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September 17, 2004
RSS Syndication of Photo Blog Images
As some of you know, I've been playing around with camera phone blogging for the last six months or so. Most recently, I've started using Buzznet.com to host my camera phone pics; it's similar to phlog.net in the sense that they both let you email pictures from your camera to a personal in-box, then host them on a photo blog homepage for you, but Buzznet has a nice extra feature: RSS syndication of your pictures.
Normally, a person could go to my photo blog collection to see my latest photos, but the RSS feed lets me display thumbnails of my most recent pictures on my blog -- or on any other website for that matter. So if you look at my blog homepage on the left-hand side, you'll now see a vertical strip of photos recently posted from my camera phone. (At the moment there a some pictures from around Boston, plus my cats, who always make for fun candid photos.) Buzznet users get access to a script they can post on a Web page so they can syndicate their photos.
Buzznet offers a free service, though you can upgrade to a paid service if you want to post a lot of photos on a regular basis. It also has advertising, which is an annoyance, but I'm willing to put up with it for the sake of the automatic RSS feed.
So if you're a photo blogger and want to syndicate thumbnails of your images, check it out... -andy
Posted by acarvin at September 17, 2004 8:37 AM
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