During the compiling of the Media Things sideblog listing, if an MTAmazon keyword search fails then the entry is not displayed.
Need to fix that, so films like The Corporation, which will someday come available, but have no ASIN yet, will be displayed.
During the compiling of the Media Things sideblog listing, if an MTAmazon keyword search fails then the entry is not displayed.
Need to fix that, so films like The Corporation, which will someday come available, but have no ASIN yet, will be displayed.
Just a link to generate a trackback ping for testing
Need to put a decision/switch statment in the <ahref> ctag macro which will simply replace the ctag content back to the page, rather than just blanking it out.
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Gotta get a bit more into this.
cOUNTER fLOW is a sideblog intended to generate a list of links in a sidebar. You'll see it performing its intended job lower down in the sidebar of the index page. However, it didn't take long for it to grow into a regular blog, with categories, RSS feeds, comments, the whole lot.
If you would like priviliges to post links in cOUNTER fLOW, you'll first have to cut your teeth in the eJournal Message Forums. A few dozen entries should be enough for us to determine whether your editorial sense is what we're looking for.
Continue reading "Posting to cOUNTER fLOW"The template currently in use is the NoMad Man version. Need to update this. Should create a new IndexedEntry module and incorporate the phpbb comment engine integrations.
Gotta figure out blogrolling. Only have one friend who runs a blog @ http://www.brainnoodles.com/, but I've been noticing some blogs worth acknowledging from this site.
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/26/rss_20_template
It's making my head spin too much to try and deal with this now.
Haven't posted for a bit, but I certainly haven't been idle.
Finished off the general design and implementation for a couple sideblogs, MediaThings and cOUNTER fLOW. You'll see them in the sidebar of the main index page of every blog.
Also did a bunch of work to the main index sidebar and set it up to be the default on all blogs.
One of the cute little upgrades is to provide RSS feeds by category. Thanks to the girlie matters for that. If you choose to implement that, I've got a couple suggestions for editing the default RSS template to make the feed a bit more informative. I'll post them in this blog when I have the time. (Or sooner if someone asks me to.) RSS is still making my head spin.
Still trying to figure out why some blocks in the sidebar bleed into one another in IE. Doesn't happen in Netscape where all blocks remain distinct. Can't see a difference in the code between blocks that work and blocks that don't. Things that make ya go, hmmmm.
Oh yeah, finally got around to acknowledging (most of) the MT plugins that power these blogs. Thanks!
- My Messy Workbench
- This blog, which is where I test and work on my blogs, post hacks, mods and plugins that I install, write reviews and post my todo/toodone lists.
- NoMad Man
- Is a more literary blog, where I write about various subjects.
- Media Things
- This is a sideblog, which means it's primarily designed to create links to appear in the sidebar of the main index. You'll see it in the sidebar on this page. However, I've upgraded MediaThings to function as something of a sideways blog. That is, it can stand on its own. In this form, I use it for posting reviews of various books, films and records I read, view or listen to.
- cOUNTER fLOW
- This one is a full-blown sideblog, though I may upgrade it to function like Media Things. For now I just use it to post interesting links, typically to dissent/activist pages I like.
Simply providing the author/artist and album/book title in the keyword search isn't doing it -- I keep getting books instead of DVDs and audio CDs.
Fortunately, that's just rewriting a Macro or two (er, four).
- you can receive email notification whenever someone posts a new comment to a particular blog entry.
- you can receive email notification whenever a new entry is posted to a blog.
Some good reasons for using phpBB as your Movable Type comment engine.
| Posted at 11:08 PM | Notebook, Reviews |
