Yes, drop me a copy via e-mail of the template you use for the RSS feed. I suspect that it has a tweak that explicitly turns off the formatting.

I suppose RSS is more reliable, but back in my day we had to parse the raw HTML to do the aggregation.

Sent. And many thanks!

Of course you know your danger, which Lao Tzu expressed so well: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a man tech support, and you'll be helping him out for the rest of your life."

RSS feeds are evil and should be destroyed for the good of mankind. They make people lazy. "Oh gee, I stopped reading your blog because I never saw anything new on my feed reader." Gosh, sorry Miss Hilton, didn't mean to make you waste your valuable time clicking on a link in your favorites menu.

I think you can tell that my solution to bizarre "your feed isn't working" problems is to ignore them entirely. I was also the last of my circle of friends to buy an answering machine. That's just the way I am. And now no one uses answering machines now that phone companies provide voice mail as part of the standard package, so I was right all along. And I'm right about RSS! You'll see.

Andrea, I can't argue with any of that. I've never myself used a feed [well, actually I have, but I've never gone looking for one] and it took me a long time to even notice that my MT templates include RSS, and that I was providing feeds all unawares, and people were using them...

But the NewsTex people are, at least in theory, going to pay for aggregating stuff, so, hey, whatever you want!

By the way, the amazon ads have sort of fizzled after a nice start, so I'll withdraw my praise of them.

Problem fixed, I think, thanks to help from AOG!!

I normally find Ms. Harris to be a font of curmudgeonly wisdom, but I must say that I think RSS is one of the best things about weblogs. I like them so much I set up 'Nother Solent specifically to have an RSS feed for her. Really, why shouldn't I be lazy and have a computer "click through" for me? If I wanted to work at reading, I'd waste my time with Joyce instead of the Internet. RSS is also wonderful for weblogs that only publish every month or two (yes, I have a few like that on my reading list).

A idiosyncratic contributor is that I dislike "favorites" lists, which I never use. Probably a reaction to the excessive cute over use of "My"), and I use too many computers to keep them synchronized (reading weblogs via RSS on three different computers before lunch is a frequent occurence for me).

P.S. How is using RSS really different from having a magazine mailed to your house rather than having to check the newstand all the time?

Count me with AOG. RSS is an answer to Keeping Life Simple, which is what these kom-pew-tors are supposed to be doing anyway. Yes, my RSSed blogroll is enormous, but my reading requirements change by the minute, and I like keeping up with all my weird little web buddies.