Recently, I started surfing blogs on Blog Explosion. Through this, I am logging into blogger and commenting on various people's blogs. However, when blogging in with Blogger, it points people back to this blog, as opposed to the blog where I do most of my writing, Orient Lodge

If you stumble across me that way, please stop by at Orient Lodge and say hello.

Today, I just got an email from some friends about the rebirth of Democracy Forum. The new Democracy Forum is on blogger too, so people may stumble across me that way. As with Blog Explosion, if you find me through Democracy Forum, please stop by at Orient Lodge and say hello.

New thing to play with for blogger... Getting the feed syndicated.

Blogger supports atom.xml If you log into blogger, select 'Settings' and then 'Site Feed' you can turn on the site feed. It ends up being an atom file. So, as an example, the atom feed for my site is aldon.blogsport.com/atom.xml.

Unfortunately, many of the syndication tools only take RSS. So, I've played with a new tool, FeedBurner.

What FeedBurner does, amongst other things is to convert atom feeds into RSS feeds. So, in theory, http://feeds.feedburner.com/AldonsBlog should be a valid feed for either RSS or Atom.

I'm going to kick this around a bit to see how it looks in different places.


Update:Well, using FeedBurner, I am getting my Blogger blog imported into Drupal (using the RSS feed) as well as into LiveJournal. I hope it will show up on Yahoo soon as well. I did find that I have to check SmartFeed and Convert Format Burner

It has been a while since I've written in this blog, but if people look here, and not at some of my other blogs, I thought I should highlight that my wife, Kim Hynes is running for State Representative in the 149th Assembly District of Connecticut. You can get more information at Kim Hynes for State Rep (http://kimhynes.smartcampaigns.com)