Wednesday, October 02, 2002

Reminder to Self: Check this out.. tag board. Radio Answer: how to add a free 'tag board' to your weblog. [Dog News: radio questions] [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ] 8:39:51 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

[RadioFAQs] Radio Tip: ... You're in your favorite Search Engine, and you only want to look in weblogs, not the whole internet.  Here are some links you might want to check out. http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/ - Did Yah know that Google had this page just for searching what's been posted on Weblogs ??? Blog Hop knows about almost 12,000 weblogs Eatonweb categorizes 7,000 weblogs by content and other criteria http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/ = 3,000 weblogs by subject matter http://www.diarist.net/registry/ = 6,000 weblogs by nationality Yahoo has directories of approx 1,000 personal weblogs My earlier collection of Search Engine Tips; relevant Tools for Radio; and in my Radio Doc Sources, check out Sebastien Paquet on directories by profession. [Al Macintyre: e Radio Ideas] [Don W Strickland: RadioFAQ] 8:36:47 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

What evidence to seek to confirm a successful inital Radio post for a new month. If you are using Radio for your blog, the following table indicates critical entries (and their proper order) that you might see in your Events page, after making a successful initial post for a new month. Many Radio users may not be aware of all the events that must happen for a successful post to occur, or how to determine if the events actually did happen, or if a problem has occurred (which might be easily fixable by republishing that post again). I have pulled the data out of my own Radio Events Log from yesterday, so that the evidence of a successful post might be available for others to check the results of their own postings. Being able to see what should happen, and what files get upstreamed may prove helpful to others trying to troubleshoot their own blogging experiences with Radio. (NB: I have reversed the chronology of these events, as they would appear in the actual Events log page, so this reads a little more easily from top to bottom.) Event What happened Time Secs Weblog publish gRadio. 11:59:59 AM 0.005 Weblog publish gRadio; 10/1/02. 12:00:06 PM 0.316 Upstream 5 files: index.html, 01.html, week39.html, index.html, rss.xml. 12:00:34 PM 13.833 Weblogs Notified Weblogs.Com that your weblog updated. 12:00:36 PM 1.016 Upstream 25 files: 01.html, 02.html, 03.html, 04.html, 05.html, 06.html, 08.html, 09.html, 10.html, 11.html, 12.html, 13.html, 14.html, 15.html, 16.html, 17.html, 19.html, 20.html, 21.html, 22.html, 23.html, 24.html, 25.html, 26.html, 27.html. 12:02:06 PM 85.015 Upstream 3 files: 28.html, 29.html, 30.html. 12:02:21 PM 8.983 This post was sent (to the front page of this blog and it's RSS feed) via a wireless network attached to a fat Internet pipe, so the amount of time in the secs column can vary widely. I have my copy of Radio set to log all events, ping Weblogs.Com after making a home page post, enabled the weekly and monthly archives, and this particular post was not sent to any categories, or else those pages would also be present in the events log. Radio users should check their Prefs pages for how to change these settings. YMMV. Do not fold, spindle, tear or mutilate. Yadda yadda yadda. I almost always see the publish events. A lack of both publish events, however, is an indicator that a problem occurred (for these particular settings and conditions), and I should attempt to republish the post to fix it. Likewise, I'll try to republish again if the index pages, the archive pages, the RSS feed file, and all day pages for the month's prior posts (or in the case of the initial post for a new month, all of the day pages which contained a post for the previous month) did not get upstreamed successfully. Hope this helps someone. [Update: Ironically, I've had to republish this post, so you can see it everywhere it should be. Thanks, Murphy. ;-) ] [gRadio] 8:33:49 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Educational Outrage. is Roger Schank's occasional column on the evolution of education. Also check out Schank's very interesting hyperbook "Engines for Education", about "what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and especially, about the role of educational technology in that reform". The book is structured into short hyperlinked snippets, which allows for self-directed exploration. I really like that. See the connections out of and into this particular page that I wandered into, on "How You Know Things Without Trying". I'd probably do well to dig deeper into this. I'll try to do it when education-related questions come up to my mind and see where it'll take me. (via Remolino) [Seb's Open Research] 8:10:36 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Things to Research: Wondra Flour 9:39:26 AM    trackback []     Articulate []