On images in RSS feeds
Among feeds added recently to the College and University Feed Directory is one from Babson College’s New Blog. It’s a FeedBurner feed. Something I noticed is that they have a a photo or two with each entry - very cool. Unfortunately the photos don’t come through to my feed reader. Bummer! (I suspect it would come through if they fully qualified the link in the IMG tag instead of using a relative link - in my RSS reader the relativity is lost.) In the first image below is what an item ends up looking like in my reader (Sage for Firefox) - with the image showing as undefined. Below that is an image of what an item looks like when when an image is present in a feed, through in the Sage reader for Firefox. (Looks like Dimitri has some new hardware!)
So the question is: Do you include images in your RSS feeds? Why or why not?
You know, a quick and dirty solution to the relative/absolute/embed/enclosure problem w/images could be splicing a Flickr feed into your Feedburner feed. IMHO, benefits all around.
Comment by Dimitri Glazkov — November 1, 2006 @ 7:48 am
A flickr mashup - nice idea. I’m going to have to look into this. I wonder if the Feedburner people are listening. There are so many little splices like this that they stand to make a lot easier for the non-techie to implement.
Comment by Dan Karleen — November 1, 2006 @ 1:28 pm
Not only they’re listening — they have already implemented it
That’s how my Canon pyramid photo ended up in your feeds. I just posted it on Flickr and tagged as “blog”. Feedburner did the rest.
Comment by Dimitri Glazkov — November 2, 2006 @ 9:33 am