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If the Twitter posts and delicious posts are too much for you, you can actually get a custom mix of category-specific RSS feeds for this blog - or any Wordpress blog (assuming you know the category ID number).

Here’s the formula (Update: Oops, maybe not. Check out the end of the post.):

http://blogurl.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=4

To get a feed for multiple categories just use commas and extra numbers at the end:

http://blogurl.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=4,5

So for this blog, here are some RSS options for those who don’t want the Full Smajda, tweets and all:

• http://jon.smajda.com/blog/wp-rss2.php?cat=1,2,4: The feed for regular entries, uncategorized entries (which are usually regular entries I just forget to categorize), and the delicious links. In other words, everything except the tweets. So everything over 140 characters.
• http://jon.smajda.com/blog/wp-rss2.php?cat=1,2: Just the entries. No delicious or tweets. If it ain’t worth more than 255 characters to me, you want no part of it. Subscribe to this feed.

Update, June 10, 2008: Ok, apparently this doesn’t work on this blog. It did at the time I wrote this so…maybe a WP upgrade did it? Whatever happened, you can’t use the “wp-rss2.php?” anymore, but you can use “/feed/?” instead, so here are the updated feeds for this blog:

• Long entries only: http://jon.smajda.com/blog/feed/?cat=1,2
• Long entires + del.icio.us links: http://jon.smajda.com/blog/feed/?cat=1,2,4

Yet Another Update, September 1, 2008: I reorganized my categories a bit. For now I’ve got four categories:

• ID 1: entries: Full length posts.
• ID 9: tweets: Posts from twitter.
• ID 4: delicious: Links from delicious. I may or may not keep using this.
• ID 83: asides: A new category. Shorter posts, no titles. Will replace & extend much of what I used the delicious category for.

If you just want RSS for everything but the tweets: I made the author for the tweets “twitter-smajda” instead of the usual “jon”. So if you subscribe to jon.smajda.com/blog/author/jon/feed you’ll skip the tweets. This is also probably better because any further changes to the categories won’t screw anything up.