Script to process HTML into an RSS feed and a comments widget choice -- Disqus.
The advantages of having a home page since 1995 are search engine rankings and established links and visitors. The disadvantage is that I am stuck using old technology. Some of the new web tech is just fluff, but RSS, comments, and trackbacks/pingbacks are useful. After procrastinating too long, I set up RSS and comments today.
Disqus is a no-brainer. There are several competing comment widgets, and I have not evaluated them, because Disqus is used by Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Russell Beattie, and Steven Hodson.
I decided to give it a try. Give it a whirl below, will ya?
I simply made my own RSS feed script to run from Cron.
While I was mucking with it, I switched to hand-made PHP templates. I could have used server-side includes, but PHP is more flexible and more widely supported.
I made a Feedburner feed. I must be missing something. What exactly do I get from them I don't already have in my access logs? Any Feedburner power user care to enlighten me if I should use them and why?
