David emailed me this afternoon asking about the possibility of listing posts in a WordPress blog that belonged in a given set of categories. So, you could list all posts that belong in both “Category A” and “Category B”. Ironically, Ultimate Tag Warrior offers something like this for combinations of tags, but the native WordPress category interface doesn’t seem to do it. Some way of viewing /category/CategoryA+CategoryB should do the trick.
I’ve been thinking about this all afternoon, and it’s really starting to bug me. There must be a way to do this. Lazyweb, can you help me (and David)?
This is welcome news indeed! Greg Ritter has returned from his long, long silence, and has begun blogging again! I’m guessing Greg found it easier to go underwater during the whole Bb IPO and WebCT shindigs, but now that those things have been dealt with maybe he’ll be able to blog more often.
Excellent news, Greg. I’d been keeping your old blog in my subscriptions Just In Case™ and have already subscribed to your new one.
Paul just sent me a link to a cool sounding (but unfinished) project called code4lib session snatcher. It sounds like it’s a pet project of a systems librarian who was working on some code on a flight to the code4lib conference. The code is intended to act as a presentation recorder for the S5 presentation system, recording both slide timings and audio, and (presumably) packaging both up for playback after the fact.
Sounds like a pretty minor bump, with Flock going from 0.5.x to 0.5.11, but some really cool new features made it in. The Flickr browser topbar rocks. I mean, wow. That sucker is sweet. And a built-in Technorati info display topbar, to get a quick 10,000’ overview of a site as defined by external links. Very handy. They also updated the blog editor to use a local copy of TinyMCE, and it looks pretty darned nice (Categories aren’t sorted, though, and no Category search is implemented, making it a PITA to select one of my 304 categories for a new post…) and is FAST since it’s local. Feels like a native app. I thought it was a XUL thing at first, until I read the change log.
Another thinking-out-loud topic here… I’m re-evaluating weblogs.ucalgary.ca - what’s worked, what hasn’t, what could be done differently. It’s best to take a long, hard look at it before it really takes off. There are a bunch of users in it now, but a critical evaluation of it is pretty important before we get into the hundreds of users level… I’m also colouring evaluation in light of the PLE/EduGlu concepts being rolled around. Perhaps the need to have a communal blog hosting service on campus is less important, or unnecessary, if that function is pushed into an aggregator service where it should be, rather than in the hosting side of things.
The local evening news had a special virus warning tonight. Not especially unusual - they occasionally warn people about a Big Windows Virus that went around the week before. But Nirmala began the segment “This is the first virus to infect Apple’s Oh Ess Ecks… It’s spread through the ‘I-Chat’ instant messaging application… Be sure antivirus software is installed and up to date…” (I-Chat was in big letters on the side of the screen)
I’d tried Adium before, looking for a usable multi-protocol chat client so I could talk to my contacts on AIM/.Mac as well as ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk. I only have one or two contacts on each non-AIM protocol, so don’t want to be running separate apps for each. Adium was cool, but quirky, and it never “clicked” for me. It was annoying, with the silly duck icon, quacking alerts, etc. so I reverted to iChat (after trying Fire again - I swore by Fire before iChat was released).
In the latest round of updates to Blogbridge, they added support for hosting groups of feeds as OPML files. They also just added a service that renders every OPML file as a javascript, ala Feed2JS. So, you can easily embed any group of feeds from your copy of Blogbridge, into any web page, by putting in a simple javascript element. This is a pretty cool set of features. Yet another reason why I love Blogbridge :-)
I just grabbed a whiteboard for a couple minutes to start fleshing some stuff out for EduGlu. Here’s a quick and dirty whiteboard photo. It’s pretty rough, very incomplete, and barely legible. But, in the spirit of doing the whole shebang Out In The Open, here it is.. If only the SMART Boards we have laying around here were hooked up…
