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Feeds I Read

Mark Paschal: Stapler 2.2.1. [Scripting News] 

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activeRoll and mySubscriptions.opml. I've released a micro modification (2 lines) to activeRenderer's code today. This way, I can display the RSS feeds I'm subscribing to using an activeRoll. Check the left sidebar in the main page of my Salon weblog. [read more] [s l a m] 

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Question: Where should I look for Radio, tips, wishes and FAQs? Answer: 

• Userland Radio Discussions
• Yahoo Radio mail list
• My Radio notes.
• My Radio notes on Salon. (Mostly the same.)
• On right of Radio desktop Home page. (Radio must be running for the link above to work.)
• Russ Lipton Documents Radio
• Russ Lipton explains PicoSearch.
• Russ Lipton Wishes for the moon.
• I will add more as I hear about them.

[dws.us] [dws.] 

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Radio Tip: Until you have mastered the use of templates, put an HTML comment tag at the top of each one. Then, when you're looking at the published page in question, you can view the source code to see where the templates fit together. Example HTML Comment
[Andy Meadows: RadioFAQ] [dws.] 

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Radio Tip: Recent Titled Posts (Radio Nav Enhancement). Thanks to a head's up from Lawrence Lee at Userland, I'm testing out a list of titles of recent posts in the navigation column of this page. OK, the first try was ugly. I've now put .recentPostTitle and .recentPostWhen into the style sheet in the template with the same characteristics as the .small style. Let's see if that helps.... [Christian Crumlish (xian): Radio Questions] [dws.] 

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Question: How do you subscribe to the RSS feed for a single channel? [Radio Free Blogistan] Answer: RSS URLs follow this format: [blog root]/categories/[category name]/rss.xml
For example, Rogers' RSS feed is: http://www.pycs.net/workbench/rss.xml
and for his salonBlogTips channel: http://www.pycs.net/workbench/categories/salonBlogTips/rss.xml[Phillip Pearson]

~  Radio blog templates offer a Radio-XML coffee cup. When Radio is running on your desktop if you click on that coffee cup you should be one more click from subscribing to that page (category).  ~  dws.

[dws.] 

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New Version of activeRenderer Available.

Marc Barrot really impresses me. Not only has he developed an outstanding plug-in for Radio, he's committed to his users. Over the past week I've sent him a handful of e-mails, and each time I've had a reply - most times within an hour.

Last week, I decided to try to make his activeRenderer tool work as a blogroll replacement. Remarkably, he's now built it into the plug-in so you can render a blogroll using all the nifty user interface tweaks that make aR so nice. Benefits of the updated tool:

• You can now keep links in separate outline files - and use your master blogroll file to "roll them up" into one. Example:
  • Blogroll contains five top-level entries, each one a link to a sub-section of the blogroll. (In mine, these would be KM, Law Blogs, Radio tips and tricks, etc.)
  • Each of these sub-sections is a separate outline file (in Radio, these are stored with the OPML extension).
• You don't need to embed the blogroll in an iframe - which avoids having to create a work-around that I did last week.

If you want to know how to do this, read Marc's explanation here.

This looks like a great update. And Marc - I promise to read all the doc before e-mailing you again. :)

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 

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A Radio Overview. Marc Barrot sent me a link to this well organized overview of Radio's features and functionality. Starting to think about an information architecture for the non-blog parts of this site. [Radio Free Blogistan] 

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