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'Running From Crazy' Documentary Airs on OWN
F. Sia Turay, Special to The Informer | 12/4/2013, 3 p.m.
The acclaimed documentary "Running from Crazy," the latest project from two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA, American Dream), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, was released theatrically Nov. 1 and will follow with a debut on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in 2014.
Hailed as one of the most distinguished families in American literature, the Hemingways have always exposed their brilliance while often living in the shadows of deep emotional struggle. Two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple's newest documentary focuses on Mariel Hemingway, a granddaughter of the legendary writer Ernest, as she explores her family's disturbing history of mental illness and suicide. As a child, Mariel grew up on the Hemingway family farm in Idaho, the same place her famous grandfather took his own life months before she was born. The youngest of the three sisters, Mariel followed her older sister Margaux into acting and modeling, while her oldest sister Muffet struggled with mental illness and drifted in and out of mental hospitals. Kopple's bold film intertwines haunting archival footage of the three Hemingway sisters with scenes from Mariel's life today as she seeks to live a rigorously healthy lifestyle to combat what appears to be a difficult family birthright. Mariel's courageous journey of introspection and reflection allows her to view her family that has shaped her life through new eyes and, for the first time, strive for peace and acceptance.
"Mariel courageously shares her family's personal story with both heart and dignity in this extraordinary film told through the powerful lens of filmmaker Barbara Kopple," said Sheri Salata, president, OWN. "Not only is it a compelling and inspiring film, but we also hope it can help encourage important conversations around the topic of mental illness and suicide prevention."
"'Running from Crazy' gave me the incredible chance to delve into the rich and complex history of the Hemingways, a family who has left such an enduring mark on literature and culture. My hope is that this film changes perceptions of the family, and also, more importantly, elicits a new compassion and understanding in how we treat those grappling with suicide or mental illness," said Kopple. "For me, it's a moving and powerful story that offers up hope and the sense that none of us are alone in our struggles."
"Mental illness is overwhelmingly misunderstood and creates fear for so many. I'm hoping 'Running From Crazy' gives people permission to share their stories and know that they are not alone. Perhaps by sharing my life with others they will feel supported in speaking out and getting help," said Hemingway.
"Running from Crazy" is produced by Cabin Creek Films for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Produced and directed by Barbara Kopple. Produced by David Cassidy. Executive producers are Barbara Kopple, Erica Forstadt, Lisa Erspamer and Oprah Winfrey.
To watch the trailer for "Running from Crazy," click here: www.oprah.com/RunningFromCrazy.


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Daisy is missing and many wanted her gone. While Avery informs Heather that Phyllis didn't want to pursue charges against Daisy, Ricky looks at a newspaper and is happy to see no one seems to care where Daisy is. However, Daniel is the first to get blamed for Daisy's disappearance, even though the circumstances surrounding the missing Genoa City vixen become more mysterious. In the end, Daniel is the main suspect. Meanwhile, Eden puts herself in harm's way when she tells Paul that Daisy has been spending a lot of time with Ricky.
Daisy's disappearance isn't the only one that has everyone in town reacting differently. Michael gets word that Abby and Carmine's cells were found and has to report that the trail went cold. Ashley is frantic over Abby's whereabouts and safety and asks for Tucker's help. Victor goes to Chloe and asks if she thinks Abby and Carmine are working together. Chloe doesn't think it's possible. In the midst of it all, Abby's just happy that the press hasn't commented on the disastrous gala. After Carmine returns from stashing the car, he begs Abby to call her family, especially since everyone thinks he's a kidnapper. Abby reminds him he tried to kidnap Chloe. As Carmine and Abby take their relationship to the next level, Victor hires Ronan and demands he find Abby's kidnapper!
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Disney World return is patient's dream come true
By Katherine Morales
A once-in-a-lifetime dream came true — twice — for a young patient at UT Southwestern.
Jessica Kath of Mesquite was born with a rare genetic disease called Diamond-Blackfan syndrome, a potentially fatal disease that rendered her body incapable of creating red blood cells.
"I was born black and blue and had to have my first blood transfusion when I was only a few days old," said Ms. Kath, now 22 years old.
|Jessica Kath (seated) is surrounded by Disney characters and (from left) her mother, Kristi Kath Davis, her cardiologist, Dr. Mark Drazner, and nurse practitioner Katie Fitzsimmons.
Her health remained fragile throughout childhood — so fragile that her mother decided to contact the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to acutely ill children.
"Ever since I can remember, I've loved Disney movies, and I'd always wanted to go to Walt Disney World," Ms. Kath said. "That was my wish, and the foundation sent me there."
She was 6 years old, but the magical trip left an indelible impression. She recalls visiting the characters, staying in accommodations at Walt Disney World reserved for kids who visit via Make-A-Wish and getting the "royal treatment" during her stay.
"It was really a perfect experience for me. I knew that if I ever got better, I was going to go back," she said.
Because of new treatments and the constant support of her family and doctors, Ms. Kath survived and thrived, going so far as to enroll in marching band during high school, "much to the horror of my pediatrician," she said. After graduation, she attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, where she happened to see an advertisement for employment at Disney World.
"It was like it was meant to be," she said. "I knew I'd always wanted to go back, and if I was hired, I could actually work there."
A few weeks later, she was on her way to Disney World, this time as a full-time employee. She continued her periodic blood transfusions, but they caused her iron levels to skyrocket, which weakened her heart muscle.
During one of her many performances as an entertainer, she collapsed, her heart unable to keep up. One of her last memories of Disney World is of being rushed out on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance — not exactly the exit she wanted to make.
"I was basically diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Thankfully, my doctors knew about UT Southwestern and cardiologists who could help me," Ms. Kath said.
Dr. Mark Drazner, a nationally recognized heart failure expert and medical director of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Program, headed up her care.
"She was not in great shape when she arrived," Dr. Drazner said. "She's such a young patient, and it was devastating to see her struggling."
UT Southwestern cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons have access to the newest diagnostic tests and procedures available. In addition, UT Southwestern is a primary testing site for new technologies such as left-ventricular assist devices (LVADs), which can be used to improve heart function for patients with congestive heart failure.
Because of Ms. Kath's diminutive stature, Dr. Drazner and his team secured a small LVAD called the HeartMate II, by Thoratec. Throughout her recovery, one lingering wish remained: to return to Disney World.
"Dr. Drazner told me that would depend on my health, but he also said that if I went back, he would go with me," she said.
She held him to that promise and in May, she got the green light to visit Disney World again. Ms. Kath and her mother, Kristi Kath Davis, drove to Florida. Dr. Drazner and nurse practitioner Katie Fitzsimmons flew out to meet them.
"Jessica is a remarkable person," Dr. Drazner said. "To see someone so young and so gravely ill able to travel and live her life again is unbelievably gratifying."
But, she said, her second wish wouldn't have come true without the support of her surgeons and the health care team at UT Southwestern.
"I'm so thankful for them, especially when I think about everything they have done to get me to where I am," Ms. Kath said. "It sounds funny to say, but they are really my heroes."
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Style Watch: Demi Lovato Rocks Blue Hair Just In Time For Halloween
Demi Lovato has taken a page out of Katy Perry's playbook and dyed her hair varying shades of blue. We spotted "The X Factor" judge at ABC studios after appearing on Katie Couric's TV Show in New York City yesterday.
She tweeted her new look on Thursday with the caption: "Blue hurr, don't curr."
The star is definitely a big fan of Halloween. Earlier this week, she posted images of her funky manicure, which included eyeballs, Frankenstein and skulls on her fingernails.
The singer/actress also uploaded photos of what appeared to be ghoulish decorations in her house. "I guess you could say I'm excited for Halloween...." she said of the creepy skeleton images.
Lovato has been nominated for a YouTube Music Award - "Video Of The Year" for "Heart Attack." The first-annual event will take place in New York City on Sunday, Nov. 3.


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Now that the annual barrage of yuletide tunes is almost over, the time has come to raise the question: What is the worst Christmas song ever recorded? (Those dogs barking Jingle Bells?)
The answer is a matter of opinion, of course, but Jennifer Rutherford, a California collector of terrible holiday songs (she owns more than 600), bestows the dishonor on Christmas Shoes, released in 2000 by the band NewSong. It's based on an urban legend about a boy who lacks the money to buy a pair of shoes for his dying mother.
The narrator supplies the extra cash so the boy can purchase the footwear for his mother to don " if Mama meets Jesus tonight."
The "audience (for Christmas Shoes) is intended to actually like it and find it touching," Rutherford said. " However, in most people, it provokes a divine rage, gasps of horror and a brilliant rant by (comedian) Patton Oswalt."


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I'm pretty sure I heard that song while watching Kung Pow: Enter The Fist with my dad.
