Wednesday, October 16, 2002

A test title to post to MT The section above should be grabbed as a title for this entry by MT.  This will get around the irritating problem with R8's fixed input boxes that stretch my web page. 6:54:14 PM

Test post to Useless Misc on emaynard.org 6:41:02 PM

Tuesday, June 11, 2002

I've been looking for an easy way to incorporate my category RSS on my blogs home page and I think now I may have them answer.  I want to do something very similar to what l.m. orchard has done at the 0xdecafbad wiki site. I could probably do this with Radio's Most Recent Posting Macro with the category parameter, but RSSDisplay appears to give you that same functionality in any CMS. 11:03:21 PM

Monday, June 03, 2002

Hmm... Blogroll macro (using NiF OPML) works on the Desktop Website Homepage, how about the Website Homepage. YEP! Like a charm. What do you know...CSS classes even work like expect them to.  Watch-out, I'm on a roll now! 8:08:07 PM

OK, I'm a member of the Neighborhood (for whatever that's worth) so now I should be so  BOLD. 7:53:52 PM

Sunday, April 28, 2002

"At that point, though, I'd seriously consider making it its own tool! (Besides which, I'd like to write another news aggregator engine that scanned, you know, not all at once and whatnot. And didn't double-decode.)" Marc comptemplates some ideas to improve on Radio's News Aggregator by creating a new engine or perhaps improving Kit's built-in news aggregator functions. 7:16:37 PM

"I find myself using weblogs as a great sources of information. Although they are personal opinions, they're also good filters on certain topics. I regularly visit a collection of weblogs that together cover the span of my interests. Each weblog filters out the relevant information from the web and hands them to me in handy format. Anybody who read David Gelernter's book "Mirror Worlds" (see a small review here) must recognize the similarities with what Gelernter calls "the trellis". The trellis is a dataflow architecture, a little like a stack of filters so that the users at the topic are not bothered by the massive amounts of small details but are able to get the information they need. With weblogs these filters are actual humans, and they are way better at sorting information than any piece of software. The way Radio Userland offers users the oppertunity to subscribe to eachothers weblogs (and automatically incorporate the other's writings) is an excellent example of the similarities. I built my own trellis out of the weblogs on the topics I'm interested in. These weblogs in turn might use other weblogs etc. In my eyes this is a very powerfull idea and that is why I'm a big proponent of weblogs... but...I have the feeling we can do more for users." Unfortunately, I am too much of an NT (non-techie) to understand what the heck Berco is talking about throughout the rest of his rant, but it seems like a wonderful experiment. Take a look at 2blog. (from Daypop Top 40)" [via "steven"] Oh...I get it.  Actually, I've thought of this concept myself at an extremely high level.  (Not to steal any of Berco's thunder on the idea.)  I'm searching for the post to my weblog  on the subject. (hmmm....no luck) Anyways, I originally conceived the concept as a 'portable device' contaning your blog software and data.   Portable meaning anything capable of storing both the application and the data and being accessible from a widely different number of devices.  Berco improves this concept to include as well other services based applications (~ GoogleAPI searching).  Even better yet, appearing to be somthing of a programmer, Berco's also got a working prototype. With Bero's setup you carry your applications & data on a Disk on a Key (a glorified USB memory chip) and plug-in the chip to any USB compliant device and presto - access to the services stored on the chip running in it's own device independent (relatively speaking) web service based application. It's kind of like being able to carry around the hard drive that contains your copy of Radio and then plugging it to any PC you want and being able to access the software from that PC.  That's actually a very crude look at it though.  The real power of this concept is that the portability of the data itself.  Not just the device that it's on. Exciting stuff! 9:00:15 AM

Friday, April 26, 2002

I need a xManilaBloggerBridge-like tool that hooks into Radio categories but posts via email instead of the usual options.  I know there is a builtin Frontier verb that email(ifies) a string just like you see at the Y! Groups Radio Userland site.  But how do I get from post to email through a given category? There has to be a way to add this to the functionality of the bridge.  That way Radio will take on the functionality similar to News Is Free and allow me to email a discussion group (or any email address) *and* send a copy to my blog as well. I know there are 3rd party products like http://www.bloglet.com, but what I want is the capability built right into Radio. 7:22:01 PM

Thursday, April 25, 2002

"Colin Faulkingham: "The DGWS server is a lot like a Group Weblog but structured more like an actual Discussion Group."" [via ScriptingNews]  This sounds kind of what you might need if you like the collaborative aspects of weblogging, but need the structure of a DG.  I can think of several uses...basically anything that isn't strictly time-based could use this.  Almost Wiki-like in a sense.  Very Wiki-like. 8:28:38 AM

"4/24/02; 10:03:33 AM by DW It's time to review how enclosures work. Matt Goyer asks some questions on the Radio-Dev list. Is automatic downloading of enclosures on by default? They are disabled by default. (See radio.init, search for user.radio.prefs.enclosures.flDownloadsEnabled.) I subscribed to my company's feed (http://radio.weblogs.com/0104001/rss.xml) which has a MP3 enclosure in it and received that enclosure twice. I've also received the same enclosure multiple times from Adam Curry's feed. Locations user.radio.prefs.enclosures radio.init RSS Enclosures prefs page radio.aggregator.downloadEnclosures Looks like Dave is revisting RSS Enclosures at the request of Matt from "EMWeblog" on double downloading issue.  I can't offer much here.  I have to trick my copy of Radio into downloads, since I'm  on a dial-up behind a proxy, it makes things a bit tricky as far as automated D/Ls are concerned.  That's all about to change...soon.  Satellite Broadband...so cool. Anyways...I think Dave should consider making the D/L setiings a bit more flexible.  The x hours after midnight thing may have made sense back in the stone-age  (2 years ago) of pre-broadband critical mass.  But today, it should be a matter of when ever we choose to allow Radio to perform the D/Ls. 7:53:59 AM

Monday, April 22, 2002

Added PicoSearch to the site so I could find things.  Thanks to Jenny @ The Shifted Librarian for the referal. 10:46:06 PM

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