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Wednesday, June 19, 2002

Making Google part of every blog entry. David "Sputnik" Sifry has built a cool-ass Google API tool for his blog. Every entry on his blog is accompanied by ten links to related stories automatically discovered with Google (these ten stories are refreshed every time he updates his blog, though he could also put it on a timer). The integration is slick-tight, thanks to Movable Type's API, and David's published the source for his hack so that other intrepid Movable Typers can implement it. Link Discuss (Thanks, David!) [Boing Boing Blog] 11:52:09 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Hobo Nickel revival. Hobo Nickels -- Buffalo Nickels customized by rail-riding Depression-era tramps -- are back. Sam Alfano, an American engraver, has revived the lost art and is making fantastic Hobo Nickels like the Casey Jones portrait pictured here. Link Discuss (Thanks, Patrick!) [Boing Boing Blog] 11:46:58 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

New Theory of Cell Evolution Rejects Darwin's Doctrine [Scientific American] 11:32:24 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Adding a date to your Radio archive pages. Day 8 of Mark Pilgrim's "30 days to a more accessible weblog": Constructing meaningful page titles. Mark writes: "Every page of your weblog should have a unique and meaningful page title... Date-based archive pages should include the name of your weblog, followed by the date (or date range) for the page... "Unfortunately, I do not know how to customize page titles satisfactorily in Blogger or Radio. Radio has a <%longDate%> macro, but it can not be used as part of the page title..." It's true that longDate doesn't work in the template, but there is a way to do this. Here's how: 1. Edit your home page template. 2. Find the line (probably near the top) which reads: 3. Between <%title%> and , add the following macro: <%local (d); if radio.weblog.file.getArchiveFileDate (radioResponder.fileBeingRendered, @d) {": " + string.dateString (d)} else {""}%> Note: be careful if you copy and paste this code -- there should be no line-breaks. 4. Click the Submit button. The next time any of your archive pages are published, they'll have a date in their title. There's no need to stick with the default date format. You can format the date however you want -- Just replace the string.dateString (d) part with your own code. See the DocServer pages for the date and string verbs for some places to start digging. [Jake's Radio 'Blog] 11:30:47 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Gail Godwin. "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." [Quotes of the Day] [Jake's Radio 'Blog] 11:30:19 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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