But what does the fox say?…….sorry, that needed to asked.
That Marcus is a real trouble-maker, isn't he? And then Beni and Dill join the mini-rebellion. Don't you kids realize that Timmy Fretwork is more than just another musician to Miss Bliss?!
Stella S – Eweee, eewwweeee, ywee. Kung Pow is worth a few minutes every time it's on.
Speaking of a phone-in show with yelling people, I had to listen to a very loud talk show while riding 40+ miles to the Milwaukee airport in a limo. I asked the driver please to turn it down, and he did, maybe 100th of a decibel. One of the highlights of the show came when a man told how his daughter urged him to recycle some trash he was throwing out. He told her that if she said that again, he'd recycle a tree branch on her backside. Charming. I wrote the limo company about this, but didn't name the driver – didn't want to get him in trouble. I do hope they did something about this.
interesting I'm sure.
Haha little children are adorable.
And he's right, goats do go 'meeeh' The cd lies!
I was just thinking that. The similarity is astounding.
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MADISON, Wis. -- A judge on Monday denied a temporary restraining order in Madison city officials' efforts to clear the Occupy Madison site on the near east side.
The judge's ruling said the site in the 800 block of East Washington Avenue must be cleared by noon Wednesday.
Occupy residents have set up a temporary tent city at the site, and a temporary restraining order could have allowed them to stay put at least a little while longer. While it began as a protest, the site ultimately became a tent city made up primarily of homeless people.
"I think it's some pretty good people out here," said Wesley, a homeless man living at the site. "(There are) a couple bad ones, too, but most of them are good. Everybody out here is just trying to survive."
City officials have sought to clear the site as the location is slated for redevelopment.
At Monday's court hearing, William Turner, attorney for Occupy Madison, argued that the Occupy site is a public forum for First Amendment purposes.
"The part of the argument we're trying to make here is that the right exists independent of the permit. The constitution doesn't depend on any permit between the city and the state -- that's ridiculous," Turner said.
But Judge Amy Smith disagreed.
"The First Amendment does not guarantee the right to communicate one's views at all times and at all places or in any manner that person might desire to make," Smith said.
With the restraining order denied, it's unclear what will become of Occupy Madison's lawsuit against the city.
"If they move the stuff away (from the Occupy site), we're not going to move it back. That's ridiculous," Turner said. "To what extent we will choose to continue pursuing this with the city is kind of an open question."
The late decision Monday led to leniency from law enforcement, who will allow people to stay one more night at the Occupy site.
"The plan will be tomorrow at noon. We'll go down there and check. There was a lot of compliance already for today, so we're hoping that continues for tomorrow," said Capt. Carl Gloede, of the Madison Police Department.
Officials with Porchlight, a Madison homeless shelter provider, said that they plan to open more space for the former occupants of the site who are being displaced. They said they support the closure of the site, citing a lack of services.
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- A lot of signs EVERYWHERE with so many rules, create an unfriendly atmosphere. For example, can't use pool cues outside reception hours, have to go to reception and leave a deposit. - No food/drink in rooms is annoying - ROOM KEY OPENS EVERYONE'S ROOM. MAJOR SECURITY RISK. - At the end of the day, it was a bed to sleep on and did the job.
Thank you for your feedback, we will look at changing our signs so perhaps more friendly, the reason for deposit on cue sticks as we used to have 10 now we have 2 due to damage also people spill and stain linen so to make it nice for everyone we perfer to have you eat in kitchen or tv room cleaning up after oneself, so hope your travels go well and thank you for staying
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Whilst the room itself was clean, it was cramped and very small, and that was for two people staying in a room meant to fit three people. Our mattresses were obviously very well-worn, with both sinking in the middle. The bathrooms needed upkeep; at the end of the day all you could smell was sewerage, and the toilets and floors required more regular cleaning. As for the kitchen...that was absolutely disgusting. We opted to eat out instead of cook there. I would not stay here again.
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Staff were very friendly and helpful. But nothing else really impressed me. It was cold and dank, bathrooms weren't that great, kitchen was messy and the common areas not very welcoming. When we stripped our bed in the morning the pillows were disgustingly stained. TV was so dated and didn't work. Possibly one of the worst rooms I've stayed in.
Hi. Thank you for your feedback it helps us improve, it is winter and it is cold we try to heat as much as we can the common rooms usually are warm we will check this maybe heaters are not on correctly, kitchen is cleaned everyday but other guests need to clean up after themselves so we can only do our best, Our rooms are very clean and most guests have found them extremely good for price. This morning we had a guest who stayed in your room and were commenting on how clean and great everything was. We thank you for your comments and hope you have safe travel.
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Havelock North resident Greg Curran has beaten more than 200 entries to win the Magpies Legends competition.
Curran accurately picked 13 out of 15 legendary players who have been selected by the union to be inducted as Legends.
A Hawke's Bay rugby fan of about 30 years, he said the likes of George Nepia, Kel Tremain and Maurice Brownlie had been easy picks.
However, he was not sure who his two incorrect picks were.
"It just sort of made sense. They all added up as in points scored, games played, all that sort of thing."
Curran didn't spend a "hell of a lot" of time mulling over his decisions.
"A couple of days thinking about it, I looked on the website, looked at the stats and most of it made sense but there was a couple that could have gone either way."
Greg and his wife, Janine, will be attending tomorrow night's function, to be held at the Rodney Green Event Centre at McLean Park, as well as receiving a dozen bottles of wine and 2013 season tickets.
Schoolboy Zac Southwick, of Clive, who spent a good part of a day researching Hawke's Bay rugby's history, also deserves mention.
This year's squad members will deliver a signed 2013 Magpies jersey to the 12-year-old at Hastings Boys' High School in August/September.
While the Year 9 pupil didn't come close to naming the right XV, his homework yielded names few included, such as Hiroa Tiopira, the first All Black from Hawke's Bay.
"I went to the Hawke's Bay rugby website and found some factfiles, so his [Tiopira's] name came up. I don't think anybody knew much about him," a laughing Zac replied when asked if he had consulted anyone for help.
Zac, an E grade Hastings Boys' player, said he wasn't disappointed at not winning and was looking forward to receiving his jersey.


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September's issue of the Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics reviews the association between eosinophilic esophagitis and celiac disease.
The relationship between eosinophilic esophagitis and celiac disease remains controversial, with studies yielding varied results.
Dr Lucendo and colleagues from Spain systematically reviewed the evidence of a possible association between both diseases.
Electronic searches were performed with keywords relating to eosinophilic esophagitis and celiac disease in the MEDLINE, EMBASE and SCOPUS databases.
Summary estimates were calculated.
The team used a random-effects model depending on heterogeneity (I2).
Publication bias was assessed with the aid of funnel plot analysis, along with the BeggMazumdar, Harbord and Egger tests.
The researchers identified 197 references, of which 30 were included in the quantitative summary, with most of these presenting methodological inconsistencies.
Significant publication bias in favour of short studies reporting positive associations between both diseases was documented.
The team found that the prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis in celiac disease ranged from 0% to 11%.
Prevalence of celiac disease in eosinophilic esophagitis varied between 0.2% and 57%.
The research team observed that 1 high-quality, prospective, randomly selected, population-based study documented a 1% prevalence of celiac disease, with no patients presenting eosinophilic esophagitis.
Clinical and methodological heterogeneity hindered the performance of quantitative summaries for prevalence data.
The team noted that a gluten-free diet was effective in achieving histological remission of eosinophilic esophagitis in 32% of celiac patients, which was similar to that expected for wheat elimination in eosinophilic esophagitis patients.
Dr Lucendo's team comments, "While a lack of valid studies prevents us from completely ruling out a true association between eosinophilic esophagitis and celiac disease, currently available evidence does not support this hypothesis."
"Indeed, the only epidemiological study with sufficient validity points to the independence of both diseases."
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I need some help with mathematical induction. It's driving me insane.
Use mathematical induction to prove that:
Basis step: Prove 1 exists in S.
n = 1 LHS =
So 1 exists in S
Inductive step:
Assume k exists in S. We must prove k+1 exists in S
So assume
After this i just get lost, i think i have a problem when trying to perform arithmetic on it. Any help would be much appreciated.
I also have another question:
Find a fourth order polynomial with integer coefficients for which is a root.
SO we have
any help would be much appreciated!
For the second part of your question, you've got the right idea, but you need to be careful doing the algebra:
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GHSA's Annual Meeting is fast approaching. This year's gathering occurs September 7-10 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The meeting theme is "Turning Knowledge into Action," bringing key researchers together with state and federal officials to discuss how to turn research into successful state highway safety programs.
