Here's a list of questions Dave is asking his candidates. I like that they aren't condusive to sound bites. I don't think many of them will answer the mary-jane question.
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Send Steve to BloggerCon Update #2
Send Steve to BloggerCon Update #2
I've received my first donation and I've updated the tote board under the donate button. Every bit helps. John, thanks for the vote of confidence!
Pito says there room for better blog readers [via Scripting News]
Pito says:
[snip]
There are a bunch of toy and quasi-toy and a few good blog readers out there but there's lots of room for innovation. Let's get some folks together who are interested in that!
Dave writes about his impending trip to follow candidates for President through New Hampshire. Maybe he needs a link for contributions to his trip: Send Dave to New Hampshire!
Send Steve to BloggerCon Update
Send Steve to BloggerCon Update
Dave Winer has bent the readers of Scripting News toward the site. Category is setup and has a complimentary RSS feed. (Thanks Radio!)
I'm pursuing a local business newspaper as a sponsor. They have no idea what RSS is, but understand subscriptions and have heard of “weblogs”.
Dave gave my BloggerCon mission a boost!
Thanks, Dave!
Steve Kirks: “Send Steve to BloggerCon!” Yeah! [Scripting News]
Don Park: Death of E-mail?
I read this and agree with Don. I feel *exactly* the same way.
Death of E-Mail? When I send an e-mail now, I no longer feel sure of it being read by the receipient.
Joe inspired me to take a different approach to Blogshares. through gifts and no sales, plus playing Joe's game, I was able to increase my Blogshare worth and take my blog private. It was fun. I've subscribed.
I've created ShareBlogs as the new home for Joe's-slightly-less-crazy-but-fun-nevertheless game and should be moving forward with it soon. Hope to see some of you players there… ;~)
I have done it!
[Insert trumpet flourish]
After reading this post about how Technorati works, it was suggested that you ping the Technorati RPC server so it knew that you were around. I wanted to this with every post and asked some questions on my weblog in this post.
Well, I spent some time inside Radio and have figured out a solution. I wanted the correct Technorati URL to automatically populate the “URLs to Ping:” box on the desktop website. Here's a short description of how it's done.
[this is all at your own risk. I'm a Radio novice and you probably shouldn't take my advice. Ask Jake first.]
Open the Radio application. Go to the Tools menu and choose Developers…>Jump… Type radio.macros in the dialog box and click OK. You are now looking at a list of Radio's built in macros. Scroll down to near the bottom of the list to find “weblogPostForm”. This macro generates the weblog post form (duh!) found on the desktop website home page. Open the macro and look for some text that says “bundle //trackback URLs to Ping box” This is the “bundle” of code that takes the generates the “URLs to Ping:” text box and assigns the contents to a variable when the form is invoked.
Now that we are in the right place, here's where we make a change. Remember, if you screw this up and destroy your copy of Radio without a backup, it's your own fault.
Open the bundle (on a Mac double click the triangle). Open the subheading of the bundle. You should see the first line of code start with “add(“. Look for the HTML tag “text area”. It's inside this text area of the form box that we will add some text. This will allow it to autopopulate the form each time. Now, inside this tag, look for a formating part that looks like this:
wrap=\”soft\”>
Add the Technorati URL (http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping) to the right of the “>” symbol.
Close all of the Radio app windows. Restart Radio, if you like.
Reopen the desktop website home page. Now, when you post articles using the desktop website, the Technorati site will get a ping, along with the trackback URLs.
Questions? Comments?
Send Steve to BloggerCon!
Send Steve to BloggerCon! I have set up a PayPal account to accept donations for BloggerCon. There's a link button on the right of the page, just under my photo. I'm no Bryan Bell, but I think the point gets across. Button donations are accepted too.
Why Send Me?
I am a technology person with a customer service background. I can give you, the loyal reader (wink), a newbie's perspective of some of the famous and not so famous in the 'blogging world. I'll provide updates during travel, before-during-after the day's events, plus any extras (after hours dinners and the like). I'll take photos, too, and post them here. I think that I can offer everyone something of value, worthy of a few dollars and their time to read the posts.
While I work as a technology consultant for NuVox Communications, this is a little out of the realm of voice and data networking solutions. This means I'm on my for expenses, hence donations.
What will this cost?
Estimates as of 8/16/03: $500 for the conference, $500 for airfare, $450 for hotel (3 nights), $150 for food, and $200 for car rental. Add it up and you get $1800. Add a 10% factor for unforseen circumstances, and now you're talking some real money.
What happens if you get enough to go?
I'll post a note here, create another category in Radio with a separate RSS feed and start posting info, comments and the like.
What happens if you don't make enough?
I'm trying local sponsorships, too. I'll post the current donation amount under the button, so you'll have a tote board of sorts.
What happens if you get a lot more than you need?
With a running total, that shouldn't happen, but I will donate the remainder to my local food bank, Ozarks Food Harvest. They give groceries and financial help to the needy in the southwest Missouri region.
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