9/04/2004
rss for haloscan comments
Warning: If you don't read more than a couple of blogs, or if you don't care about what's in the comments at your favorite blogs, feel free to skip this post.
I use bloglines to track blogs and wikis that I'm interested in so I don't have to go to each website individually every day to see if there's anything new. Plus, it would be hard to remember what I've already seen and thus figure out what IS new and what isn't. Bloglines is just one of many aggregators that are available to do this sort of thing. Some people use it to track headlines and stories from their favorite news sources as well (Common Dreams headlines are at the bottom of my sidebar, for example).
Anyway, it seems that at many blogs, the real action happens in the comments. I've been wondering if there was a way to use bloglines to track comments as well. Early on I figured it out for my own blog using haloscan comments by subscribing to this feed: http://www.haloscan.com/members/rss.php?user=TedErnst (that's also how I generate the Recent Comments in the sidebar). It occured to me today that I could also subscribe to a feed like that for other people's blogs if they're using haloscan. How do I figure out what their user name is?
Here's what I did:
If you use an agregator, try this out on your favorite haloscan commented blog.
I use bloglines to track blogs and wikis that I'm interested in so I don't have to go to each website individually every day to see if there's anything new. Plus, it would be hard to remember what I've already seen and thus figure out what IS new and what isn't. Bloglines is just one of many aggregators that are available to do this sort of thing. Some people use it to track headlines and stories from their favorite news sources as well (Common Dreams headlines are at the bottom of my sidebar, for example).
Anyway, it seems that at many blogs, the real action happens in the comments. I've been wondering if there was a way to use bloglines to track comments as well. Early on I figured it out for my own blog using haloscan comments by subscribing to this feed: http://www.haloscan.com/members/rss.php?user=TedErnst (that's also how I generate the Recent Comments in the sidebar). It occured to me today that I could also subscribe to a feed like that for other people's blogs if they're using haloscan. How do I figure out what their user name is?
Here's what I did:
- I went to easily amazed first.
- I clicked on the first post's comments link and a javascript window popped up with just comments from that post.
- Then I clicked on the permalink for the first comment and found this: http://www.haloscan.com/comments/ashcooper/109390322326650529#132342
- The answer I'm seeking is the "ashcooper" part of that address. I then checked out by putting http://www.haloscan.com/members/rss.php?user=ashcooper into my address bar and sure enough, that's the RSS feed I'm looking for.
If you use an agregator, try this out on your favorite haloscan commented blog.