[Web4lib] Changing address of RSS news feed

[David Rothman]

Randy Morin has a detailed post on moving and retiring feeds here:

http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20061110102111

Best,

-David

http://davidrothman.net



On 11/13/06, Ken Varnum <Ken.Varnum at tufts.edu> wrote:
>
> I've gone through this on my blog, RSS4Lib, which I moved to its own
> eponymous URL from a shared server...
>
> I took several steps.  First I announced it on the old blog, several
> times.  I changed all the links in the old blog templates to the new
> blog's RSS feeds -- so the links to "syndicate" on the web site as
> well as the <link rel = "alternate" ... > in the page headers pointed
> to the new RSS feed.
>
> Bloglines, where the majority of my aggregator subscribers are, has a
> nice feature that lets you claim a blog as your own (by putting text
> they provide in both the blog and the feed).  Once you've claimed two
> blogs as your own, you can call the out-of-date one a duplicate of
> the current one, and Bloglines will move all the subscribers from the
> old feed to the new one.  I don't know if other web-based aggregators
> have a similar publisher tool, but it was fairly painless.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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>
> On Nov 9, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Jean Graef wrote:
>
> > I would like to change the URL of our RSS news feeds. How can I
> > announce the change in such a way that existing subscribers will be
> > notified? I don't even know how to identify existing subscribers!
> >
> > Jean
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Jean Graef
> > The Montague Institute
> > www.montague.com
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