Kottke brings to attention the news that Google is rolling back the paid-for Blogger Pro service and putting the extra features into the standard, free, Blogger/BlogSpot service. What strikes me as interesting is this means that nearly every weblog will now have an RSS feed, previously a luxury only afforded to Pro users. So using a feed reader (such as the excellent web based Bloglines I’ve been playing with today) to read your regular blogs will mean not missing out on the entry-level ones. And thus the RSS revolution is finally upon us. All praise.
(Update: RSS feeds aren’t included. Arse.)
I’m a bit thick with web technical details; but is this useful to my little stripblog, which is on a standard blogger blog?
It means you get the features previously only available to Blogger Pro people, although I notice that RSS feeds aren’t included, which kinda fucks my big vision somewhat… Must be a bandwidth thing…
Sorry, Gary! Um, probably not much but you never know – depends whether you want or need this stuff. If the RSS feed thing comes into play then you could be syndicated like Jeremy Dennis’ Weekly Strip is onto the Stripblog listing on BugPowder (and here). It’s part of a long term idea of mine…
yeah. It was the syndication bit that sounded interesting..
Tapestry Comic RSS Feeds — Slightly off-topic (you’ve probably already seen this Pete as well!) but it’s a neat list of comic strips available via RSS. I’ve started using some of them. It works really well.