New RSS 2.0 feed URL for thecave.com

Recently I mentioned the RSS feed for this site had a bug in it. The link for each blog item was incorrect. The reason this happened is because I was using Blogger.com to generate the rss.xml file and Blogger had no way of knowing the link used on the site. I finally fixed this today but it means Blogger is no longer generating the XML file. It also means the URL to the RSS feed has changed.

If you are reading this blog from an RSS-based aggregator you will need to update the URL for the feed. The new URL is:

http://www.thecave.com/rss.aspx

posted by Kirby | 10-Nov-2005 5:33 PM | comments (5)

When I subscribe to the thecave.com RSS feed using www.live.com the articles are posted with the most recent post at the bottom. Is this an issue with live.com or thecave.com?

posted by Dave | November 30 08:48 AM

The rss feed puts the most recent posting at the end of the feedback. I would assume feed readers/aggregators would sort by the publish date. My guess is live.com does not.

live.com is in beta so maybe Microsoft will add a sort by publish date in the future. Meanwhile I will search for rules on RSS and see if there is a best practice regarding the order of entries.

posted by Kirby Turner | November 30 09:45 AM

A quick look at other feeds shows the latest entry is typically at the top. I will change this for thecave.com feed.

posted by Kirby Turner | November 30 09:55 AM

Excellent.

posted by Dave | November 30 11:10 AM

Thanks for pointing out the problem.

posted by Kirby | November 30 08:32 PM

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