I’ve set up a Jaiku page for myself. If you are somebody who creates a lot of content on various websites, Jaiku lets you consolidate your “identity” by pulling all the various RSS feeds containing your, um, content droppings. So if you’ve got a Flickr site, say, plus a WCN site, plus a LiveJournal, plus this, and plus that, your Jaiku page can contain the latest links to all of those.

Two of the places I post a lot of content happen to be owned by me — the TAC blog, right here, and the TAC forums. There were no RSS feeds for individual authors on either of those services. So I spent a few minutes coding such things into existence.

This will come in handy for any of you who want to set up your own Jaiku pages, I reckon (I just wish that Comixpedia and The Engine, two other sites where I habitually post material, allowed me to pull out an individualized RSS feed).

It will also come in handy for those of you who want to follow the postings of any individual author other than yourself, on the TAC blog or forum.

To get an RSS feed for all TAC blog posts by an individual author, use the following URL structure:

http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/blog/userfeed.php?username=Eric%20Millikin

You’ll want to change out the “username” part, of course, to the username of the author you’d actually like to track. And if the author’s username contains a space (like Eric Millikin’s does, in the example above), replace the space with %20 — which is just one of those things.

Likewise, for an RSS feed for all TAC forum posts by an individual author, use the following URL:

http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/phpBB2/userfeed.php?username=Bo%20Lindbergh

Again, you’ll want to change out the “username” part.

And go check out my Jaiku page. There’s even an RSS feed there, where you can get a combined version of all the feeds I’ve personally pushed into Jaiku, plus anything else I post as a one-off there. That feed is here:

http://joeymanley.jaiku.com/feed/rss

[Correction: Comixpedia does allow you to pull out an RSS feed of your blog posts, but it's fairly hidden. You go to the "homepage" for your "blog" on the 'pedia (mine is here: http://www.comixpedia.com/blog/joeymanley), and yours will be pretty much in the same place, except you have to change out my username for yours, then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, and there's an RSS icon, unexplained, just sitting all by itself down there on the left-hand side of the page. That gives you your feed (which is exactly the same as your blog URL, except with '/feed' added to the end of it).

Now to look around more on The Engine for this kind of functionality ...

Um. And I guess I'll have to stop cross-posting so much on these websites, now that Jaiku will make that activity so obvious -- curses!

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