Archive for January, 2004

Unfurling Furl with NetNewsWire

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

Composing with NetNewsWire makes it easy to select brief content and to
surround it with commentary. With spell check and customizable tags,
it’s an almost perfect writing program. But what if the site to be
blogged has no RSS feed? Well, just “Furl” it and use NNW to subscribe
to your personal account’s RSS feed. Some Java magic,
and a Furl list can become a blog within a blog.

And so here’s
a reference to Marjorie’s Catalog,
an NPR library intern’s blog, providing excellent snapshots of research
in process. With a few clicks, the un-RSS-ed site is posted and
categorized on three blogs. [Patrick Delaney's
Archive
]

OK, so maybe McCain and Powell will endorse Kerry?

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

“US Secretary of State Colin Powell has conceded that Iraq may not have
possessed any stocks of weapons of mass destruction before the war last
year.” - BCC News

Learning Movable Type

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

“???Movable Type??? I should keep up on how to best use it. Thus, I’ve subscribed to Learning Movable Type Impressive and comprehensive.” [Library Stuff Stephen Cohen]

Librarians’ Index to the Internet has RSS

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

“I hate to have too much cross-posting, but I haven’t seen this on other library weblogs yet. Karen Schneider and crew over at LII have started an “official” RSS Feed. This deserves both a Hip Hip Hooray and a Suhweeeeeeet!???” [Library Stuff Stephen Cohen]

From the horse’s mouth

Monday, January 19th, 2004

“Howard Dean: “We came in third.” [Channel Dean]” - A story to watch here is Kerry’s veterans organizing. What if that was combined with Dean’s organizing?
more…

Leaky policies about leaking

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Nothing more need be said: “Number of days between Novak column outing Valerie Plame and announcement of investigation: 74 days. Number of days between O’Neill 60 Minutes interview and announcement of investigation: 1 day. Having the administration reveal itself as a gaggle of hypocritical goons???” [Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall]

Hating Weblogs

Thursday, January 8th, 2004

Kairos points to “A student in Indiana State University’s Center for Biological Computing [who] makes it quite clear in an extended and profane — but engaging — piece of writing why he or she really doesn’t like personal weblogs.” But, sigh, there’s no RSS feed.

Sebastian Fiedler is back

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

and says: “??? to all friends, colleagues, collaborators, readers, commenters, and occasional visitors. In my little corner of this world a very turbulent period is slowly coming to an end???” [Seblogging News]