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Archive for January, 2003

January 31st, 2003

New Radio feature for testing: Backup/Restore user interface. I just posted a note to the radio-dev list:

“We’ve got a new feature for testing: A user interface for doing a full backup/restore of your weblog posts, templates, stories, preferences and aggregator subscriptions…”

There’s also a new preference page for configuring automatic nightly backups. It’s a beta — please help us test it out, but only if you’re someone who’s comfortable running beta software…

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January 30th, 2003

Scoble on one way to monetize a Weblog. A Weblog community can be an excellent and inexpensive way to reach a very targeted market. Products like Macromedia’s Flash MX and Apple’s Mac OS X and Safari have Weblogs run by the product managers that naturally link into communities of interest because they do a good job of being an up-and-up resource with very low or no hype.

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January 30th, 2003

A (Maginot) line in the sand. I’m no fan of the Nation Review, but this Jonah Goldberg image cracked me up: Googling French military victories

(In case you want to test the query, yes, it’s fake, but it’s still hilarious.)

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January 30th, 2003

Blackboard and Weblogs.

I was just fussing at an instructor because he was making all his announcements permanent on Blackboard, when I realized that this is pretty much what a weblog does.  It shouldn’t be hard to add RSS and the metaweblog api to the announcements page of a Blackboard course via Building Blocks (this is my pet project of the moment, assuming that I get time and can learn enough Java – I’m off to the users conference in February, so I might learn something there).

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