BiSquish.com has a new logo

[yesthattom]

http://www.bisquish.com/ has a new logo. It also has a pretty steady stream of posts lately. Please be a patron. I’m putting in a lot of work on this site lately. :)

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[indifferenthues.livejournal.com]

and for even greater convenience, all BiSquish readers here on LJ can go here:

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=bisquish

and simply add it to their "Friends List".

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Wordpress rox! :)

[lilbjorn.livejournal.com]

Nicely done!

[kitschparade.livejournal.com]

squishy!

More BiSquishy Things

[indifferenthues.livejournal.com]

So, now that I'm a happy reader of this fine Magazine it stands to reason that I'd want to put in a comment or two.

I am reading BiSquish on my LJ Flist and it has a place for "Comments". So (in re: 5:53pm, 19th August 2005: Our new logo!) I try posting this: "Very Jazzy. Will your designer possibly be making matching banners & icons for distribution to sites who'd like to put up links to it? For instance one about 248 px wide might be nice . . . smile".

Which dutifully shows up on LJ but sadly no automatic way to go back to BiSquish.

So finding no obvious way to do what I want I have submitted this question to the nice LJ folks here: http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=496579.

I'll let all know if they say something interesting.

PS FYI this: http://www.bicon2005.org.uk/ started today and their RSS Feed to LJ is here: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=bicon2005news.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Yes, RSS feeds are unidirectional. There is no way to pass comments back up to the original site at this time.

Any RSS feed can be fed into LiveJournal, the creator of the feed doesn't even need to know (if they didn't want the info out there, they wouldn't provide a feed). The BiSquish RSS feed might be imported into LJ, Yahoo RSS, Apple RSS, and 50 other sites. As the producer of the feed, I shouldn't have to check all of them for comments.

LJ should disable comments for feeds, or print a big warning that if the person wants the comment to be seen outside of LJ, they should go to the original site.

[indifferenthues.livejournal.com]

Yes, RSS feeds are unidirectional. There is no way to pass comments back up to the original site at this time.

Thank you. I am not familiar with the internal mechanics of RSS but the word "Feed" did give me a strong hint that this might be the case. But poking around and asking questions never hurts anything [well hardly ever].

The BiSquish RSS feed might be imported into LJ, Yahoo RSS, Apple RSS, and 50 other sites. As the producer of the feed, I shouldn't have to check all of them for comments.

From your mouth to god's ear . . . I sure HOPE BiSquish becomes that popular . . . smile.

As the producer of the feed, I shouldn't have to check all of them for comments.

Obviously not.

LJ should disable comments for feeds, or print a big warning that if the person wants the comment to be seen outside of LJ, they should go to the original site.

Good idea. I'll wait for the "official" LJ response and then submit that as a possible improvement. Since it is a "core" LJ feature, modifying the "Comments" on a "Friends" page depending on they source of the data sounds like it may be an annoying undertaking. Just adding the above information in LARGE TYPE on the RSS Subscription page shouldn't be too terrible though.

In the end, my feeling is that for Blog Journals such as BiSquish, the actual advent and implementation of "OpenID" will be a very encouraging development.