RSS Feeds

Did you know that, by default, Blogger creates an XML file of your blog every time you republish it that allows people to subscribe to your blog via an RSS feed?

You can subscribe to any RSS feed if you have a feed reader, or if you use My Yahoo!. I just created a new My Yahoo! page with subscriptions to all the Blogger whatsits that I know about. You need to know the URL of the XML file that houses the RSS feed, but if it's a Blogger blog, you can guess it, unless the author of the blog has changed the location of the file somehow.

For example, this is the URL of my feed:
http://lostonpurpose.blogspot.com/atom.xml

You can replace the first part of the URL with the URL of the blog you wish to get the feed for to see if there is an XML file being published for it.

In My Yahoo!, all you do is go to Add Content on a new or existing page, then click Add RSS by URL link. You paste in the link, and blammo! It creates a module that will show you the last few posts of that blog. This would allow you to create a page where you can see quickly if any of your pals have gotten off their duffs and written anything new.

Any of you LJ denizens, can you poke around in your settings and see if LJ also auto-publishes an XML file with an RSS feed of your blogs?

Update:

I have found the feeds for LJ journals. They follow this naming convention:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/data/rss

(Of course, replace exampleusername with the username of the journal you want the feed for.)

Does anyone give a rat's about this geeky shit other than me?