The Difference Between the Links Feed and the Daily Links Posts
By Michael on Aug 30, 2006 in Stock Market
Sergey asked a good question about the links posts on the site:
Please shed some light at the following. Do you post the same links under “links for 2006-XX-XX” as in TraderMike Quick Links? In other words do I need to keep both RSS subscriptions as before?
There are two differences between them:
- The links only feed (and the recent links section on the site) only contains links about trading, stocks and a select few others in which I think people will be interested. The Daily links posts contain all of the links which I’ve added to my delicious account for the day — on any topic. So the links only RSS feed is a subset of what’s in the daily links posts.
- The daily links posts are created automatically by delicious sometime after midnight. The links feed is updated in close to real time. So if you’ll get the latest links quicker by subscribing to the links feed (or by looking at the recent links section on the site).
I hope that answers the question.
On a related note, I just changed the way the main page of the site appears. Ever since I started the automagic posting of the links the redundancy of all those links on the main page has been bothering me. I didn’t want to remove the recent links section, so instead I’ve pulled the daily links posts off of the front page. They’ll still appear in the full RSS feed for the site, and they’ll still be posted every night to the site. It’s just that they won’t appear on the main page. You can get to them via the links category, the recent posts list (in the right column) or when navigating post by post.
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1 Comment(s)
By Jason Coleman on Aug 30, 2006 | Reply
The site is looking good lately. I like the sidebar headers. IMO, the only thing this puppy needs is a new top header and background scheme. Let me know if you want some help.
I’d be happy to throw something together for you in return for you continuing to write great stuff about the market. You can see http://www.strangerstudios.com/portfolio for some of the stuff my company has done.