AKICILJ: LJ syndication (RSS?)

[carbonel]

Roger Ebert does movie reviews, but he's also a thoughtful and fascinating blogger. There used to be a feed from LJ that would make his blog entries show up in my LJ Friends page, but it seems to have disappeared. I get thumbnail descriptions of the movie reviews, but no blog entries anymore.

I went through the top 1,000 feeds in LJ, and only found the name "Ebert" in the Ebert Headlines entry. I don't see any feed from Ebert's blog page.

Am I totally out of luck, or is there some way to create the syndication? I have the blog bookmarked, but I know I'll forget to go there unless it shows up automagically, and LJ is the only place I look to for syndicated articles.

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[ellarien]

In Firefox, I see the little orange RSS symbol in the address bar when I go to that page. Clicking on that gets me to http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/rss.xml which I think is the URL you'd need to put into the LJ feed creator at the bottom of the syndication page, http://www.livejournal.com/syn/. In theory, if the feed already exists LJ will then point you at it; otherwise it will be created (under a name you choose) and you can friend it.

(I see that the existing feed you have friended is the atom.xml version, and the problem is that the syndication file is "too big." There's not much you can do about that except hope it gets cleared, but it looks as though the RSS version is smaller, so using that should work.)

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=151 might be helpful, too.

(This has been a driveby from friendsfriends.)

[haniaw.livejournal.com]

I have this feed but it doesn't seem to be working lately.

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/ebertsuntimes/profile (http://syndicated.livejournal.com/ebertsuntimes/profile)