Confirmed general session speakers include Adrian Lund, President, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety; Susan Ferguson, President of Ferguson International, LLC; Robyn Robertson, President and CEO of Traffic Injury Research Foundation; and Pete Rahn, President of AASHTO. New this year will be a general session focusing on the next highway reauthorization. Top officials from AAMVA, AASHTO, MADD and the General Accountability Office will participate.
Sixteen workshops are scheduled and will include the latest research and programmatic approaches to a variety of highway safety challenges. Evening social functions will allow for networking and seeing old friends. Note that both evening functions will be outdoors, so casual (and cool) attire is appropriate.
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New (March 2014) Mac mini OSX Mavericks
Added Crucial M500 240G
Drive recognised by disk utility, able to format, mount and transfer files :-)
However core storage operations (diskutility cs create or convert) consistently fail, as to do attempts to install the OS.
Any ideas most welcome ... More details available if anyone can help.
Update - sweated blood to update firmware (no cd drive) [http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi Sea7spray,
I am sorry that you are having issues with this drive. How is the drive connected? Would you be able to move it into another computer temporarily to see if this issue is resolved? When you tried to do the install was it connected externally or internally? If it was installed internally, can you try connecting it externally, and vise versa? Thanks in advance.
1. Thanks Crcuial for changing my first drive for me ... but was it ever a dud ?
2. Hope this helps someone else ...
(a) Final solution - mount the crucial drive in the site of the original hard drive and the original as the spare. Everything else is well documented (create corestorage etc). [Despite my Mac system report identifying a 6Gig connection speed in the spare position].
(b) What I found does not work.
- SSD in empty slot
- [proper orientation as above but trying to push the technology even further]
--raid 0 hard drive and USB 3 drive then fusion this with SSD
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Willis P. Whichard, dean of Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, delivered the keynote address at a Naturalization and Granting of U.S. Citizenship ceremony at the United States District Court in Raleigh on Friday, May 13. Whichard is a former state Supreme Court justice and the only North Carolinian in the history of the state to serve in both houses of the Legislature and on both of the state's appellate courts. Becoming a U.S. citizen implies privileges, as well as responsibilities, Whichard noted. "We invite you to share in both the opportunity and the governance. The opportunity is not automatic; it is instead, the product of hard work, and we encourage you to cultivate that discipline." Whichard also encouraged the new citizens to assume roles of service in their communities. "We hope you will be part of what Alexander Hamilton called 'the American experiment in democratic government' by accepting the responsibility for the public life of the times and places in which you will live and work and rear your families," he said. President Grover Cleveland performed one of the most courageous acts of his presidency when he vetoed a bill that would greatly restrict the flow of immigration into the United States, Whichard added. "We are all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants," he said. "May you wear the truly superior title of citizen proudly." Richard Corpening, of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, presented the candidates for naturalization and citizenship and the Honorable W. Earl Britt, Senior U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, administered the Oath of Allegiance. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, Whichard was elected to the state Supreme Court in 1986 and served until 1998. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1970-1974 and served as a North Carolina senator from 1974-1980. Whichard also served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1980-1986, and was a practicing attorney with the Durham law firm of Powe, Porter, Alphin and Whichard. He became dean of the Norman Adrian Wiggin School of Law in 1999. In 2002, Whichard was presented the Christopher Crittenden Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in history by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. He received the Distinguished Service Medal from the University of North Carolina in 2004 and was elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation that same year. Whichard earned both a Master of Laws (LL.M) and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from the University of Virginia.
Photo Copy: Willis P. Whichard, dean of the Campbell University School of Law, and Judge W. Earl Britt, Senior U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, welcomed new citizens at a Naturalization and Granting of U.S. Citizenship ceremony at the U.S. District Court in Raleigh. Whichard delivered the keynote address.


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3. How to use FeedburnerUPDATE: for the impatient, here are 12 quick steps to take to use Feedburner for your blog; you can refer to this post as a reference guide.
This part 3 is an introductory guide, part review part practical tutorial, to the fab service Feedburner, focusing mainly on Blogger users but with info of interest to users of other blogging platforms too - with a basic intro to Feedburner, an overview of its services and howtos and tips on using Feedburner and getting the most out of it. (In part 1 of this introductory feeds basics 101 series I covered the basics about feeds, and in part 2 how to activate and publicise (in a basic way) your blog feed. I know this part 3 is rather behind!)
This part 3 blog post is mainly aimed at those who already know what feeds are, e.g. through reading parts 1 and 2 (although I do include a summary below).
What's Feedburner?Feedburner is a superb service for doing all sorts of clever things with feeds, particularly tracking statistics - notably, the number of people who "subscribe" to your blog. That all sounds a bit vague but bear with me, you'll see what I mean later.
Most of Feedburner's services are currently free, and they've been owned since mid-2007 by Google, who have made even more Feedburner features free. (Full disclosure: they asked me to become a Feedburner Community Expert (unpaid volunteer in their Feedburner help group) a couple of months ago, but I drafted most of this post well before then, as I've been a Feedburner fan ever since I learned about their service.)
My personal view is, if you have a feed, you really should use Feedburner - it just keeps on getting better and better, rolling out more and more features and enhancements, and they were doing that even before the Google acquisition. I've not heard of any similar service that competes with it, but frankly even if there was one I'd still stick with Feedburner, myself.
Recap / summary on feeds generallyJust to recap on web feeds generally (particularly for readers who haven't read parts 1 and 2).
You decide you want to "syndicate" your blog or news site - i.e. to publish your blog posts or stories / articles in such a way that people won't have to keep visiting your blog or site to check for updates, but can just "subscribe" to your site's news feed or web feed.
That way, your content is "fed" to them (along with updates from any other blogs and news sites they subscribe to), so that they can view all the new content from all the sources they've subscribed to, pretty much as it comes out, but from one single place that's convenient for the user - whether that's their newsfeed reader or "feed aggregator" software on their computer, or alternatively a Website which specialises in collecting feeds from different blogs and news sites and pulling them together into one Webpage that they can read online. People can even offer feeds by email. (Feeds can be opened in browsers too, and in most modern browsers will display fine, but trying to go to a feed URL in earlier browsers produces a bunch of code which might cause a bit of a shock to the system.)
All this is possible by using a standard format known as RSS (hence the term "RSS feeds"). Another commonly used standard for newsfeeds is Atom, but it doesn't seem as well known to the general populace, and in fact "RSS feed" is often used to mean "newsfeed" generally.
To produce a feed, you need to set things up with your blogging software (such as WordPress or Blogger) so that whenever you publish a new post, your blogging software will update your feed according to how you've set it up on your blogging platform - i.e. it automatically creates a separate version of your changed main blog page as a separate feed file, but reformatted into the appropriate form for feeds such as Atom or RSS (or both, in the case of Blogger and other blogging platforms which produce more than one feed file behind the scenes).
That feed could contain your latest 5 posts, your latest 10 posts etc; and it could contain the full text of your posts, or just a summary - it depends on how you've set the syndication feed up behind the scenes with your blogging software (with Blogger, it's the Settings, Site Feed bit of the Dashboard; with WordPress, go to Settings on the right, then the Reading sub-tab).
Now if you're happy to stick with the basic feed that's produced natively by your blogging platform, all you need to do is to switch on or enable your feed, tweak its basic settings, and publicise its Web address or URL (which I covered in more detail in part 2 ).
But if you want your feed to be more useful and user-friendly both for you and your subscribers, you really should consider using Feedburner. Those who've signed up for the free Google Webmaster Central service for webmasters can get through it figures for who's subscribed to their feed via Google services like Google Reader and the personalised Google homepage iGoogle; but if you want stats for subscribers who use other feedreader services like Bloglines or Newsgator, Feedburner is the best way to get the subscriber numbers all in one place. And it has other uses too, as I'll come to.
Why use Feedburner?In terms of pros and cons, there are tons of benefits and advantages you can get from using Feedburner, and no disadvantages that I can see, given that it's free. In my experience their staff have always been amazingly smart, knowledgeable, friendly, funny and helpful, unlike some other Web 2.0 services I could name, but politely won't - I sure hope getting together with Google won't change them (I love their sense of humour, you can see it on their various website pages and even on your account pages when you log in). [Note: I drafted that paragraph before I was asked to become a Feedburner Community Expert, and no I hadn't shown it to anyone!]
As I said before, to me it's a total no brainer. Feedburner give their own overview plus specific reasons why bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers should use their service. For instance Feedburner offers a feature called "SmartFeed" which provides your feed in whatever format, RSS or Atom, a user's feed reader can handle.
