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What's the point of categories?
I have several Radio categories (REALbasic and Baba are two examples) and I even update some of them regularly. But I'm beginning to wonder what the point is. It seems like a cheap way to have multiple weblogs. With Radio, you can't really have multiple weblogs without paying $40 for each one. But with Movable Type, you can set up one MT and add as many weblogs as you'd like. MT has limited support for categories but until they support the MetaWeblog API (which they claim they will do in version 2.01), MT categories have little appeal for me. So I'm thinking that ultimately I should get rid of categories and have multiple weblogs, if my weblog environment supports it. I bet I can keep the content on them separated better if they are different weblogs and not just different categories of the same weblog.
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Burningbird says "No" to Google
Burningbird is trying something new on her site. Well, actually a number of new things. One new thing is that she is moving her site to Movable Type. That's cool. I really like Movable Type. I threatened to move my site to MT before UserLand fixed the MetaWeblog bug. But I'm betting that I will have to move eventually.
The other new thing Burningbird is trying out is a no-Google site. You can do that by putting a robots.txt on your site. If that file is present and formatted correctly, then robots like the kind Google send out to index the web can be told to go away. That's what Burningbird has done. She's decided that Google adds no value to her weblog and that in fact it brings visitors to her site that don't really want to be there.
She may have a point. I'll have to think about that. Of course, I don't have control over the server my Radio weblog runs on, so I can't put a robots.txt file there if I wanted to. But if I ever move to MT running on my own server, then I'll have all the control I'll need.
9:42:53 AM #
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Radio Poster's Compose Field
Anybody who uses Radio Poster, knows that the typing in the compose field slows down the more stuff you type. The REALbasic guys claim that's a problem with Apple's text engine and that Apple is working on it. Perhaps. But I can do something about it myself. I can use WASTEfield instead of REALbasic's EditField. WASTEfield is a plugin by Doug Holton that wraps WASTE, a replacement text engine for Mac OS. WASTE is used in a number of applications on the Mac (including REALbasic itself) and is quite mature. It doesn't have a problem with slowdowns when typing, but it also doesn't use ATSUI, which is Apple's going-forward text engine on Carbon. Unfortunately, there are problems with using WASTEfield with REALbasic 4.0.2, the current version. The problems appear to be solved in REALbasic 4.5, but I'm not ready to build Radio Poster with an alpha version of REALbasic. As soon as I can start using WASTEfield, however, I should be able to do quite a few interesting things. WYSIWIG editing is one thing I'd like to add to Radio Poster. Then you could just make things bold, or italic, or whaterver, and Radio Poster will figure out the tags for you.
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2002
Will Leshner.
Last update:
4/28/02; 9:19:19 AM.
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