Bloglines Feed Update

More on the Bloglines feed problem: I notice that some of my course feeds are now updating (though not all yet) and that some other people on the Bloglines forum thread on the issue say the same. Please look at your feeds and let me know whether they seem to be working now.

Technical Difficulties at Bloglines

As some of you have already noticed, it seems that when one subscribes to our course weblogs using Bloglines, the links to the blogs do not show notification when new entries are posted (in other words, they don’t appear in bold and there are no numbers in parenthesis to indicate the number of new entries).
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Class for 2 February; Weblog Assignment for Next Week

By now you should have successfully set up a Bloglines account and subscribed to the course weblog and your own weblog. If not, please do so right now.
In class today, I will demonstrate:

A couple of ways to find and subscribe to feeds;
How to use public feed subscriptions like Jonathan Dube’s and my Bloglines feeds;
How to [...]

About “Feeds”

I got a good question yesterday as I was introducing Bloglines. It was, “What is a ‘feed’?” Here is a brief answer from the Wikipedia entry on web feeds:
“A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. [...]