In my view, the key advantages of Feedburner are these:
- traffic analysis / analytics for your feed - feed subscriber and usage statistics / metrics; you can even use Feedburner to track visitors to your blog or site, not just your feed, and get some useful info on most popular / top pages. etc
- user-friendliness through browser-friendliness and reader-friendliness
- providing email subscriptions to your blog - which are also included in your statistics
- publicising your blog - loads of tools to help here
- Feedflare to enhance your feed and blog both (I'll explain later)
- future possibility of making money through ads in your Feedburner feeds.
Browser-friendlinessAs mentioned in part 1, given the way that feed icons / links are commonly shown on Webpages, if a visitor is not familiar with feeds (which will be most non-techies), then they're liable to leftclick on the link, which opens up the feed in their browser - and in many browsers feed files will just look like gobbledygook, which some may find confusing, scary or just annoying.
Feedburner feeds have a feature called "Browser-friendly", which means that if a user opens the feed link in their browser (even old browsers), it provides a much nicer view, almost like a normal webpage, and it furthermore offers the user the chance to easily subscribe to the feed via the main popular feed readers or aggregators like Newsgator, My Yahoo, iGoogle homepage or Google Reader etc (see the section outlined in red in the pic below, which Feedburner adds to the view of your feed in a browser).
Stats - how to track users who download your feedMost bloggers like looking at their statistics. Many have hit counters to see how many visitors they've had and where they came from, etc (I use Statcounter, and also Google Analytics). So, for fans of web analytics, Feedburner is essential as most blogging platforms don't provide a built-in way to track hits to their native feeds.
A hit counter, which you can add to your blog, will tot up visits to your blog web pages (including individual post or item pages if it's been set up that way). But it won't track how many people have downloaded your feed, or how many have clicked on items in your feed to go to the original post's web page. Feedburner will keep count of hits to your feed, as long as the user has accessed your feed via a Feedburner feed URL (instead of the native feed URL).
So, when you login to Feedburner you can see how many people have subscribed to your Feedburner feed (the figure can vary a lot as it goes by the number of times feed readers have fetched your feed, not the absolute number of people who've added your feed to their reader), and even what particular items they've clicked on, etc.
If people subscribe direct to your blog's native feed (e.g. in Blogger the http://yoururl/atom.xml or http://yoururl.com/feeds/posts/default feed URL), you didn't use to be able to track that, so you had no way of knowing how many direct subscribers you had. However, if you use Blogger, by redirecting your native Blogger feed to Feedburner as mentioned in part 2, you can now track all your subscribers - even those who try to subscribe to the direct atom.xml etc address will be redirected to your Feedburner feed. (With other blogging platforms, I'm not sure how you can track users who subscribe to your blog's native feed direct rather than your Feedburner feed.)
Also, if you wish you can use Feedburner to track visitors to your underlying blog or website, not just number of feed subscribers.
Offer your readers e-mail subscriptionsWith Feedburner, you can even allow people to get email subscriptions to your feed, i.e. to receive your new posts by ordinary email, if you wish - with a choice of email subs via Feedblitz (see my posts on Feedblitz), or via Feedburner themselves, or Rmail - and Feedburner will track those subs too. Feedblitz is currently more powerful e.g. sending subscribers emails only weekly instead of daily, if you prefer.
More flexibility to allow users to consume their media in whatever way they choose is always a good thing, in my book. And in fact this very blog has a few subscribers who subscribe to its feed via email (about 8% subscribe via Feedblitz).
Gimme Feedburner - how do you get a Feedburner feed, i.e. burn your feed, anyway?To use Feedburner you "burn" your feed. This involves giving Feedburner your feed URL, and they will then take your original feed and produce a new special Feedburner feed out of it, with its own unique web address or URL. Your original source feed still exists and is left untouched. In other words:
- Your "burn" your feed by giving Feedburner your feed URL (if you don't know your feed URL it may be able to figure it out from your blog URL).
- It then takes your feed and transforms it into a different, more useful kind of feed, a special Feedburner feed with a different unique URL of its own (http://feeds.feedburner.com/somethingorother-uniquetoyou), which is served out of Feedburner's own servers.
- You then note down your Feedburner feed URL and make use of the URL in various ways e.g. publicise it on your blog.
I repeat, your original blog feed still exists, and is still necessary, as it's what the Feedburner feed is based on - they just convert it to a new whizzy (separate) feed which you can then deploy. So you mustn't turn off the outputting of your blog's native feed, unless of course you deliberately want to for privacy etc reasons. In which case you probably won't be wanting to burn a Feedburner feed anyway.
How to burn your feed - step by stepIf you prefer videos watch the official Feedburner video (a little out of date now as they've added to their features, but basically still good) for a howto on burning your feed, but it's really very straightforward.
Here's a step by step:
- On the Feedburner front page, enter your feed URL or, if you don't know it, blog or site URL in the box (how to find out your feed URL for MySpace, note: for self-hosted WordPress blogs it's best to just use the FeedSmith plugin) - you can leave out the "http://":
- Then, making sure "I am a podcaster" is not ticked (unless of course you are a podcaster), hit Next. (If you want to podcast your feed, see this introduction to podcasting).
- Feedburner will "auto-discover" your feed, and give you a choice of feeds based on your blog's auto-discovery settings - some blogging software like Blogger and WordPress will produce both Atom and RSS versions (outlined in red below).
If it's available pick Atom, then hit Next (but don't worry if RSS is the only option):
- You'll see something like this:
Feed address: if you don't like their suggested feed address, you can change the ending of the Feedburner feed address, the bit that's in the text box outlined in red above (blogspot/CWhy in the pic above) to a name of your own choice - if it's not already taken. For instance, my main Feedburner feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ConsumingExperience. (I also have other feeds, at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ConsumingExperienceFull for my full feed, for instance). You can even change the ending via Edit Feed Details after you're logged in in future, though I wouldn't recommend it once you've had subscribers who are using the original feed URL.
Create an account: self-explanatory, if you're new to Feedburner you have to create an account with them to access your stats etc later.
Then click "Activate Feed", and that's it.
The feed URL they've given or you've chosen, http://feeds.feedburner.com/WHATEVER, is now the address or URL of your crisply burned new Feedburner feed, and as mentioned above you can redirect Blogger to that feed address (and should, if you're using Blogger), add the Feedburner URL link to your sidebar, etc etc, as you wish. So make a note of that feed URL.
- Now you'll see something like this, just read it and click Next:
- You may as well click Next and then tick all the boxes shown below (clickthroughs for stats, item enclosure downloads for podcast downloads, and Feedburner Stats Pro, currently - Feedburner Pro is now mostly free thanks to Google, so you've nothing to lose):
- Then click Next, and you'll see lots of helpful options from Feedburner to help you redirect your blog feed to your new Feedburner feed, add a chicklet to your blog sidebar and offer blog updates via email - not just for Blogger but also for users of TypePad, WordPress, and MySpace; click the suggestions for your own blogging software and try 'em out (particularly redirection and offering email updates):
- If you've already got a Feedburner account, you can login and burn a new feed via your My Feeds page using the box at the bottom of your list of feeds. Whatever you prefer, really. Obviously, in that case it won't ask you to create a Feedburner account:
What next? How to set up Feedburner optionsThere are many settings relating to what useful things Feedburner can do for you, grouped under the Analyze, Optimize, Publicize etc tabs.
One could write a whole book just on the many and varied possible uses of Feedburner feeds (and I would if someone were to want to commission one, ahem!), but I'll just touch on a few key features here and make some initial suggestions to get you started, if you have no particular preferences (you can always change them later, and should, to whatever suits your own situation best).
So, login to Feedburner, and in My Feeds click the name of the feed you want to tinker with.
Check out the various options and tabs. They include ways to publicise and optimise your feed, and maybe even make money from it too.
I'll walk you through the tabs now.
Analyze tab - statisticsThis is the section where you can see how many (though not which) people subscribe to your Feedburner feed, and what readers they use, etc. The stats are pretty self-explanatory and comprehensive. You can find more detailed help on the Analyze tab. Some tips:
Feedburner Stats Pro - first thing, under Services, bottom left, you should go to Feedburner Stats Pro and tick all the empty boxes (if you tick "Exclude visits from this computer" too, then your own visits to your own site won't be counted as hits, which will provide you with more accurate statistics should you choose to use that Feedburner tracking service). That'll get Feedburner to track more things, which again are self-explanatory.
Now back to the top of the Analyze tab page.
Feed stats show subscribers, views and click throughs from your feed, both total and for individual posts. You can see info on your subscribers - numbers and what feed readers or aggregators they use, including email subs, or browsers, and even which search engines' bots have fetched your feed. Note that the "Subscribers" stats are for the number of times that particular Feedburner feed has been checked or fetched by readers/aggregators within the last day, 7 days or other period you select from the dropdown - it's not the same as exactly how many humans have subscribed to your blog, though it should give you a good idea of that number as it's based on the number of times your feed's been requested in a 24-hour period
"Live hits" show what time and where your last 25 "live hits" i.e. hits to your feed were, feed readers used (user agent), and countries of origin - i.e. when someone loads your feed into their reader or browser or a bot requests your feed.
