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09/14/2004 18:16 #29964

New News feeds
I added about 10 new rss news feed to the rss box. If you need something to write about, you have no excuses now, haha. I will be making the box public to non-logged in users shortly and adding features so you can pick your default feed and add them to the list. Thanks for the syndic8 link (e:sqb) !

>>Posted By: paul

09/14/2004 13:49 #29963

Updated Site Statisics
I added site statistics to the (e:info) journal's link list. Here are the current statistics, you can view up-to-the date statistics on the (e:info) journal.

~SITE STATS~
Users Signed-up: 131
Users Confirmed: 128
Users With Text: 98
Total Journals: 4954
Images Uploaded: 1805
Sounds Uploaded: 8
SWFs Uploaded: 12

>>Posted By: paul

09/09/2004 18:55 #29962

RSS feedback
Here is the situation the rss which now includes images and line returns using HTML markup. This irritates the hell out me, because I feel that it is leaving the original point of rss, simple syndicated news text and replacing it with little web page feeds. Why not just visit the site if you want style and images, right? Well, a bunch of people have asked me for the images. This leads to the problem where I have to put the entire entry text into CDDATA to blog it from being validated. Those of you that understand this, what do you think?

I mean it is convenient to have the rss feed serve the images, but then having HTML markup in the feed makes it not as "tasty" for others to syndicate. Mmind you other people are doing this all over. For example boingBoing.net, my favorite news on rss at

They even use styles and css. Should I have two feeds?

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/09/04 18:01

09/09/2004 03:53 #29961

Busy with Updates
I have been working on more of the behind the scenes stuff on the site. Thanks to some bug reports from (e:sqb) , I decided to work on the rss feeds.

The feeds are now rss 2.0 compliant, have the proper links, and proper time. Ialso added parapgraph returns and images as requested by (e:chris) and his sidekick.

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(e:sqb)

Thanks, Paul...I like the new "preview" mode with images and returns but for some reason the entries in my reader are all off by +1 hour.

What reference do you use to code for RSS?

- mike

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/09/04 02:54 >>Updated By: sqb 09/09/04 08:48

09/07/2004 19:09 #29960

Participate in Reality TV Study this Thu
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Participate in this Reality TV study.

Bring friends! Win a raffle! Or at least get 5 bucks...

WOMEN 25-35 wanted for reality TV study. Receive $5 plus entry in gift certificate raffle.

Sept 9 at 6pm. Medaille College , Parkside Ave & Rte 198, main building, rm SC217. Call 645-6902 x 1480 and leave a message.

The number above is to Prof Wegenstein's office. You can also call me, (e:holly), directly at 308-3812 if you have any questions. It's this Thursday at Medaille.
Thanks for your time. Hope to see you there!
Cheers, (e:holly)

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 09/07/04 18:13 >>Updated By: radio 09/07/04 18:17