Wednesday, April 27, 2011

RSS now available on AtheistVault.com

I finally found some time to work out how to write XML RSS Feeds. So now Atheist Vault (the site http://www.atheistvault.com/, not this blog) has an RSS subscription option.

I've also had Mojoey's Atheist Blogroll link changed to Atheist Vault instead of this companion site. Atheist Vault gets regularly updated, this blog doesn't.

Mojoey reported to me the following about the Atheist Blogroll:
I am sorry to say but blogrolling.com stopped service a few months ago. The Atheist Blogroll is now simply a badge showing membership and a link to the blogroll, which I maintain as a list here http://atheistblogroll.blogspot.com/2010/04/full-list.html.
 I notice now that other Atheist blogs run their own "Blogroll". Although the Blogrolls are less roll and more bog.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Atheist Vault still alive!

Although I have posted to this blog infrequently, the Atheist Vault site is still alive. I did take a break earlier this year while I had to concentrate on another project. My goal is still to get at least one new item up on Atheist Vault a day. Although, I really need to work out some kind of RSS feed so that people can follow it (rather than this blog).

There has been fewer and fewer worthy atheist related articles recently to link to. Some of the good authors have gone quiet, while most of the blogosphere continues to churn out the same ideas over and over.

My major problem is that google hates Atheist Vault. It's a combination of having few links to the site and that my site looks partly like a content farm. Well maybe it is a content farm. All I am doing is linking to articles, and sampling the text from the article as a teaser. In that sense, with no original content Atheist Vault actually fits the definition of a content farm quite neatly.

It's likely that I am going to have to write my own teaser for each article now. That's a little disappointing to me, simply because I am trying to link to articles without appearing to give it an editorial spin, or tell the reader whether they should agree or disagree, in part or in the entirety, with the article.