"Item use" is info on which were the most popular items viewed by your subscribers and the number of click throughs on them.
Site stats are available free, as well as feed stats (see the Feedburner site stats overview and FAQ). If you activate site stats (as explained below), Feedburner will give you helpful statistics on the visits to the most popular individual post or item webpages on your blog or site, not just your feed (with trends e.g. up 10% or down 3% etc) as well as overall figures on visits and page views. It also shows you the top 20 incoming traffic sources i.e. where visitors to your blog came from (plus top search engine sources, top search terms as well as top referring domains linking to your site), and even top 10 outgoing links clicked and how many clicks each had. There's also info on visitors like numbers, browsers used, top cities they came from, even top languages, operating systems and screen resolutions, all presented in a very user-friendly way.
And you can of course have site stats from Feedburner in addition to your normal blog traffic hit counters or trackers if you wish. So it's up to you whether you want to use Feedburner site stats, or alternative web analytics services provided by e.g. Google Analytics (which is to be integrated properly with Blogger soon - Google had acquired Measure Map in 2006), or Statcounter, etc.
To activate site stats, scroll to the bottom of the Analyze tab - it's in the Feedburner Stats PRO section (which you'll have activated if you followed my suggestions earlier after burning your feed), tick the boxes if you haven't already and get the code to paste in your blog template following the instructions for your blogging software. If you already have FeedFlare (covered below), just make sure that the "For my site, track" box for Visitors etc is ticked and Save, as the FeedFlare code will do double duty so you don't need to add any extra code to your blog.
I'll come to Headline Animator later.
Optimize tabYou can get detailed help on the Optimize tab. Here are the key points.
- Make sure BrowserFriendly is ticked (it should be anyway), otherwise people who try to open your feed URL in some browsers will get a horrid scary offputting screen. Click it and check the options, make sure all Appearance Options are ticked. Click "More subscription options" and tick the boxes there if you want to allow your visitors to subscribe via more services than the standard ones already ticked. I won't go into Content options here, you can just leave it as the default. Don't forget to Save!
- SmartCast is just for podcasters, ignore it if you're not podcasting (intro to podcasting); similarly Tickerize is for financial feeds/podcasts.
- SmartFeed - make sure this is ticked and active. As mentioned above that makes your feed work with all kinds of readers. It doesn't matter whether your blogging platform produces your feed in RSS or Atom format - with SmartFeed turned on, Feedburner cleverly generates a feed in whatever format the reader prefers, so you don't need to worry about any standards wars, just have a single Feedburner feed and that's it. But don't touch Convert Format Burner unless you know what it's for and it's deliberate!
- FeedFlare - I'll cover this later.
- Link Splicer, Photo Splicer and Geotag are self-explanatory, and optional - you can automatically add your latest del.icio.us or other social bookmarking links or your photos from Flickr, Buzznet or Webshots to your feeds, even if they're not added to your blog's Webpages. Just remember to click Activate when done.
- Feed Image Burner - self-explanatory, you can add your own pic or logo to your feed (see mine, top right when you click this ACE feed link). By default that pic will be the Feedburner logo, unless you choose your own custom image URL (upload your own pic to a free file hosting service like Fileden, then enter the resulting link to the uploaded file in Feed Image Burner). One gotcha - if you choose Creative Commons (see later), and an image like the Feedburner logo or your own image, the latter will override and you won't see a CC image in your feed. There can be only one. (Image in your feed, that is. Sorry, Highlander reference!)
- Title/Description Burner - again self-explanatory, to make your feed title etc more descriptive if your native source feed isn't good enough - check it out to see the options.
- Convert Format Burner - usually leave this to the default.
- Summary Burner - remember, your blogging platform puts out a feed, and you then give that feed URL to Feedburner to process it further. If you use the summary burner, Feedburner takes your original blog feed and then cuts it down according to your settings, so that those subscribing to your Feedburner feed URL will only get the cut down version. I've previously discussed in more detail how to use summary burner. You could also set your feed to output only a summary at the source feed end (with WordPress it's in the Settings, Reading tab), but of course that means that Feedburner will never get the full feed to work with. If you want to have only one feed, my personal view is that a full feed (not summary) is best, but it's your choice.
- Event Feed - leave this alone! When this feature was first introduced, I thought that if you activated it and then added events from upcoming.org etc to your blog, this option would add those events to your feed too. Not so - if you try that even as a test, you may get an empty feed. This option is for use only when you burn a feed that's from a special, calendar or events-type site, not for a "normal" site like a blog. However, as Feedburner suggest, you can use this to burn an event feed, then use BuzzBoost (see later) to get code to paste in your site in order to display the events in date order on your blog.
- Amazon ID Burner is also self-explanatory, useful if you're an Amazon Associate and want to make money from your feed.
Publicize tab - promoting your feedI strongly recommend that you check out the options here carefully. You can get more help on the Publicize tab. Just a few pointers:
- Headline Animator - I just love this feature, it's one of the best things about a Feedburner feed, to me: you can get an animated graphic (strictly, a GIF file on Feedburner's servers) to put in your email signature, message board signature, or on Websites etc. I don't how Feedburner do it, but Headline Animator lets you create an animated banner which automatically cycles through the headlines of your last 5 (max) blog posts, showing each headline for a second or two - which is great as a teaser for people viewing it, hopefully interesting them enough to click on it and read your full blog posts (when people click the banner, it will take them to your blog URL).
This is what mine looks like, it's their default look. You can include a "Grab this" link so people can display your banner on their site or blog if they wish):
You can even customise it a bit (but note you can't have one look for email, one for forums etc, you'll just get one version of the graphic, so whatever changes you make will follow through for all of them - unless you burn a separate feed for each "look", of course - see below on burning multiple feeds - and use the code from different ones for different purposes).
You can choose from a number of themes e.g. mine is Classic, or customise it quite a lot, even provide your own background image (as a GIF only, of the size you want your banner to be, which must be already uploaded on the Web - I tried to customise it once but just couldn't get it to look OK in terms of positioning and text size etc, this bit isn't very easy for non-artistics types like me!). After you're happy with your banner, click Activate, and you'll see a preview of your banner, with "Add to MySpace, TypePad" etc under it. Just click the dropdown and a new window pops up with the code for your platform, including Blogger and WordPress, which you can copy and paste into your template or website to display the banner.
The headline animator stats section under the Analyze tab shows how many views of your animator there have been, and how many click throughs to your blog posts via it.
Email sigs. You can even use your Feedburner animated banner as your email signature, if you have HTML emails. What a great way to show off your blog posts to recipients of your emails. It includes a nice "Subscribe now" link for the image too.
To get this animated graphic for your email sig, when you pick a Headline Animator theme (which actually doesn't have to be "Email signature" and click Activate, you'll see an "Add to MySpace etc" dropdown - pick "Email signature" from the list and it pops up a window with code and step by step instructions for Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook Express and Outlook 2003, Yahoo! Mail, and workarounds for Gmail and AppleMail. Whew!
Forum, bulletin board or messageboard sigs. Here's another tip. You know how lots of message boards let you have an image in your profile signature? Well you can have your headline animator banner in your forum sigs too, to help publicise your blog. I do - see e.g. this post in the old Feedburner forums for instance. Just grab your headline animator code, and look for the URL for the animated gif which will end in .gif - mine is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ConsumingExperience.1.gif for example, and use that as the image URL. The BBCode for that, which most forums use, is something like this (just change YOURBLOGURL.com to your own blog or site's URL, and change "http://feeds.feedburner.com/ConsumingExperienceFull.1.gif" URL to point to your own headline animator's URL, then paste it into the Signature box of your forum profile):
You can customise BuzzBoost too, in terms of number of posts to display etc, and also customise how the Webpage snippet looks through CSS styling.
- SpringWidgets - very cool, but a bit fiddly as you have to make a logo for your widget of exactly the right size etc, and I'm hopeless at image twiddling myself, cropping is my limit! I had a play with SpringWidgets when they first came out a year or so ago. I even had one in my sidebar for a while but removed it for some reason.
I never got round to blogging about SpringWidgets at the time, but basically you can make a free widget to display your blog content via your feed, a bit like BuzzBoost. What's unique about SpringWidgets is that people can very easily grab that widget to display your content on their computer desktop or on MySpace, message boards, their own website or blog, just by clicking the icon.
