Category: Weblog Concepts

  • MLK, San Francisco student-published newsblog

    MLK News: Out and Back describes itself as “San Francisco’s first student-published newsBlog.” (via John Robb)

  • Sample code for focused custom Google search

    The site search feature of Google’s free custom search offering works by default only for sites whose addresses are root-level URLs (so, for example, you can use it out-of-the-box to search jrobb.userland.com or blogs.salon.com but not blogs.salon.com/0001111/). With the help of Ian Landsman and a few other readers over the weekend, I’ve come up with…

  • Blogroll feature wishlist

    Because I like it when things work automagically… I was wishing today for a widget that would make note of whenever I add someone to my blogroll and possibly post a little summary (linktext, hovertext if any, with link of course) that I could annotate. I keep thinking that blogroll links would be more valuable…

  • School board campaign blogging

    Is anyone keeping track of campaign blogs? Everyone knows about Tara Grubb (thanks to Dave and others). Here is an example of a more local-level campaign. I haven’t read the site in detail but it appears well organized and thought out (look at the links down the left side.

  • One solution to Google site search

    Have I mentioned lately that I love the Internet? Cast a question on the waters and the answer (or an answer) generally comes back within 24 hours. Ian Landsman sent me a solution in the comments to my previous post. I’d paste the code in here but even when escaped out it will cause problems…

  • Still working on a search form

    Well, here’s the thing: To limit custom Google searches to just content from the root of this specific blog, I need to pass the string inurl:0001111 (that’s my Radio usernum) to the form handler on the Google end. I think I need to go back to web forms school, because I’m stymied. As I see…