I’ve had a couple of folks ask me how I include a daily digest of all of my newly added Ma.gnolia links in my RSS feed, so I thought I would provide a very quick rundown.
FeedBurner is the foundation of the functionality, as it makes it very easy to harness the wealth of feeds provided by Ma.gnolia. Once you’ve signed up for the free service and set up a site, click on the Optimize tab and then select LinkSplicer in the sidebar. At that point just follow the directions they provide you and select the “As a once-a-day summary only”. Once your site is using FeedBurner to serve your feeds, the Ma.gnolia links will show up automatically each night assuming you added at least one new link to your Ma.gnolia account.
Users of WordPress should check out the FeedBurner plugin by Steve Smith, which makes the transition to FeedBurner a smooth one.
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Hey, thanks for posting this Alex, I’m sure it will help a lot of people out.
I just thought I’d post my own idea here, to possibly get the conversation started as to a more perfect solution.
What I wanted to do was to have my Ma.gnolia digest appear in a separate feed, away from my blog entries. There’s not a quick-and-easy way to do this, so I have come up with this work-around.
I created a “dummy” feed with no posts, and spliced my Daily Digest onto that through feed burner. I did this by using the feed from a test installation of wordpress that I had lying around. This is actually proved to be a good idea because I can now get a message out to my Ma.gnolia readers if I need to.
Now, you or some of your readers might be RSS/XML fiends… I am not. There are probably better ways to create a dummy feed, but this was the quickest way I could think of, and it was convenient.
Thanks for your help in this Alex, and I hope this idea helps more people. Specifically, I hope it annoys people into creating a better solution :)