If you want a SpringWidget for your own blog I suggest you use SpringWidgets' own widget maker - it's a lot easier to configure, e.g. if you only have a narrow sidebar you can change the size there and then, etc (that's what they mean by "widget embed size") - it's not often I say something's easier than Feedburner, but this is! Anyway here's one I just whipped up for this blog so you can see what it looks like:
- Email subscriptions - activate this to offer your readers the ability to subscribe to your posts by email, i.e. they'll receive email updates with the text of your posts in them (whether full posts or excerpts only etc will depend on your Summary Burner settings, mentioned above). You'll get some code to paste into your blog or site's template, e.g. in the sidebar (see mine), where someone can fill in their email address to subscribe - it's even easier to add the subscription form to TypePad or Blogger. Here's how to add the email subscription form for MySpace and WordPress (note: if you don't see Presentation - Widgets, try Design, Widgets, add a Text widget, Edit it, put the code in the bigger box and you can add a title like "Subscribe to feed" in the upper box) - see WordPress.com's own write-up.
At present you can provide email subscriptions via 3 services: Feedblitz, Feedburner's own email subscription system or, though I've not tried that, Rmail. Feedblitz probably offers the most power and flexibility currently (see my early Feedblitz write-up) - e.g. with Feedburner's own system you can only get emails sent to your subscribers once a day within a delivery window you select; with Feedblitz you can have weekly delivery, etc, but you'd need to sign up for a separate account with Feedblitz. I won't go into the details here, they're mostly intuitive, but obviously if you use Feedburner the options will be in Feedburner, whereas if you use Feedblitz you'll have to login to Feedblitz to tweak your settings (see the Feedblitz FAQs). I use Feedblitz for ACE.
- Pingshot - tells various feed/web services when your feed is updated so they can index your updated content. I'd tick everything (notably Ping-O-Matic, which itself pings lots of other services including Newsgator, and Google Blog Search - much better than manually pinging BlogSearch!). You're allowed to add 5 more services to ping, so make full use of that and Add them before saving/activating - no point adding those which PingOMatic already pings, in my view, so probably not Icerocket, BlogDigger, Syndic8, Moreover, but if you want to why not ping Weblogs.com direct for luck (though Blogger does that already), and I'd add Alexa, Snap and Tailrank too, but it's up to you.
- Feedcount - get a graphic to show off your Feedburner feed's current subscriber circulation (regularly updated) by pasting the code provided into your blog template (or directly installing the widget if you use Movable Type or New Blogger - just select from the dropdown). I don't have one because I offer several feeds (full, excerpts and headlines only, see below) and it's not possible to merge their stats into one number yet, so the figures may be confusing.
- Chicklet Chooser - this is absolutely vital, in my view. Here, you can get code for an icon (chicklet) to add to your blog (usually the sidebar) which visitors to your blog can click in order to subscribe to your blog's Feedburner feed. I suggest you click one of the top two orange squares (I prefer the second, personally - more subtle). You could pick one of the custom icons but that narrows subscribers down to only the service picked (e.g. Google or Yahoo); or you can choose plain text if you prefer that to an icon (bottom option).
Once you've picked the look, copy and paste the code given into your template or, if you use Movable Type or New Blogger, you can install the widget direct to your blog. Here's how to add chicklet for TypePad, add a chicklet to WordPress (note: if you don't see Presentation - Widgets, try Design, Widgets, add a Text widget, Edit it, put the code in the bigger box and you can add a title like "Subscribe to feed" in the upper box), or add a chicklet to MySpace.
Tip: no reason why you can't have both the orange square icon and a My Yahoo button or whatever. Just click the one you want, get the code for it, and paste it in your template. Then click the other one, get the code for it, and add it elsewhere in your template.
- Awareness API - ignore this unless you're a developer in which case you don't need to read this post!
- Creative Commons - I won't go into CC here. Even if you want to use a Creative Commons licence for your feed (I do on mine), note that if you use the Feedburner icon (or your own Feed image burner icon) it will overwrite the CC icon, so it may be pointless ticking "Use the "Some Rights Reserved" image as my feed's logo".
- Password Protector - if you want to be exclusive and only let select people subscribe to your Feedburner feed, activate this and enter a username/password combo (again there's only one combo). Give the combo to select few, so they can use it to view your feed. No one should be able to see your Feedburner feed without that info.
But remember, Feedburner processes the original feed from your blog or site. If a nosy parker can work out the URL of your blog's native feed, they can read that source feed anyway (unless you've password protected the original source feed, or protected specific posts, or you've redirected the source feed to the Feedburner URL) - it's only the Feedburner feed they won't be able to read. So a Feedburner password will only work if you're not using a well known blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress.com where the base feed URL can easily be guessed from the blog URL (e.g. for a Blogspot blog it'll just be http://blogurl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default) - or, if you're using Blogger etc, unless you keep even the blog URL secret except from the select few. (If you turned off the native source feed altogether that won't help as Feedburner wouldn't then be able to produce anything - nothing in nothing out.)
- NoIndex - if you want your feed to be private, activate this so that it won't get indexed by the search engines (the Feedburner feed won't then, anyway - you still have to make sure your source feed isn't indexed). You probably also want to tick the box that stops the Feedburner feed from being used with Yahoo Pipes. (If you don't know what Yahoo Pipes are and want to keep your feed private, best tick it and activate.)
Monetize tab - make money with adsJust to clarify, Feedburner lets you add ads in two ways:
- to your feed, and
- on your blog's website.
Ads on your blog via Feedburner are AdSense ads displayed using Feedflare (covered below). If you're already using AdSense direct on Blogger (or even if you aren't), I suggest that's the easiest way, rather than using Feedflare. For non-Blogger bloggers, you might want to consider using Feedflare Adsense ads. Remember, this displays ads on your blog webpages using Feedflare, it does not show any ads in your feed.
See the official help on the Monetize tab.
Troubleshootize tabAgain I'm not going into this, let's hope you won't need to use it!
FeedFlare (in Optimise tab)FeedFlare deserves a section of its own. This is a very clever tool, and it has multiple uses.
Bloggers often enhance their blog with social media links e.g. via AddThis, to encourage readers to tag posts or share posts on social bookmarking sites and the like (such as Facebook, Del.icio.us, Digg) and thus increase visitors, or links to enable users to forward a post by email to a friend. But those links show only on the blog webpages, to people who visit your blog site on the Web. Feed subscribers don't get them because they only get your feed, they don't need to visit your blog pages via the Web.
With FeedFlare, you can enhance your feed similarly by adding clickable links of that kind to your feed (they'll appear at the end of each post in your feed). As Feedburner put it in the FeedFlare overview & FAQ, "FeedFlare changes the dynamic of how users interact with an RSS feed. Rather than just read content from your [Feedburner] feed, subscribers can now take direct actions, such as being able to forward or save an item [or even post a comment or read the comments, for Blogger and self-hosted WordPress blogs]. With a few clicks, publishers can include a whole slew of services. And FeedBurner's open API allows any Web service to create links that publishers can attach to their feeds, making this a fully extensible and customizable solution."
Activating FeedFlare. To use FeedFlare, just go to the FeedFlare section of Optimize, tick the items you want for your feed under the "Feed" column and Activate at the bottom. Each item if you click it has a brief explanation of what it's for. I'd recommend as a minimum ticking Email This, Comments Count, Save to del.icio.us, Digg This! Share on Facebook and Stumble It! but it's up to you. (Tip for Blogger users: do not add the "Email The Author" Feedflare, as Blogger haven't got that working properly and the email will only go into a black hole at Blogger.com rather than going to you. There's a workaround (scroll to the end) but it's really not very satisfactory as it'll display your email address in places you may not want it shown, in place of your name. I hope the Feedburner team will liaise with Team Blogger to sort this out - add a field to the Blogger profile where you can insert your email address for this purpose, ideally.)
Adding other FeedFlares. See the "Personal FeedFlare" section? This lets you add extra FeedFlares created by users outside of Feedburner. Just paste the URL of the FeedFlare in the box and click Add New Flare. I've added ones for Slashdot, Reddit and Twitter for instance (not that ACE has ever been Slashdotted, but that link can't hurt!).
How do you get the URLs of the extra FeedFlares you want to add? You can write your own, if you're a coder, or check out the FeedFlares in the Feedburner FeedFlare catalog or "101 FeedFlare Ideas".
Changing the order. You can change the order of the FeedFlare items you add, whether provided by Feedburner or others - scroll towards the end of the FeedFlare page, and just move the items around with your mouse to the desired locations.
FeedFlare for your blog. You can also use FeedFlare to enhance your site, i.e. the webpages of your blog, not just your feed.
