Feed Reductions

I'm seeing a trend lately. More and more of the blogs in my feed for Google Reader are limiting how much information can be read there without going to the actual blog site to see the whole post. What a drag... The whole point of the reader is to pull it all together so I can read through a post in a single place, to avoid visiting hundreds of sites. I wish they weren't doing that. If I get annoyed enough I may just stop visiting altogether. Hmmm, that sounds like a threat. :) Don't know if it matters to them or not but it's a drag from this bloggers viewpoint.

RevitCat - Tim Joins the Ranks

Tim Waldock presented a session at RTCUSA last year and posted a teaser video of his session. He's decided to write some of his experimentation and experiences on his new blog RevitCAT. You can watch the videos he's posted in his first few posts so far. He's planning on another video teaser for the next RTC event(s) assuming that acceptance is forthcoming...which I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Another blog for the reader!

Here's my own teaser for his blog, he posted this at You Tube last year too.

Blogging in the Future

I wrote something intending to post it on Tuesday next week. I occasionally get inspired to write several posts ahead of time and stack them up. Then I can coast for a few days... A fair number of bloggers read this blog too so I thought I pass along a "bug" "tip".

If you accidentally post something like I did this afternoon it will show up immediately (no bug). If you just go change the date it will look like it was posted in the future! (also no bug). With Blogger you need to "un-publish" it using the relatively new "Revert to Draft" button. That will take it back off your blog page. Unfortunately it will still probably get picked up by .rss feeds or other sites that automatically post new stuff via similar technology (maybe they just use feeds too?).

So there's no bug...except for hasty button pushing. ;) Sadly, I've done this more than a few times since I started blogging. Best advice? Go near the Publish button slowly, triple check before pushing.