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I think it is now possible to find out who is subscribed to your RSS feed using the new Web Bug Simulator feature. From this page, which lists the top 100 XML feeds subscribed to by the Radio community, I found Jonathon Delacour. When I followed his link, I arrived at a page that lists referer rankings for Jonathon. But the list looked different from what I'm used to when I click on the referers link on my desktop website. This new page had weblog names instead of URLs. Looking at the URL for that page, I realized that I was looking at referers for Jonathon's site grouped by RSS feeds. In other words, these were the people subscribed to Jonathon's feed. I'm on that list! So I changed the URL to point to my site, transcendental petroglyphs, and I arrived at this page, which shows the people subscribed to my RSS feed. Well, person, in my case. I have only one brave weblogger subscribed to my site. Thanks :)
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This "wilderness" theme is growing on me. Oh. I get it. Plants. Growing. It's a joke :) Anyway, I thought I saw a BGCOLOR on the body tag when I was messing with it and sure enough, there is a very faint greenish tint to everything. I like that too!
3:54:33 PM #
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Burningbird has a really interesting editorial on RSS and the publish-and-subscribe paradigm. To me, her most interesting point is this:
Part of the weblogging process to me is visiting each person's unique site. The words and the surroundings form a unified whole that communicates more than just the words themselves. I like being notified when a person's weblog is changed, and check weblogs.com regularly. But to strip a person's thoughts and plunk it into a queue that gets spit out to me on this plain white background -- this isn't a true group forming and communication process, is it?
I've subscribed to all of my favorite webloggers and their posts appear in my news aggregator. I never visit their sites. Except for Burningbird. I have never been able to figure out how to subscribe to her weblog. Perhaps, by design, I can't. I have to visit her site "in person" in order to read her posts. Hers is the only site I visit, and if I didn't visit I wouldn't get my daily dose of orange.
Burningbird has made me reconsider my weblog subscriptions. I like the news aggregator because it makes it easier to post a reply. I just click the "post" button and make my post. Easy as pie. Perhaps too easy. Perhaps I should have to go to the site and see the post in its proper context before I am allowed to comment on it.
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I decided that the text input area on my Radio desktop homepage was just too narrow. I figured I could change it in Radio so I hunted around looking for where to do it. I stumbled upon system.verbs.builtins.radio.userinterface.editorbox, which appears to build the <textarea> tag for the form. That verb takes a height and width. The height defaults to the value of a pref stored at user.radio.prefs.browserBasedEditorSize but the width just defaults to "70". So I added a default for the width as well, which I called user.radio.prefs.browserBasedEditorWidth and modified the verb's definition as follows:
on editorBox (initialtext = "", ctrows = user.radio.prefs.browserBasedEditorSize, ctcols=user.radio.prefs.browserBasedEditorWidth)
I saved the verb and tried it out, only to find my text box the same width. I thought about it a bit and decided to click the verb's "compile" button. That seems to have done the trick. Now my text box is wider.
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2002
Will Leshner.
Last update:
3/5/02; 9:58:07 AM.
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