That's what the "Site" column on the FeedFlare page is for. If you want a social bookmarking link or "Save to delicious" link to show up on your blog webpages (not just your feed), tick the appropriate item here before saving and activating. So for many of these links, FeedFlare is a viable alternative to adding the code for the links manually (e.g. the Delicious Tagometer) or using something like AddThis. I don't have the Save to del.icio.us FeedFlare ticked in the Site myself column, because I already have the Tagometer - but I do tick it under Feed. Similarly I don't need to tick the Email This or Comments Count under Site as I've already got those in my Blogger blog, but if you don't you might want to.
One more step to get the FeedFlare items to show up on your blog webpages - get the FeedFlare HTML code and add it to your template. Scroll to the end of the FeedFlare page and pick your blogging software (Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, WordPress or other) to get step by step instructions on how to add the code to your blog template.
In addition, if you add the Feed Flare code to your site, then as mentioned under Site stats above it does double duty by also tracking visitors to your blog's webpages (not just the feed).
The only disadvantage I can see for FeedFlare (compared with say AddThis) is that the social bookmarking etc links shown on your webpages are text-only links, not eye-catching icons. It would be nice if they made them clickable graphics but I suspect that'll be further down the line.
Promoting and publicizing your feed - autodiscovery etcYou'll see some of the options above involve tweaking your blog template or installing widgets in order to provide your new Feedburner feed URL to your subscribers via a chicklet, grabbing Headline Animator for use in your email signature, forum signature etc. All good stuff for publicity, so make use of them.
You should also redirect your blog's native feed to your Feedburner feed's URL, if you can (more info on redirection). Here's how to redirect Blogger feeds. There are specific instructions for various other platforms on how to redirect your feed to your Feedburner feed's URL in the Feedburner help: TypePad redirection, and self-hosted WordPress feed redirection - sorry, feed redirection doesn't seem currently possible with WordPress.com or MySpace.
Another important thing to do with your blog is to tweak the auto-discovery settings (more on how to tweak auto-discovery).
What about submitting your feed to search engines and feed aggregators? Well, I think activating and making full use of PingShot is enough, myself. See my previous post on how to publicise your feed generally. There are also other things you can try like turning your feed into a Google Gadget and submitting your feed to iGoogle (the Feedburner Browserfriendly service has the option to add to Google, but you could also add the Add to Google button to your blog sidebar if you want to, see Chicklets above).
Monitoring your Feed burner feedIf you want to keep an eye on your Feedburner feed and have Feedburner notify you of any problems, you can sign up for FeedBulletin via the My Account page once you've logged in to Feedburner.
You can get that info by email, or by private feed (which you can even password protect if you wish) - if you choose the feed and want to keep it private, see these suggestions for keeping Feed Bulletin private.
Want more than one Feedburner feed? and feed risksNow here's a tip. As you'll have figured from what I said above, you can in fact have more than one Feedburner feed for the same blog or site, as many as you like really (I assume there's a limit but I've not hit it yet!).
Just go through the whole process of burning your feed again, entering the URL of your native blog feed (e.g. http://www.consumingexperience.com/atom.xml or http://www.consumingexperience.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=atom in the case of ACE) - and note down the new Feedburner feed URL that's produced, or change its ending to any one you want that's not already taken.
Then you can use the different feed URLs for different purposes, tweaking Feedburner settings separately for each feed as you wish. That's how I'm able to provide subscribers to ACE's feed with a choice of feeds (here's how to offer subscribers their choice of full feed or partial feed (titles/excerpts only) - or even headlines only, as they prefer).
It's even been known for people to burn feeds from blogs or sites other than their own, in order to tweak the resulting feed in a way that better suits them. I'm not commenting on the legalities or moralities of that, just be aware than once you put out a feed, others can make use of it. Others can scrape your blog too, but it's certainly easier for them to copy your content wholesale if you put out a feed. (This is nothing to do with Feedburner - if you activate your feed, then you bear that risk whether or not you choose to burn your feed through Feedburner.) Personally I think it's worth offering a feed despite the risks, but it's up to you.
More info, help and supportFeedburner have useful help pages for almost everything, plus support forums (Google Group). I'm usually there for a while on Sundays, though it seems to be every 2 or 3 weeks at the moment.
The help on the Feedburner forums, from both Feedburner staff and ordinary users, was certainly invaluable when I were a mere baby blogger trying to to find my way in the weird world of Web 2.0 (thanks to all the Feedburner team!).
See also Google's tips for feed publishers.
And for more basic info on feeds generally, see part 1 of my introductory feeds basics 101 series where I covered the basics about feeds, and part 2 how to activate and publicise (in a basic way) your blog feed, and my intro to podcasting.


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13 Student-Athletes Helped Hold Valentine's Day Party For Members At Woodlands
Felder Is A Fifth Grader At Ferguson Easley Elementary School In Fayetteville
Camelia Blake was hired in June 2010 as an Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance. She joined Fayetteville State after serving as the Assistant Compliance Director at Chowan University for more than a year. While at Chowan, Blake certified initial, continuing and transfer eligibility for student-athletes and reported on and monitored the academic progress for student-athletes. She also worked with the institution's athletic department, coaching staffs, student-athletes and prospective student-athletes, providing reports to university administrators. Blake, who has a thorough knowledge of NCAA bylaws, has worked as a liaison between the university and NCAA and CIAA officials and has conducted annual NCAA and CIAA eligibility meetings with all student-athletes. Blake is a 2009 graduate of Virginia State University in Petersburg, VA, where she also interned in the athletic department and served in a wide variety of roles. Blake was named to the 2008 All-CIAA Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field team, was the 2008 Indoor 60-meter hurdle champion. Shewas a member of the 2008 CIAA Cross Country Co-Champions and was nominated for Virginia State Female Student-Athlete of the Year. In 2011, Blake was named Fayetteville State's advisor to the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.


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An Airbus A320 operated by XL Airways of Germany has been lost in the Mediterranean.
That aircraft is one that is owned by Air New Zealand and on lease to XL Airways for the past two years.
The aircraft was being flown by XL Airways to Frankfurt where it was due to be handed back to Air New Zealand for a ferry flight back to New Zealand.
Sadly, we have been notified that four Air New Zealand employees may have been on board the aircraft as passengers on this ferry flight to Frankfurt.
Naturally, this is an extremely difficult time for us all and I can assure that the full resources of the airline are being put into investigating what may have happened and providing support to our people and their families.
Rob Fyfe
NOTE: The content of all Air New Zealand media releases are accurate at the time of issue, as stated at the top of each release. For updates on any changes, please contact Air New Zealand.
Air New Zealand is proud to be a member of Star Alliance. The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognised by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award, Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Adria Airways, Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Blue1, bmi, Continental Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI, United and US Airways. Aegean Airlines, Air India, Brussels Airlines and TAM have been announced as future members. Overall, the Star Alliance network offers 19,500 daily flights to 1,071 airports in 171 countries.
For more information about Air New Zealand visit www.airnewzealand.com and for more information about Star Alliance visit www.staralliance.com.


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Tap water is safe, convenient, and economical. It is tested regularly to make sure the water is safe to drink, yet each and every day, people pass it up in favor of bottled water. In Minnesota, we are lucky to have access to beautiful lakes and rivers and a plentiful supply of drinking water, and we must be proactive to protect and preserve this resource for future generations. H2O for Life, the Minnesota Department of Health, Dow Water and Process Solutions, Elkay, and the Minnesota Section of the American Water Works Association are sponsoring a poster contest for Minnesota youth, K-12 encouraging people to choose tap water over bottled water. All entries must be postmarked or delivered to H2O for Life by April 17, 2014.
Congratulations to our winners!
We received over 900 poster submissions from elementary, middle, and high school students from around the state of Minnesota! We'd like to THANK each and every one of you for thinking about this important issue and taking the time to express your ideas artistically. Voting was not easy as we reviewed each entry carefully. Please help us congratulate our three winning artists!
Garden of Hope Montessori
Josie Valerius, Centennial Middle School
Laura Gallup, Centennial High School
- Win one of 3 water bottle filling stations for your school (valued at over $1,500)
- In addition to winning a filling station for their school, 3 students designing a winning poster will also receive a $50 prize
Public Water:
City water systems are tested regularly for more than 100 contaminants. These contaminants include bacteria, nitrate, arsenic, industrial chemicals, pesticides and radiological elements.
City water systems add just the right amount of chlorine to make sure your drinking water stays clean as it leaves the water plant and flows to your house.
Fluoride is added to your water to prevent cavities.
Minnesota has one of the best records in the nation for meeting the testing requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Laboratories that test drinking water in Minnesota are required to meet special certification standards.
The US EPA is always looking at new contaminants to add to the testing list.
If a contaminant is found in the water, the city water system must tell the customers.
If the contaminant exceeds a safe limit, the system must take steps to correct the problem.
Private wells:
Private wells should be tested for bacteria, nitrates and arsenic.
