Important Technology People have been calling RSS a dead technology for a couple years now, but I read more content via feed than ever—292 subscriptions in Google Reader, at the moment. But because my use case doesn’t get as much wheelgrease as it used to, a lot of sites will just throw one sitewide megafeed into their <head> tag and call it done, rather than allowing users to subscribe to substreams. They do this even when their site software supports subfeeds just fine!<\/p>\n
Take a blogazine like xoJane<\/a>. It’s produced by women, and the writing there is smart and honest and very funny. I was introduced to it when my twitter idol<\/a> Julieanne<\/a> Smolinski<\/a> became a contributing editor. But while I knew I wanted to read all her columns, the only autosubscribable feed on her author page is the firehose of ALL xoJane content. That would overrun my Reader, and it would be a pain to sort out Ms. Smolinski’s posts, which are the guaranteed gold I’m after.<\/p>\n Fortunately, for certain values of “fortunately,” xoJane is built on Drupal, which some geek decided should let you subscribe to anything anywhere forever. To get a feed of a given author’s content there, you can construct a URL like this:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/rss?author=Firstname%20Lastname&title=Firstname’s%20Posts<\/p>\n And then paste that into the “subscribe” box in whatever reader you use. For instance, here’s a Julieanne Smolinski feed<\/a>, and here’s one for Kate C<\/a>, whom I have recently discovered is also great.<\/p>\n Update 2012-08-07:<\/b> WELP, xoJane broke their individual author feeds. The next-best solution, I suppose, is to follow Kate and Julieanne on their high-quality social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Important Technology People have been calling RSS a dead technology for a couple years now, but I read more content via feed than ever—292 subscriptions in Google Reader, at the moment. But because my use case doesn’t get as much wheelgrease as it used to, a lot of sites will just throw one sitewide megafeed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,141,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-neighbors","category-kat","category-obsessions","category-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}