I am the admin for the Notes from the Fatosphere aggregate feed.

Special note: If you are planning to submit your blog to be added to either or both of the fat feeds, please ensure you have read and are willing to follow these guidelines:

• Your blog posts are primarily related to fat, that is fat commentary, fat fashion, living fat, fat and health/health professions, HAES or the like. Your submission will not be accepted if your blog entries are not at least 75% relating to fat/size acceptance – Notes is a fat acceptance feed for a reason.
• That you have been blogging at your blog on a regular basis for at least 3 months about FA related issues.
• Blogs that express hostility to the Fat Acceptance movement in general, that promote the idea of fat as unhealthy or negative, or promote weight loss as ‘the answer’, or refer to intended personal weightloss etc will not be added to the fat feeds. Genuine self reflection is fine, blatant fat hate (yours or anyone else’s) is not. Neither is bagging out other people you happen to think are too skinny, too fat, too ugly etc. We are not about condemning people because of their physical appearance.
• Racist, sexist and ableist content will not be tolerated.

What are they?

Notes is an aggregate feeds that pull from a number of blogs dealing with fat, body politics, etc. Weight loss blogs aren’t included and won’t be included.

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How to See All the Posts on the Feed

You can find the Notes from the Fatosphere posts here. If you scroll to the bottom it will give you an option to see “more” posts and you should be able keep doing this indefinitely until you’ve run through all the posts on the feed. You can sub via email or via a reader such as Google Reader.

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Which blogs are on the Feed?

in the process of being updated

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The Link to Use

Notes from the Fatosphere (RSS 2.0)

Adding Notes to Your Blog

Feel free to add them to your blog. In fact yay! if you do. Below are some general instructions to help you out – it’s usually pretty easy.

Blogger users: Click “edit layout” “template” “page elements” and then click “add a page element” in the sidebar section. Select “Feed” insert the URL above at the prompt, and customize to taste. Save.

WordPress.com users: just use add the RSS widget (under “presentation,” “widgets”). Drag an RSS widget (e.g. RSS 1) from the bottom of the page onto your sidebar, click on it, and put in the feed URL above. Title and customize to taste. Save.

Users of WordPress software hosted outside of WordPress.com: (see here if that statement confuses you – but if it does you probably don’t need to pay attention to this paragraph).  Opensource WordPress users may need to use the Atom 1.0 version, as the included RSS widget doesn’t parse the links correctly in the RSS 2.0 format. At least for some people. Anyhoo, I’ve tested the Atom 1.0 version and it seems to work with the opensource WordPress software – but if you’re still having problems, let me know.

Livejournal users: As far as I know feeds can’t be added to Livejournal blogs. But LJ does let you add syndicated feeds to your friends page. The Notes has been syndicated here and can be added from that page.

Springwidgets - Although I’ve never tried it myself, I mention it because some people have added the Notes to their blog using Springwidgets. You can check out The Rotund to see how it looks.

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Adding your Blog to the feeds

If you want your blog included or removed from the feeds, drop me an email at  fatosphere AT gmail.com It’s not a great idea to post a comment here, since I may miss it if it’s a heavy flow day (comment-wise that is) or the spaminator may zap it if it contains a link.

Feel free to nag me if you don’t hear back within a reasonable time (say, a week) – I get a lot of email and I don’t want to miss requests.

If your posts aren’t showing up

First of all, give it a little time. The parsers that read the various feeds refresh at different rates (e.g. WordPress’s RSS parser refreshes only every hour). But if your post doesn’t show up in 24 hours, nag me, please. I can’t keep track of each blog individually, so I need to hear if posts are getting dropped.