page because Radio expired I suppose you're out of luck.

Posted by Bill Kearney at

Bill: done.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

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Anybody remember Fade to White? Want to see it in action? Take a look here. The end of the year is quickly approaching... if your name is in here, it might be a good time to either drop or update your links. ... [more]

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Attack of the Formatting Phantom

It's amazing what a few rogue HTML tags can do when put in the wrong place.  I had attempted to post some of Jon Udell's description of InfoPath.  In the process of editing his HTML in the Radio UserLand in-browser editor, I missed a few...

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Attack of the Formatting Phantom

It's amazing what a few rogue HTML tags can do when put in the wrong place.... [more]

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Time for more trackbacks, Theoblogical should *fade to white*, dotText weblogging, oh, and Hi Sam

Sam Ruby's site seems to be picking up on my posts now that I have enabled the trackback feature in Radio.... [more]

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