A site that you might want to look at, if you've been frustrated by the lack of a feed for your DeviantArt journal, is feed43.com, where one can create a feed for a variety of sites. The process is not completely straightforward, but this article at Scripta Manent will explain all to those who approach it patiently. The only problem that I've had with my new feed so far is that it won't display on my MSN Livespace.

This makes a considerable difference, as I no longer am left in a position of asking my visitors to keep checking back for updates that are posted so infrequently. The new feed for this journal is found at

http://feed43.com/4674741085232330.xml

The unofficial name for this journal, one which DeviantArt's system won't let me enter, is "Darkroom Without Shadows". I'll explain that, later.




Update, April 15, 2009

The feed43.com feed has stopped working, but DeviantArt has finally decided to provide one of its own:

http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=by%3Ajosephdunphy&type=journal

It's not a satisfactory effort on DA's part - neither links nor spaces are successfully transmitted through the feed, which appears mangled when fed onto another site - but it's better than nothing. One can at least run a feed of just titles, automatically notifying readers of updates wherever that feed is seen.

At least there's that.