https://americancynic.net/ Atom Feed for 'meta' Articles 2015-01-03T15:53:14Z Amer Canis https://americancynic.net/about/ tag:americancynic.net,2015-01-03:/log/2015/1/3/oops_american_cynic_quality_control/ Oops: American Cynic Quality Control 2015-01-03T15:53:14Z 2015-01-03T15:53:14Z <div class="paragraph"> <p>I&#8217;ve recently adopted a new workflow for writing articles here, and already in the past few weeks I&#8217;ve embarrassingly managed to publish drafts of two incomplete articles (one on police body cameras which I&#8217;m never going to finish and then yesterday one on some shootings which took place in Baltimore and New York). My apologies for the noise to anyone who reads my articles via the <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=AmericanCynic&amp;loc=en_US">email subscription</a> (hi Mom) or the Atom feeds.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>In order to reduce the likelihood of my mistakes being emailed out in the future, I will (after this post) change the settings on the email subscription to only include <a href="/features/">&#8216;featured&#8217;</a> articles.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>I can also offer a few tips for using the Atom feeds to follow American Cynic at reduced noise levels:</p> </div> <div class="ulist"> <ul> <li> <p>Instead of subscribing to the <a href="/atom.xml">main atom feed</a> which includes <em>every</em> article I publish (even the stupid and the accidental ones), subscribe to the <a href="/atom-features.xml">features atom feed</a> which only includes the higher-quality (but usually longer) articles.</p> </li> <li> <p>Only interested in my thoughts on a specific topic or topics? Every <a href="/tags/">category</a> has its own feed. For example, if you are only interested in <a href="/tags/religion/">my articles on religion</a>, you could subscribe to the feed at <a href="/tags/religion/atom.xml">americancynic.net/tags/religion/atom.xml</a>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Only interested in my high-quality thoughts on a specific topic? There are feeds for those, too. If you only want to read featured articles on religion, for example, subscribe to <a href="/tags/religion/atom-features.xml">americancynic.net/tags/religion/atom-features.xml</a>.</p> </li> </ul> </div> I've twice published incomplete draft articles in the past few weeks. Some tips for using this site's atom feeds.