After encountering a number of problems trying to filter Blogger feeds by tag (using services like Feedrinse and Yahoo Pipes), I’ve finally put together a solution that works:

• Shadow the feed with Feedburner.
• Enable the Convert Format Burner, and convert your feed to RSS 2.0.
• Use Yahoo Pipes to filter the feed (because Feedrinse seems to be broken).

This let me create a feed that excluded all my posts containing the fbpost tag, thus allowing me to avoid yet another postgasm in Facebook when adding new import URL to notes.

I spent some time recently trying to figure out, using Google’s gdata API, how to retrieve a post from a Blogger blog if I know corresponding post id. As far as I can tell there is no obvious way of doing this, at least not using the gdata.blogger.client api, but after much nashing of teeth I came up with the following solution.

Given client, a gdata.blogger.client instance, and blog, a gdata.blogger.data.Blog instance, the following code will return a gdata.blogger.data.BlogPost instance: