Brian Carnell (via JRobb): Knowledge Logging with Conversant
- or how Conversant uses meta data to allow easy retrieval and categorization of articles on Coversant websites such as Brian's. Radio Userland has a similar facility. In RU, articles categorized into one or more categories. The overall blog has ALL articles from ALL categories AND each category has an HTML file and a corresponding RSS file. Therefore if you only want info about Lisp, then all you have to do is subscribe to the RSS file for Lisp and/or browse periodically the HTML file for Lisp.
HTML files for a particular category are at:
www.rolandtanglao.com/categories/<category_name>.html
RSS files for a particular category are at:
www.rolandtanglao.com/rss/<categoryname>.xml
e.g. in my particular blog, this article was classified by me, the site editor, in the following categories: KLogs, SiteNews and WebCMS The HTML files are at:
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/categories/klogs.html
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/categories/sitenews.html
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/categories/webcms.html
And the RSS files are at:
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/rss/klogs.xml
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/rss/sitenews.xml
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/rss/webcms.xml
Of course if you don't care about specific categories and want everything I blog about, the all inclusive general blog HTML and RSS are at:
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/ (HTML)
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/rss.xml (RSS)
Who decides on the categoris? A: me, because it's my blog!
How do I know what categories there are so I can subscribe to the ones I like (assuming I don't subscribe to the general all category blog)? A: surf to http://www.rolandtanglao.com/categories
Ideally RU would automatically create an index.html page under the categories directory with the one line blurbs but this is a feature request!
Another feature request would be for RU to put the category name as meta data (or allow users to specify arbitrary meta data on a per category basis) in the individual HTML files for each category.
3:22:34 PM 
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