NetNewsWire & dooce® Feed
December 4th, 2007Is being not so nice with Leopard on my MacBook Pro. Brings the machine to a crawl, especially when it spits out every single feed item of every single subscription that it fetches to Growl (even turned off!). The console.log is full of thousands of lines of information that NetNewsWire is sending needlessly to Growl. I turned off Growl for NetNewWire, but it . But more germane to the issue at hand, if you use NetNewsWire to read the dooce feeds and you’ve tried using:
http://dooce.com/feed_main/feed
You may not have success. Instead, subscribe using this:
feed://dooce.com/feed_main/feed
Let me know if that helps. It worked for me using NetNewsWire 3. Right before I shut it down and opened something else that didn’t kill my system.
If you are brave, you can grab a beta version of NetNewsWire here. This is beta software, so caveats abound. The feed works without editing in build 3.1b31.
Grrrrr. o
Tags: dooce®, not really simple syndication, software, tech support
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December 4th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
The “feed://dooce.com/feed_main/feed” works for me in NNW version 3.0/1130 but I’m still on 10.4.10.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I’ve never used much beyond iGoogle to follow blogs, until upgrading my OS. Now I use the new version of Mail to track the blogs I like. I don’t need all those advanced features.
Fortunately, it appears.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I love the clean open look of your site. Well done. Especially the suttle touches of detail make it very inviting to read and very easy to allow the entire site to be viewed and not only one section.
It’s a very user friendly site.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
As a service to blurbomat/dooce readers:
NewsFire Simple and elegant, but it cost moolah.
Vienna Free! whoo!
NetNewsWire is quite nice, simply because uses the same HTML rendering engine as Safari. The other two just parse the RSS/XML as simply as possible.
I wish I understood the mysteries of XML and how RSS works. It’s seems somewhat mystical to me. Wave a dead goat over the server and hope the feed publishes correctly.
December 5th, 2007 at 8:31 am
I totally don’t understand a word of this, but I’ve gotta think that hearing you talk like this must turn Heather on.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Okay, laugh if you must but I really cant figure out why I cant see any updates on dooce.com since last wednesday. I know you are working overtime to get things working properly and I hope you know that we all appreciate the hard work you do. Jess
December 5th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Jon,
Speaking of Leopard, have you had any MAJOR problems with your WiFi? I have been in to the Genius Bar four times and we still can’t solve it. Whenever I shut down, put it to sleep (or sometimes just when it feels like it) the MacBook Pro just disconnects and I have to restart to be able to login in to my network. My wife’s iBook (still on Tiger) works fine with the network.
Apple says it is a known problem and I am posting everywhere trying to find a solution. Saw your note about Leopard problems and thought I would see if you had the same problem.
BTW: New site is OUTSTANDING!
December 7th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I use Bloglines. The Sub with Bloglines bookmark that they recommend gets the old atom.xml that isn’t working. No problem, however, once I scrolled down on dooce.com and was curious about the teeny orange icon, and clicked on it…
What worries me is that Bloglines tells me there are +5000 subscribers to the old feed, and only 100 to the working one. I think people need your lovely wife to post a Daily Chuck with Chuck balancing a poster “this is the feed” on his nose
…
I’ll be really sad if you don’t do that now :p
December 7th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Hi Jon, I am a newbie to Mac and have a MacBook Pro. I bought it a week before the new OS came out and keep checking in with you to see how much you like it. I can upgrade for free, but am hesitant if it is going to behave like my old PC.
Should I or shouldn’t I, I guess that is my question.