Beset From All Sides

[kevin_standlee]

Some of you who read this LJ may be interested in the discussion happening on this item on SF Awards Watch, where I'm informed that WSFS is doing a bunch of things I don't think we're doing (such as claiming that the Hugo Awards represent All of Fandom), and we're certainly mis-administering the Hugo Awards, and that it's a terrible shame that we actually charge anything to vote, since Poll Taxes Are Evil, but also awful that we let the members make the nominations, because Voters Have Terrible Taste.

As I pointed out in one of my comments, I'm usually beset from all sides. I'm a bomb-throwing lunatic who would Destroy As All according to the conservatives, and a Hidebound Old Fogey according to the radicals.

If you want to comment, I'd prefer you do so over there, not here.

Comments

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Any chance you can talk with Cheryl about getting RSS working so I can add SFAW as a syndicated feed to Livejournal?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

That's funny -- I thought the RSS feed was working. I see the entries (and comments) on Bloglines through it. Bloglines says that the feed address is <http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?feed=rss2>

[bovil.livejournal.com]

The RSS is generally working, I can pull it up from my web browser.

I get the following error when I try to subscribe to the syndicated feed in LJ using that URL:
Syndication
Error retrieving content
There was an error retrieving this URL. The server may be down or the content unavailable at this time. Please verify the URL you have provided and try again.

Emcit was fine on LJ, but the short-lived blog that followed it produced the same error on LJ (and so does the Hugo Awards site).

[(Anonymous)]

In which case I'm pretty sure that it is LJ's problem, not mine. Probably it can't handle a dynamically-generated feed.

I'd happily have a look at what they are doing, but the article you provided a link to is not accessible to people who are not LJ members.

- Cheryl

[bovil.livejournal.com]

I've got a ticket open with LJ, but I'm wondering if you see anything in the server logs from 204.9.177.18 (the address of LJ's feed reader) that shows HTTP request status codes.

[(Anonymous)]

Good luck, but don't expect me to change anything to conform with what LJ wants. As far as I'm concerned, people not being able to subscribe to the feed through LJ is a Good Thing, because it stops people commenting on posts through LJ rather than on the site.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

It also prevents lots of us from following anything here directly; I only get over here when Kevin reminds me of something in *his* LJ. The "friends list" is the killer ap for this decade.

[(Anonymous)]

Not my problem. If you want to stick with a proprietary standard that won't work with the rest of the Internet then you have to accept the limitations of that standard. There are plenty of other feed-monitoring services (Bloglines, Google Reader, for example) that work just fine.

- Cheryl

[(Anonymous)]

The RSS is working. I've subscribed to it through Google Reader. Also it is the same code that the Emerald City blog used to use, and that worked OK in LJ. Obviously there is something more complex going on here, but I think it is probably an LJ issue. Email me if you have any suggestions.

- Cheryl

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

This is somewhat bizarre. LJ is successfully picking up and syndicating the feed from my WordPress blog (the blog is http://dd-b.net/ , the lj feed is http://ddb_net.livejournal.com/ ).

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Livejournal is picking up tons of WordPress blogs.