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I'll have to try this to see where it's going -- a little difficult to visualize. But I can see how the abiltiy to quickly cross-reference topics along project, business function, or interest lines could improve usability.

liveTopics progress.
Only a week after I had hoped to release version 1.0 of liveTopics and I'm nearly there.
I've had a lot of good feedback from uber-testers Marc Barrot and Jack Mancilla. This thing should be pretty well shaken out when it arrives.
The basic functionality is now all in place. You can successfully add topics to posts, have them displayed with the post and traverse the weblog using the Topic Table of Contents (TTOC).
The TTOC, for example Curiouser and curiouser! shows every topic defined in the weblog. For each topic it lists the weblog posts associated with that topic, in chronological order. Each of these postings in turn lists the other topics associated with that particular posting. The end result is a very easy way to traverse the weblog following threads of thought.
Things that are in the pipeline just past v1.0:

Exporting topic information in your RSS stream.
Clever aggregators will be able to use this topic information to rank & prioritize postings in your news view.
Topic Mining
Quickly and easily add topic information to archive postings
Sharing topics
Your topics will be published as XTM topic maps.
Subscript to other users topic rolls and be able to use their topics as well
Please let me know of any other ideas you would like to see implemented.

[Curiouser and curiouser!]

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Fragen for Fewer Tags

1:48:19 PM

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A new Fragen script for testing.

Eliminating those damn multiple paragraph tags. I guess it's time to announce my solution to the problem of Radio inserting multiple paragraph tags into the rendered HTML.
My solution is a script called pLessFix. It's available at my Public Scripts.
What it does.
Once the script is installed it needs to be run. Running the script copies the builtin upstreaming scripts for both ftp and xmlStorageSystem into the user.radio.drivers.upstream folder where they are then modified. The modification searches for instances of multiple paragraph tags and replaces them with a single paragraph tag.
It does not change anything in your Radio.root. If you wish to uninstall the changes simply delete the tables from user.radio.drivers.upstream or you can uncomment the bundle in the script that says uninstall.
I hope others find this helpful. Let me know.
[Surgical Diversions]

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Category ftp, QuickScript Fix, and Progress But No Solution

11:29:03 AM

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Update: This is fixed. It is very important to be sure your path and url elements match in the upstream.xml file.
I have restored the main upstream using Lawrence Lee's Quick Script suggestion noted here. I have a Private category now upstreaming to pwd-protected directory on my own web server at tfrazier.org. But the private category isn't quite right just yet. I still have some bugaboos in the page layout.
The posts, blogroll, macros, etc seem to be working fine. But the Theme elements aren't getting called as expected -- i.e. the blue borders along the top and left side of the page are missing from the Private category page.
I have manually copied the contents of my /www/images folder to the images folder on the ftp site. And I have manually copied the #template.txt and #homeTemplate.txt files into the Private category folder. And I have republished the site. But it just doesn't seem to catch on.
I'll see if Lawrence has an answer.

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Incorrect URLs After Changing Upstream Locations

10:09:59 AM

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Lawrence Lee to the Rescue! Again. He should consider a career in tech support. ftp Munge is fixed because Lawrence very quickly pointed me to this quick script story that explains just how to fix the ftp muck-up I created while playing secret category publisher boy.
Hugh Madison should get get Sue into writing a Radio Blog. With the trouble I get in Sue would have non-stop mysteries to solve.
Update: I did find that I had to refresh my Navigator links in the Prefs. Even after running the Quick script and republishing the entire site my Home Page link in the Navigator Links was still pointing back to the ftp site. Refreshing the Navigator Links in the Prefs and republishing again seems to have fixed the problem.
Time to go build a bookcase...

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Render Multiple RSS feeds on One Page

1:27:04 AM

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How can you display the headlines of another blog on your own blog page? Use the xml.rss.renderWithTemplate verb built into RU. No, I do'nt know what that means. But the guy who authored this page does. I don't know who he is, either. I'll figure it out later.
But I do know it would be cool to be able to display other RSS feeds, maybe news headlines, a project ticker from a k-log, etc. on a page.
Ok, so I didn't go to bed yet. But I saw this in the discussion group and wanted to catch it before it got away.

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ftp Munge

12:37:01 AM

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Well, this just didn't work at all. Somehow a part of the image folder must have been deleted becasue the theme isn't right, even though it is displaying correctly on my Desktop Home Page.
A minor thing, the Cloud Link to my Home Page still reflects the errant url of the ftp site, not my Cloud Home Page. I can't seem to get it to reset.
Ok, I see (sort of) what happened here. In messing with the ftp stuff I incorrectly enabled the general ftp function from Prefs. This is the Big ftp function, the one you use if you want to move your whole weblog to another server.
That wasn't what I was supposed to do. I just wanted to send a single category to a separate server. But in changing the general ftp setting I must have reset the default paths Radio uses to generate its image links and macro settings. I can't get them to reset.
I have Radio upstreaming messages back to the Radio Community Server but it is still trying to pull things like images from paths on the ftp site -- that's why the page looks funny.
I posted a message to the discussion forum. Maybe someone can help me out. I'm going to bed.
Update: Instructions on how to fix this. Don't forget to refresh your Navigator Links in the Prefs after running the script and before re-publishing.

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