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Tuesday, April 16, 2002 |
Outliner Coffee Cup?
If I have a different coffee cup that I think will look better on my weblog, how do I change it? Right now it appears that the macro that points to the coffee cup is pointing to an image at radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/03/16/opmlMugTransparentGray.gif
Could this be right?
9:15:42 PM 
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What a Life!
Blame Howard Greenstein. He feels Radio documentation needs to pull together some of the different links and sites for finding RSS feeds.
Naturally, as I began this, I realized beginners also need the step-by-step for How To Enter or Confirm A Weblog Subscription. More to come soon to satisfy Howard.
(Yeah, not to mention a tutorial on the Google Box, a topic on Radio relative link management now that I have finished talking to Jake, implementing and then writing about a PicoSearch box for my weblog, documenting tempate fiddling using my Jenett theme as a framework ... and finishing up the newbie Install Guide. Meanwhile, I'm rereading Matt's Frontier book. Playing golf too.) [Russ Lipton Documents Radio]
6:04:15 PM
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How to learn?
I wish I understood all that was implied in these two posts. This is great stuff, but I'm about 6 light years behind in this race. It's a lot like listening to and watching a couple of doctors discuss some intricate problem with all the knowing nods and eyebrow raises that come with insider knowledge!
Outlines vs. outliners. I got some feedback from yesterday's piece, Investigating OPML, to the effect that "you just don't get outlining". On the contrary, I love outlines, and I love outlining. Virtually everything I write is an outline. I just don't like outliners. [diveintomark]
A note to Mark Pilgrim -- outliners are useful tools. [Scripting News]
5:18:00 PM
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Yes, but how?
Informacion de Venezuela did over 20k (page reads) yesterday! the weblog community will be at big pub levels soon. Time for microcontent advertisers to take notice! $0.10 a pageview for highly focused advertising would be nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Anyone got any clues as to how/why a 4-day old weblog manages to get this many hits in a foreign language? When I look at my own hits, I find that all of my attempts to edit my weblog and check comments, etc. are the major (and sometimes lone) contributors to my hit count.
4:25:46 PM
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Buffett on stock options
Warren Buffett wrote this article for the Washington Post last week. It may give you a clearer understanding of stock options, the shareholder's viewpoint, the employee's viewpoint and the accounting debate. Here's a teaser:
The argument, it should be emphasized, was not about the use of options. Companies could then, as now, compensate employees in any manner they wished. They could use cash, cars, trips to Hawaii or options as rewards -- whatever they felt would be most effective in motivating employees.
But those other forms of compensation had to be recorded as an expense, whereas options -- which were, and still are, awarded in wildly disproportionate amounts to the top dogs -- simply weren't counted.
2:09:04 PM
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Weblogs with no readers are not places to get questions answered! --Steve Pilgrim
1:01:47 PM
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FrontPage vs. PHP?
If someone says, FrontPage broke my home page so I switched to PHP, what does that mean? Is this another in that endless list of camp-wars that the technology industry wages so well? What's PHP? What are the issues? Does any of this have anything to do with that CSS thing that was debated? Somebody clue me in or tell me where to go! (to find the answers)
10:41:38 AM
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Categories, Titles & Google IT
The more I think I understand, the less I really do. First, about categories. I'm under the impression that there are 3 places I could go and change the name of a category:
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Whatever this screen is called - my weblog editor. There's a place below where I'm typing that allows me to set up new categories and edit old ones. I can change a category name there.
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Using Windows Explorer and navigating into the www folder, I can change the folder name for a category.
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In the Radio application there are things called "keys." I think there is a place in there that allows me to change the name of a category.
My question: is there any combination of these changes that will result in the category names I want with all prior posts revised to appear under that category name?
Clarification by example: A category is named myFriends. I want to change the name of the category to 'Ginny' and post things that I think Ginny would be interested in there. If the category called weblogs already tags posts that I think Ginny would like, can I change the category name in some way so that all those posts are now in the category called 'Ginny' AND if she navigates to the category using a URL address like http://radio.weblogs.com/usernum/categories/ginny. Right now, I know how to change the category name, but she would still have to navigate to http://radio.weblogs.com/usernum/categories/myFriends.
Titles - I guess I need to revisit this to understand why Jon would go to the effort he's describing here:
Rewriting titles to optimize information flow. Recently I spent about an hour reviewing and upgrading the titles of my postings here. Many of the items predated the titling feature, which was added on March 11. I know this because that's when I wrote Titled items added to Radio! Shortcut hyperlinking of phrases like that makes old content come alive, and is one way I was repaid for my trouble. Another was an immediate doubling of my storyList page which has, for me, replaced the calendar as a compact chronology of items. [Jon's Radio]
Google IT - I need to revisit this as well. What's the significance?
9:39:30 AM
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