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Faith and Fear in FeedDemon?

Why won't this RSS feed update in FeedDemon? I used Google Reader up until pretty recently, when I switched to FeedDemon. One thing that didn't make the transition is the RSS feed for Faith and Fear in...

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Feed me bites

How do I share images securely through an RSS feed? I have a series of images I would like to syndicate to myself, wherever I may be accessing Google Reader. I'd rather restrict "plaintext" access to...

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Who Snarks on the Adverts?

I have become addicted to a certain website (RSS feed actually) that makes snarky criticism about major advertising campaigns. Can you recommend other similar blogs? Everytime I google for keywords...

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What's a good alternative for Google Reader?

What's a good alternative for Google Reader? My employer just started blocking Google Reader (via Websense), saying that it's using up too much bandwidth. (Yeah, sounds funny to me, too.) I suspect...

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I'd like to cause newspapers to lose revenuve faster...

Which quality newspapers and other news services provide full-text RSS feeds? I'm looking for a world, national, and also sources specific to California news and politics. Alternatively, what are some...

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How do I create a RSS feed for my Amazon Web Store?

I'm trying to figure out how to create a XML / RSS feed of my Amazon web store products so I can update to Google Merchant. There doesn't seem to be many functions / plug-ins offered by AWS and their...

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How to trim a Feedburner feed?

Within the past couple of weeks, I've noticed that a lot of extra info is being displayed in the Firefox address bar when clicking through from my feed reader. How do I stop this from happening? I'm...

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Can any RSS reader read private Blogger blogs?

How can I view private Blogger blogs in any RSS reader? Is there any way? I think it's silly that I can't in Google Reader, since I use the same account to read those blogs as in Google Reader. Bonus...

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I need email updates on my blackberry from a private authenticated rss feed.

I need to be notified on my blackberry of RSS events on a secure authenticated RSS feed. These notifications can be sms texts or preferably plain text emails. They could and should filter for keywords...

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Can I undo the tide of history?

Can anyone think of a way to hack in podcast XML from Youtube? I have about 8 youtube feeds of interest, and would probably have more if I had a way of making them work with my podcast client...

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How can I redirect iTunes to a new podcast RSS feed?

My website's podcast needs to change the RSS feed URL that iTunes picks up. How can I redirect iTunes to the new feed? I don't want to lose our current subscribers during the changeover.

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How exactly do web feeds work?

How do web feeds and news aggregators work? When a new blog post goes up does the aggregator automatically pick that up when it checks for updates to the feed or does each site's feed decide how often...

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How to get my iPhone to read a password protected RSS feed?

Anyone know of a way to read password protected RSS feeds on the iPhone or iPad? Using Typepad, I have a password-protected blog where I post briefings for my boss, who is a public official. My boss...

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Alternatives to "RSS Graffiti?"

Does anyone know of a more dependable alternative to RSS Graffiti? It does all the right things, but also does some squirrelly things it shouldn't... I have a client who uses the product "RSS Graffiti"...

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Live Bookmark feed failed to load.

My live bookmarks in Firefox have suddenly stopped updating automatically (instead it says, "Live Bookmark feed failed to load.") How can I start them back up? I'm on a Mac, using OS X 10.4, and I have...

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Bloglines replacement that isn't GReader or Netvibes

Now that Bloglines is shutting down I need to find a new online feed reader for my secondary (entertainment) feeds. I already use Google Reader for work related feeds and like to keep my two streams...

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How can I tell if a feed is no longer active in Google Reader?

Is there a way to locate any feeds in Google Reader that have not been updated in x days? Often a feed I subscribe to will break or the site will move, and I won't realize for months that the feed...

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Help me subscribe to the Dean!

Can you help me find the address of the rss feed for Robert Christgau's blog, Expert Witness? I've tried fiddling around with the url, but nothing seems to work. If there really is no feed, is there...

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Interesting 'X of the day' feeds?

What interesting 'X of the day' RSS feeds do you read? Ideally all the information would be contained in the feed itself, without needing to open a web page to get the rest of the information. I've...

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Magical feed services, how do they work?

How do services that create a full-text RSS feed when a site only offers partial feeds actually work? As example, fulltextrssfeed.com.

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