A friend of mine is doing his blogs on MySpace. I would love to get an RSS feed so I can read them over here on live journal. Anyone know how to do that?
A friend of mine is doing his blogs on MySpace. I would love to get an RSS feed so I can read them over here on live journal. Anyone know how to do that?
If you figure it out, let me know. It would be nice to be able to read James Gunn and Jenna Fischer’s blogs without having to make a separate trip to myspace.
Perhaps RTFM *ahem* “Read The Fine Manual.”
Everything about syndication on LJ:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqcat=syn
And I’ll do this for the Gina, since it requires a paid account. I just need the url to his blog.
Thank you greatly! Eric’s Myspace URL is:
http://www.myspace.com/13903151
I am not sure what to grab for the blogs but all of it should be linked through his main page.
To name him, since Eric is pretty ubiquitous, I have him in my phone as Eric_DRB if that helps.
Here you go!
Thank you muchly. Now to see how well it does with checking the feed.
Chances are it will be a little wacky until it’s caught up.
I would try the manual and I looked around the FAQ on myspace. But I don’t even know enough to know where to start looking, ie on myspace since that is the source, or LJ since that is where it is coming into, or somewhere else. I didn’t even know it was called syndication. I was following the RSS feed concept.
I know enough to be dangerous but not enough to actually solve anything. I always just go to someone that has it and friend from there.
I always try to read the manual/FAQ first but if you can’t find the answer, then the answer being there is kind of immaterial.
I appreciate the link to the answer. That is the type of thing I was looking for.
Manual reading takes time. Heck, finding the manual takes time since LJ doesn’t really have an accessible Help link anywhere that I’ve seen. It’s much easier to ask the people who have already taken the time to figure out LJs more advanced options than to waste time starting from scratch.
Leveraging your friends’ expertise is a very useful thing.
Since I’m a professional support person now, I have a knee-jerk reaction to any question about a feature that’s already well-documented. On almost every LiveJournal page, for instance, if you scroll down to the bottom you’ll see “Support & FAQs” which provide links to a large, well organized, and searchable library of how-to documentation. Hence the links I provided in my original response.
I’ll grant you, your Firefox one from the other day was a lot more obscure, which is why I was more than happy to comment in detail about it.
And as a product manager I spend a lot of time thinking about visibility versus demand issues. The fact of the matter is that people very rarely pay attention to the footer of a site, much less one that is usually as far down on a page as it is on LJ. So burying something there severely lessens the likelihood of anyone seeing it.
There’s also the demand issue. Most people have very little time to devote to learning new things, and really just want to get on, get what they’re looking for, and get off. For those people, even the relatively short process of finding and reading a FAQ is too much, since the other demands on their time take a higher priority.
That’s where the new term “lazyweb” comes in. For things that you’re not an expert on, don’t really have the time to become an expert on, but know that someone on your friends list probably is an expert, a ten second post on LJ will usually give you the answer you’re looking for in a much more efficient manner.
Consider it a search engine for the brains in your social network. It’s a very convenient and efficient tool to have. Most of the time you’ll get the one-sentence answer you’re looking for pretty quickly (like “it’s a paid-only feature, you can’t do it”), and sometimes you’ll get a quick summary and a pointer to the right place to look for additional info (like “you can change that in the custom config; here’s where to look for instructions on how to do that”).
There’s a company that I fell in love with a few years ago who were making a virtual customer service rep. It was an avatar and a text box, where you could ask the vRep whatever you would ask a normal rep. It would then break down the grammar of your query and match it against a database to find the appropriate answer. On the CS side, you could get reports on what questions were being asked for which there were not yet answers, so the DB would always be up to date.
It also learned context based on previous questions. You could ask it “how much does it cost?” and it would ask “how much does what cost?” You could then type in the product name you’re asking about and it would answer you. Then you could ask “where can I buy it” and it would answer you straight away, since it already knew what product you were talking about from the previous question.
And that’s just the beginning of the customizability of the thing. It was everything that a front-line CS rep could wish for to weed out all the FAQ-ish questions and let only the human-necessary ones get to the agents. And it was fun to play with as a user too, since most people would put in fun answers to commonly asked questions like “what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
NativeMinds appears to have been bought out a few times since then, and I can’t find any of their vRep demos anywhere anymore. But it was one hell of a cool product. You would have loved it!
you get friends with paid accounts to make links for you and then you add those links. Tee hee.
I didn’t expect that to happen but that is what did.
Well, since you can’t do it for yourself, that’s pretty much the only way. =)
On a completely different note, I was in Seattle this weekend, saw this in a store, and thought fondly of you.
excellent for The G, but dang, I want one too! better order it before she does, so I don’t look like a copycat..
I have seen things like this around. It helps that I haunt Hot Topic every now and then. Since it is way to small for anything I carry around, you can be an original with it. Go for it.
Thank you for the thought present. In some ways, these are the best kinds. You get all the good gift mojo without worrying if you have a place for the actual stuff.