GIGO: words unreadable aloud Mishrogo Weedapeval       Friday 8 March 2002 bc8 -- Walk up the ridge Nice weather this afternoon. Took the dog for a walk up the ridge. Our neighbors to the north have 5 acres, and their house is at the far end of it. Most of that land, as well as the land behind us, is a chapparral ecosystem: mostly low bushes like manzanita, chamise, and the occasional Coast Live Oak as well as a few Ponderosa Pines. About 100 yards of gradual climb gets me to the ridge, then the trail along the ridge affords some fine views of the pine- and redwood-covered hillsides. The ground, though, is sand. Beach sand. I've lived here for almost 20 years now; I never get tired of walking right out the back of the back yard onto the unpopulated open space land that extends in that direction for miles and miles ... 11:54:16 PM   comment/      RSS, long and short entries Jonathon Delacour had a lot of interesting stuff to say about weblog entries, be they brief or extended, and about the corresponding RSS feeds. Several people added comments about his piece. One small snippet: The answer seems simple: offer the option to publish the title but not the content to RSS. Michael points to a side benefit: "It would give the art of writing headlines a whole new life." This sounds like a reasonable option, but I'd really prefer the RSS reading software to allow me to decide how much of the text of a given RSS feed I'd like to see. Joe's comment on Jonathon's piece put it this way: The ability to summarize, abstract or otherwise trim long content from an RSS feed is just an option I as a user should be looking for when I choose my software. I use weblogs.com-on-the-desktop more often than I read the News/RSS page. It allows me to visit the sites of interest -- it seems somehow more respectful of the site author, and gives me a more visual mental picture. But there are two w.c-o-t-d behaviors that I'd like to improve: One is that people's published categories appear as separate weblogs, and their titles lack context. E.g., there's one simply called webDevelopment but it's actually a category from a weblog called A Frog in the Valley. I guess what I'd like to see here is for w.c-o-t-d to be able to point out when one of its weblogs is a category, and possibly place the categories close to their parent weblogs. The other w.c-o-t-d behavior I'd like to change is to add a way for me to go through the whole list (it's in the weblogsComData.weblogs table -- Radio users can look at it via the Windows menu -> weblogsComData.root) and put my own annotations on each member of the list. I think a small set of flags would do for the annotations: Don't ever show me this one again Haven't looked at it yet Already in my Favorites list And some UI in the w.c-o-t-d window, that lets me set those flags, either per weblog or for "all the rest of the ones that I see here this hour". More thought (and better wording) needed... 6:17:07 AM   comment/      © Copyright 2007 Doug Landauer . Last update: 07/2/6; 12:01:34 .

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