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I feel very geeky.

I'm a fan of the TechLearning Blog. The writers are all mostly top-notch bloggers, and the conversations they generate in the comments section are just as good as the posts themselves. The problem with the TechLearning Blog (and the entire web site) is that it appears to be stuck in the past. The blog runs a version of the Movable Type blog software that was released in July of 2006. My personal problem with this is that there is no way for me to keep up with comments: no e-mail subscription to comments on a post, and certainly no comments RSS feed.

So I made a comments RSS feed for them. Like I said, I'm feeling very geeky right now.

You may use it, but of course, I reserve the right to take it down any time I please. A big disclaimer: my script is extremely mean to the TechLearning server (and my script itself is very slow), so when I start getting cease-and-desist notices, I'm happily complying.

I also threw the master feed into Yahoo Pipes, in case you're only interested in a particular post's comments.

techLEARNING Blog Comments: http://rss.walterk29.com/techlearning.com.php
Yahoo Pipes: http://pipes.yahoo.com/kevinwalter/techlearning

For the Yahoo Pipes page, you just need to input the URL of the post, and it will filter only the comments on that post.

A few other notes:

• Only comments on the most recent 15 posts are shown, because that's how many posts TechLearning puts in their main RSS feed. This also means that if a post isn't in the most recent 15, the Yahoo Pipes filter won't do you much good.
• Dates are formatted to whatever TechLearning uses on their site, which I'll guess is GMT.
• Comments in the RSS feed are ordered by post (most recent), and then by comment (most recent).

Enjoy the conversation. You're welcome.