Reply #122: Also, another suggestion but it might be kind of "niche" re: RSS Feed

[Ian David]

AvantGo has been kind enough to roll-out a free RSS Reader for the PalmPilot / PocketPC crowd.

Some RSS feeds are more PalmPilot-Friendly than others.

For example, it is nearly impossible to read the DU RSS Feed through AvantGo.

Some feeds that work fairly well on AvantGo:

http://www.buyblue.org/rss.xml
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.rdf
http://massresistancewatch.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://feeds.dailykos.com/dailykos/index.xml

If the RSS feed didn't truncate the messages, then there would be no need to click on the "Full Article" link.

That would be enough to make the DU RSS feeds "good enough." Just stop truncating the messages.

Right now, AvantGo gives me an error when I do that. "Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. The number of request header fields exceeds this servers limit. Apache/1.3.34 server at journals.democraticunderground.com Port 80"

Even when it's not broken, clicking on "Full Article" gives me pretty much unreadable stuff on most blogs, including DU.

As more and more people start relying more upon portable data devices like The Blackberry and web-enabled cellular phones, this issue will become more important.

The journals are awesome! Keep up the good work, Skinner!