Proper location, construction, operation and maintenance are four essentials for a safe drinking water well.
Protecting our water at the source:
Groundwater is a hidden treasure that requires diligent protection.
Protect groundwater by minimizing use of pesticides and fertilizers.
Seal unused, unsealed wells to prevent contamination on the ground from entering the groundwater.
Don't dispose of unwanted chemicals on the ground or in the sewer.
Web resources:
Virtual tour of a drinking water plant: http://water.epa.gov/drink/tour/index.cfm
Here's a good video on bottled water: http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/
American Water Works Association Drink Tap site for kids: http://www.drinktap.org/kids.aspx
WebMD on tap water: http://www.webmd.com/women/home-health-and-safety-9/safe-drinking-water
Reader's Digest: www.rd.com/health/wellness/rethink-what-you-drink
CDC info on bottled water: http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/bottled/
CDC info on public water systems: http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/index.html
EPA's water on tap, what you need to know: http://water.epa.gov/drink/guide/
The following is merely a list of IDEAS, and should by no means limit your creative spirit!
- Safe water is no accident.
- Maintaining clean drinking water keeps us healthy.
- Think outside the bottle, drink from the tap.
- Minnesota, land of more than 10,000 public water supplies that provide safe drinking water.
- Bottled water is regulated as a food and does not have the same rigorous testing requirements as tap water.
- All youth in MN may participate, but water bottle stations will be installed in the local school or community gathering space.
- Posters must be created on a single sheet of 12" x 18" construction paper to be eligible for the contest
- Students may use a variety of mediums including charcoal, crayon, pencil, markers, paint, graphics and computer generated materials.
- Posters must be original designs by participant- please do not use copyrighted materials.
- Each poster must be the original work of a single participant.
- Name, grade, school name and address of school and phone number must be included on the back of the poster.
- Entries become the property of the contest sponsors and may be used for display and promotion.
- All entries must be delivered or mailed to the H2O for Life office by April 17, 2014
Mail entries to:
H2O for Life
1310 E. Hwy 96 Suite 235
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
If you have questions or for further information please contact:
Patty Hall
H2O for Life
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Every living person is a hypocrite. Some just do it better than others.
I see you still didn't directly answer Droo.
The politicians who milk the Newtown tragedy, call for gun bans but have bodyguards for themselves, their family and their money
Politicians without a doubt!


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When are mice a good thing? When they help children learn and experience how this great country works! Spokeswoman for the United in CHRIST Lutheran School, Stephanie Mueller (Miller) says the "Super Mouse Bowl I – Rushing to DC" races is a night filled with food, fun, and furry rodents! The mice actually race each other! She tells KZIM KSIM it takes a lot of money to help students achieve this important goal! "This is for our UIC 7th and 8th graders coming up. We are doing this every 2 years and going this time in October of this year (2014). Taking twenty kids to WashingtonDC." Mueller says a 17-dollar ticket includes; beer, soft drinks, snacks, and the dance following the races. Doors and the betting window open at 6-00pm. The mice stay under glass! The races start at 7 o'clock on the 25th at the Brazeau (Brazz-aw) Hall on Highway C. Tickets are 20-dollars at the door.
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The Telegraph has a receipt for a bill at Maya, a club in London's Soho area that shows a £43,067.50 bar bill from this week.
The astonishing bar bill included two methuselah of Dom Perignon champagne at £9,000 each, and four jeroboam of Crystal champagne costing £4,500 each.
A methuselah is eight times the normal bottle size, and a jeroboam four times.
The unnamed banker arrived at Maya with four friends. He then ordered a total of 16 bottles of champagn.
His bill came to £43,067.50. A 15 per cent service charge, which amounted to £5,617.50, all went to the lucky waitress.


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Greg Young Discusses State Transitions in Domain-Driven Design and DDD Best Practices
In this interview, Greg Young talks about managing state transitions in a Domain-Driven Design project using two separate models, one for reading data from datastore and the other for write-only command operations. He also discussed Command Query Separation to keep the design cleaner and easier to test and maintain and the best practices that developers can use when working on DDD projects.
Greg Young is co-founder and CTO of IMIS, a stock market analytics firm in Vancouver BC. With over 10 years of varied experience in computer science from embedded operating systems to business systems and everything in between, he brings a pragmatic and often times unusual viewpoint to discussions.


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Stock price: €40.1 ($54.12)
Conclusion: Henkel's (OTCPK:HENKY) rerating stems from its superior growth in consumer combined with expected pick up in adhesives this year. Nonetheless, 2012 is approaching and the target of 14% margin looks agressive in light of 10% achieved last year. Henkel looks fairly priced based on our valuation range of €40-€44 per share.
2009 results: Sales down 3.9% to €13.5bn (-3.5% organic). EPS down 13% to €1.91. Guidance 2010: noticeable improvement in EBIT and adjusted earnings.
Henkel is bridging the gap with peers in consumers.
- Superior growth in cosmetics. Henkel outperformed both L'Oreal (-1%) and Beiersdorf (+1%) with 3.5% growth in 2009, despite an almost double digit decline of the hair salon market. First, part of Henkel's personal care business relies on low priced hygiene products (soap, shower gel, deodorants..) which are less cyclical than premium priced categories. Second, Henkel hinges on three powerful brands Schwarzkopf, Dial and Fa which represent 80% of revenues.Innovation has accelerated, accounting for 40% of sales in the personal care division. Henkel gained share in the salon market, thanks to successful launches by Schwarzkopf. In addition to new products, Henkel is launching new brands such as Syoss, rolled out in 25 countries.
- Good resistance in laundry and home care with sales up 3.5% driven by pricing. However, Henkel is underexposed to Asia and Latam, which might hold back future growth.
- 2010 outlook ? slight pick up in adhesives but pricing will be an issue. Management expects a minor recovery in Europe and in the US in adhesives, notably in electronics, construction and automotive. Personal and home care markets could slowdown but Henkel plans to continue to outperform peers. Pricing and promotional activities could get tougher in 2010. We look for 2.5% organic growth this year.
Still a long way to go on the bottom line front.
- 13% margin in consumers compares with 15% margin for best-in-class players in Europe. Henkel does not provide enough segmented information to explain the difference. However, we think this is a combination of a lower pricing power affecting the gross margin and higher selling and administrative expenses.
- 14% margin target by 2012 requires 4 ppt gain in 3 years, which looks unprobable. Around 2/3 of savings expected from the Global Excellence programme and NS integration have been achieved and are now behind us. The remaining €150m would represent less than 1 ppt of sales by 2012, implying that 3 ppt should come from positive leverage..
Henkel trades at 18.4xP/E and 10.5xEV/EBITDA based on our 2010 estimates (€2.18 EPS-€1916mEBIDTA) at a slight discount to peers in cosmetics. We find the discount justified by its lower margin in cosmetics combined with greater cyclicality in adhesives. However, Henkel's cash generation provides support to the stock price. Our DCF based valuation suggests a valuation closer to €44 per share.


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We have access to all kinds of analytical material here at The Feed, which we use to figure out what you guys like and don't, and where you come from when you come to the site. One of the most interesting things we have access to is a list of searches that led you to our site. So, we're going to share some of the weirdest search terms with you in a new feature we like to call Things The Internets Want To Know.
First, we had a bunch of what we can only assume were parents searching for "Club Penguin," which led to our funny, but definitely not family friendly internet meme that showed...well...penguins getting clubbed. This amuses us greatly.
Also interesting (but not necessarily search related) was the fact that last month we received one single visitor from each of the following places; Turkmenistan, East Timor, Cook Island, Christmas Island, Micronesia, Burundi, and Antarctica. Thanks, Antarctica, but, seriously, West Timor, get on the stick, will ya?
But our favorite thing that the Internets Wanted to Know last week was...Can you have a female wizard?
Google's infinite wisdom sent that random searcher to our Diablo III Hands-on post from last month's Blizzcon. Since our Diablo piece couldn't possibly have given that new G4tv.com visitor what they were actually looking for, and because it was one of the more amusing things we've seen the internets search for in some time, we would be remiss if we didn't take some time and answer that question:
The short answer is "yes," but the long one is much more complicated. Due to the Wizarding Equal Rights Scroll of 1411, the Wizarding Parliment, also known as the Kazaambinet, was forced to recognize the existence of female wizards, instead of calling them "witch," or the much less-used but no less derrogetory "spell curtains."
The most famous of all of these female wizards, Hermoine the Comely, was given her own wing of the Castle of High Wizardry in the late 17th Century, but was sealed and later reduced to ashes when it was found that Hermoine was not, in fact, a female, but a man named Haag who learned a spell that made him look like a woman. A comely one, at that.
So, there's your answer. Aren't you glad you searched?