As I mentioned last week, I felt it was important to start offering multiple feeds on my blog at DBVT.COM. I want to provide more options to subscribers and friends who make my blogging experience so rewarding, doing what I can to prevent them from giving my feed the snip-snip because of a weak signal-to-noise ratio.
This also seemed a good time to add another blog: Dave Burke Running in Vermont. I've been dropping references to running lately and wanted to start blogging about it, but agonized over how to go about it. I ended up adding it to stable of the DBVT.COM entertainment properties, but in a completely separate blog. More on the thought process that went into that decision another time.
The goals for the DBVT Feed updates were to 1) keep things very, very simple, 2) not require existing subscribers to make any changes, 3) consolidate similar topics into their own feeds, and 4) add the new Running in Vermont blog. I'll get into the nerdy details later, but the changes consisted of
- The site home page now displays an aggregate list of posts to my existing blog and the running blog
- A new Subscription Page lists all available feeds (shown below)
- Addition of the new running blog to the site, with sidebar and menubar links and its own theme.
DBVT feeds now consist of
- A Full Site feed (containing existing blog and running blog - everything)
- Blog feed (existing blog. No change for subscribers. Does NOT include any posts about running)
- Community Server feed (all Community Server, all the time.)
- Running blog feed
- Everyday feed (everything in existing blog except Community Server. Built with Community Server 2.1 mirroring on tag rss feed urls.)
Everything is complete, though the everyday feed is not yet available because it is being "seeded." I'll go into all the steps involved in creating multiple blog feeds, as well as why I'm seeding the mirrored blog with new posts after I turn on the feed.
