An improvement for BlogWatcher

I've made what I hope will be a big improvement in the usability of BlogWatcher. It should now be less complicated to add new subscriptions. Especially for esoteric ones like MySpace. I'm modified it so that, in many cases, you won't need to try to track down the RSS feed for the site that you want to subscribe to!

To use this new feature, find a page that you'd like to subscribe to. As a sample, maybe you want to subscribe to Wendy's blog, which is at http://wendy.thebaileys.name/blog/. Just type that into the "user" field on the subscription page (or copy and paste it, which is more likely ;) ) and choose "Best Guess" from the list of subscription types. The system will try it's best to determine the optimal subscription settings.

This hasn't undergone a lot of testing yet, so I'm sure there are PLENTY of pages where it won't work as expected. But I think it will work a majority of the time. And since the biggest problem I see is that people are putting blog URLs instead of feed URLs when they choose the "Generic RSS" option, I think this will make things easier for everybody.

Please report any problems that you encounter, so that I can resolve them.

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wow ... that sounds like quite sophisticated programmins ... all to make our lives easier. Thanks so much!