FeedBurner’s Meta Feeds

[ via Rafe ] FeedBurner now lets you merge your photo feed from Flickr and your del.icio.us linkstream with an XML syndication feed.

This is something I’ve wanted to sit down and write some XSLT for.

So I’ve merged Atomic Kittens, del.icio.us/whump with my full-text Atom feed: creating a shambling RSS 2.0 meta feed.

What’s not to like:

  • Entries, even valid XHTML, render in the evil, foul escaped format, meaning that you’ll have to use XSLT extension function voodoo to do anything meaningful with the contents.

  • The del.icio.us feed comes in as a block of links per-day instead of interleaving each link within the stream.

    Update: in response to requests, they added the per item option!

  • No support for mixing in the other obvious feed source: Live Journal, the dark matter of the blogosphere.

But I shan’t complain too harshly. This is a nice feature for FeedBurner, and I’m glad for it.

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