Dog News: radio questions

dog quotes

Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:23:10 GMT

Happy New Year! Taking the next few days off ...

In the spirit of the new year, here's a free random quotes database I've been squirreling away for the past year. Every time I see a worthy dog or animal quote, I stash it here:

My random dog quotes

Right click on the link to download it! Radiolanders can use this script by Peter Backx to implement their own random script.

In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me. -- Mark Twain

Robert Scoble just donated his revised and improved Radioland template to the community...

Feed Demon rss reader

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:37:36 GMT

If you want a lean format for reading Dog News, try Feed Demon... hot stuff! I sent Nick Bradbury and crew a thank you card by snail mail. Radioland also incorporates a news reader with free subscriptions to top news sources and blogs. If you're really lazy and don't want to install an news reader, try a web-based news reader: The WebBlog serves up rss feeds in a simple, clean format. also try: DayPop, Syndicate, Newsisfree and Technorati...

rss feed readers

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:59:56 GMT

Who is KooQoo? and what are they doing with all those rss feeds: 858878 listing(s)...

'Fagan Finder'

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:35:34 GMT

Fagan Finder: a gem for webmasters and anyone who wants to harness the web's research powers. Michael Fagan's Fagan Finder, discovered via Microdoc News (another must read for researchers), is the cat's meow of search tools. Fagan offers a cut-and-paste search tool for webmasters: it's one link of javascript code, which his site does the heavy work of processing your search. You can customize the box easily with his snip-and-clip css and client-side scripting....

The more you dig around at Fagan Finder, the more you find... I haven't found any dogs here... nothing but gems. He has more improvements in the works for Fagan Finder search tools: "You'll notice that Fagan Finder Search Box only lists two so far: general and blogs. More will come..."

Google Ultimate Interface Michael says: "it's pretty crazy..." (woah... too much, too cool; why hasn't Google hired this guy... )
Web Page Information Viewer "It needs a few things taken out and a few added, but it is quite comprehensive."
What's Happening
RSS Search

Don't forget to subscribe to his Puzzle Pieces weblog ... a compendium of tips and inventions. This is your one-stop read... to keep up on web services news, google developments, etc. If you're like me, you're overwhelmed with information. No more worry! Go here and forget the rest ... until you're ready to face all those other feeds...

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:18:45 GMT

Jeff's Radio Weblog points to an article about the use of RSS feeds for Commerical profit by RSS aggregators from Martin Schwimmer.

Aggregators: I Would Like To Clarify Our Agreement. Martin Schwimmer: I am very happy to make an RSS feed of this web site available to aggregators who make NON-COMMERCIAL use of the feed.... ...My archives are available free on this site. Stop attempting to sell my content. [The Trademark Blog] [Jeff's Radio Weblog]

Dog News concurs with that sentiment. Further, the Creative Commons license on this news site prohibits commerical dot com sites from the same practice. Stop attempting to sell my content.

search blogs

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:45:41 GMT

Jenny of [The Shifted Librarian] found a great resource for sifting through your reading aggregator files and adding a search for your readers too:

Drat - I don't have time to add this to my site tonight, but I will next week. Micah Alpern has made it even easier to add his Search Blogs You Read engine to your site! Now called the Trusted Blog Search, you can use his mighty-fine, fill-in-the-blank wizard to produce code to copy and paste into your template. Excellent job, Micah! [Add the Trusted Blog Search to Your Site! The Shifted Librarian]

and another great rss searcher (blogs only) that is improving minute by minute: Roogle [The Fuzzy Group]

webservices

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:36:27 GMT

Get your blog to your handheld: Google Wireless Want Google on your handheld device? Google's Wireless WebSearch lets you browse a lot more than just webpages designed for phones and PDAs. [Cat's Clicks, TechTV]

Googlert expands services Now you can get your specialized google searches emailed to you or even in an rss feed, or in an html document. Have it your way.... amazing

HubMed 'web services'

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:52:54 GMT

HubMed: doggone best research tool An incredible research tool, designed for ease of use, now enables anyone interested in scientific and medical publications to find tasty nuggets of the latest research in their field. Not only does HubMed slice and dice Pubmed, it also provides rss feeds (available only under NCBI terms and conditions*), news which comes to you via email, citation matcher, etc. RIS formatted abstracts, mozilla-search plugins, email services, trackback comments, and links to the best scientific research on the web.

Thanks to HubMed's 'rewired PubMed', Dog News now provides a new service for dog lovers to follow the latest veterinary and canine research:

Updated Canine Medical Abstracts
(regularly updated because it's powered by HubMed. )
*(The copyright generally permits use for noncommercial educational purposes, such as teaching, research, criticism, and news reporting. It does not permit commercial exploitation of the services. Copyrights for the abstracts remains with the publishers.)

