Category: Customizing

Bloglet is dead, long live FeedBlitz. I’m trying out a new email-subscription service on this blog. If it works right I’ll probably add it to all my blogs. It seems pretty straightforward. If you’re interested, scan down the sidebar for the section called “Subscribe to RFB” and submit your email address. Then let me know…

Nick Lewis has unveiled a few tweaks to Drupal (which is also the basis for CivicSpace), which presents the navigation scheme as nested tabs across the top of the browser window instead of expanding and collapsing text links in a floating box in one of the margins. I’ll be adopting this improvement for all my…

Quoting from bookmark this: I’ve added a little bit of code to add a “Bookmark This” link on every post, next to the Comments link, which allows you to kick the user over to to the del.icio.us posting page. There are two pieces to this little hack. First, you can link to http://del.icio.us/post with a…

This is what I’ve been waiting for: Rmail – subscribe to any RSS feed by e-mail Reader John Tropea has pointed out a new RSS e-mail subscription service called Rmail. I’ve set it up at right to replace the dysfunctional Bloglet. When you enter your e-mail address in the box and click Subscribe, it will…

I’ve long thought that blogs/RSS and email need to interoperate more smoothly. The problems generally revolve around text formatting issues, but there’s no good reason why one shouldn’t be able to get RSS via email easily, post to blogs via email easily, etc. In fact, Blogger offers both email input and output as a basic…

My friend Scot runs a hosting service at birdhouse.org and I’ve got a little skunkworks operation over there at brokeland.biz. I’ve decided that I’m ging to use that domain name and server to begin with for my mailing list needs. I’ve got an x-pollen@brokeland.biz list set up and soon I will offer a way for…

First of all, I am rewriting this because I drafted it yesterday and then needed to reboot my browser (it was Mozilla at the time) and forgot/failed/missed the chance to copy-and-paste the draft to a safer place. In the past I’d have used kung-log, now ecto, to keep the user experience a little more desktoppy,…

I’m trying to get the hang of the mod_rewrite module of my Apache web server. This enables me to trap certain URLs or patterns of URLs and rewrite them to point somewhere different on the back end. This has two practical benefits: It makes migration from an old path or permalink scheme much easier to…

TypePadista community catalyst and culture kitchen creator Liza Sabater is having a ball with TypePad and documenting what she learns as she goes on her TP blog, burudanga. In fact, I may have to add burudanga to my short sidebar of other metablog feeds. I just landed on b u r u n d a…

Dylan Tweney reports on his own fairly ingenious blogroll solution. He has set up his blogroll (with categories, no less) as a new blog in Movable Type and even used the extended-entry capability as an optional RSS-feed link field for his blogroll entries. I like this approach and may adopt it! At this point you’re…

Brainstorms and Raves gathers a number of resources to help you generate Friendly, Lasting URLs. [via daily Anil]

I wasn’t sure if TypePad had its own tagbase or used the same tags as Movable Type. It appears that the latter is the case. For help integrating MT tags into TP, check out authenticgeek’s Howto: Use MT Tags in TypePad! (the first in a series). Meanwhile, the “Six Apart is to blogging as Apple…

Governor Cashmore’s Diary, a thinly veiled roman á clef by the president’s brother, ceased publishing back in November, so I have removed it from my subscription list. The Raven is on hiatus and for now I am keeping that subscription alive in case he returns. Pesky the Rat moved a while back to a custom…

Matt Haughey has published a much needed article (Beyond the Weblog) explaining how to power an entire site with Movable Type. Now if I could just get off my ass and interview the Morning News guys about their fiendishly clever MT template implementation like I’ve been meaning to for nearly a year now I’d be…

I wanted the blog/news feeds I subscribe to in Radio to show up in my sidebar. When I was publishing this weblog with Radio that was simple. It just involved inserting a macro ([%radio.macros.mySubscriptions ()%] but with angle brackets, not square ones) into the appropriate place. To get it to show up here was more…