Other webservices provided by HubMed include Blogbrowser, Amazon Browser and of course, Hublog.

Opera 7.01 web security

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:10:19 GMT

If you're using Opera, get their new web browser, 7.01, released yesterday in response to a security alert published in PC World. If you buy Opera, they give you a free six-month subscription to their Premium 'Opera Mail.' However, their Premium email requires you to use javascript in email (not a good practice, since the most egregious security breaches occur during the use of java and javascript). Opera support says that since their Premium email vendor is a separate entity, they can't change it, so you're stuck. That's funny, since prior versions of Opera email allowed you to turn off javascript...

Opera thinks Microsoft is deliberating sabotaging their attempts to break into the web browser market. Well, Microsoft shouldn't bother... Opera is doing a good job of sabotaging itself, without any help. Most programmers don't want to worry about redoing web pages to meet another quirky browser's requirements. Joe Jenett just patched this site's Radioland template so it will work correctly when viewed with Opera. What bothers me is that I wanted to have the content appear first: you can't do that with Opera's browser (and that was the coolest part of the css design); no, to get Opera to behave, the outer columns must appear first... maddening... you might as well go shoot yourself in the other foot, Opera.

'Dave Barry' blogspot

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:01:14 GMT

woah, Dave Barry and Dog News use the same theme on blogspot.com. Jenny bemoans that Dave has no RSS feed; he can get one... it's simple to get an automagically generated feed on blogspot: just sign up at: syndic8.com and paste in a couple of identifiers into the them, so it can get 'scraped.' Syndic8 is a treasure trove of scraped feeds. [dave's blog found via The Shifted Librarian's rss feed.]

Our blogspot site is a shambles... due to the ever recurring incompatibility of blogger with the meta weblog api in Radio (try to say that three times fast). What I mean is that sometimes it won't post (this site's posts are supposed to stream to blogger, but it's always broken) OR even worse, the same post keeps reposting at blogspot, over and over and over... I've fixed it; then it breaks; fix... break... fix... break... I get bummed out when I visit our blogspot site... a myriad of problems there and I can't get answers to fix them. BUT, it is free and it got me started. Like many others, I fled blogspot for Radioland and I've never looked back... well, occasionally, I go over there to try to fix it... sigh... Dog News at Radioland is in much better shape...

new 'rss feeds'

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:29:30 GMT

Homebrew's RSS feeds: cool... (he has a bunch of google news feeds... and other goodies (found via radioland discussions) Thanks!

syndicate headlines

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 02:08:34 GMT

A great write-up: How to get your headlines syndicated by webdev tips [submitted by Dog News]

Googlert search Google

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:54:13 GMT

Googlert -- waaaay, way cool Somebody said Googlert was 'vanity googling.' I disagree. If you want to track a subject by website, Googlert may just be the ticket... or ... if you want to track new links to your website, Googlert can do that too. It pays to know some advanced search techniques... For example, to find all of the recent Radioland weblogs which are related to YOUR subject and yet don't include YOUR web site, try this: For example

Search 1: dog -inurl:0107233 January 2003 site:radio.weblogs.com

(The subject is dog, minus Dog New's weblog (by number), confined to this month and to Radioland)

'Creative Commons License'

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 00:28:14 GMT

Creative Commons Unveils Machine Readable Copyright Licenses Why you need a Creative Commons License [Shifted Librarian] Here's why I need Creative Commons License Gee, that's my xml right there and as you can see, Radioland receives the attribution. I found out about this through the all-knowing referer list (Radioland IS the tool that made it possible, and it couldn't have happened without Radioland, but Radioland didn't write it...) This is the reason the Dog News feed is truncated... [Daypop.com]

Alexa radio.weblogs.com

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:31:02 GMT

Wanna feel great and have a funny rating for your weblog? Go visit Alexa and search for your weblog's address. If you are hosted on radio.weblogs.com and you're too cheap to get a domain, you're in for a nice surprise... as we know, radio.weblogs.com has a 5 star rating. Your rating will default to radio.weblogs.com and you'll inherit all the ratings for radio.weblogs.com; Now, you can impress your friends by pointing them to your site's rating and the incredible number of inbound links. Aaarf... this is so funny, I'm going to put it in my stats opml... not bad for a dog... okay, so there. I left my mark... as dogs are known to do. [creative abuse provided by yours truly via phil ringnalda dot com] (everybody probably knows this already, but us dogs are busy with more important tasks.)