3rd February 2002: "Blog the Organization : Shelved My agent has spent a few months pitching "Blog the Organization" to publishers, and he's received no more than a lukewarm response. A few months ago I switched from an "All About Weblogs" approach to one that emphasized "Weblogs for Business." The latter generated a bit more interest, but still not enough. And it wasn't as though the publishers were ignorant. We encountered some that had a clear understanding of weblogs. Ultimately, I think the publishers are right, and that there isn't a sufficient market to justify the effort."

 

Surprising news. But I guess the cluetrain is too much for most companies. But some, some will give it a whirl. Perhaps not big enough for a book publisher, not yet. 20 years perhaps. So would that mean that some companies would be 20 years ahead? Is that risk management?

Michael Poremba - Re: Weblogging in a corporate environment?   2/28/2002; 2:52:56 PM (reads: 5, responses: 0) Hey, there's discussion of blogging at work in the klogs discussion group on Yahoo. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs/ Klogs are knowledge blogs. Check out the following for more info, if you haven't already. http://www.byte.com/documents/s=620/byt20010524s0001/index.htm http://dijest.editthispage.com/klogs/

 

You are blogged mate. I saw this message on a mailing list and thought about you. Some good links there. I'm already on the klog mailing list, been so since it started. Bit quiet lately, but the early archives are worth reading. I think people got the point quite quickly. And the idea is... bloging is fun, blogging is easy, it's not the techology issues that matter, XML-RPC this, discussion/coments/feeds that. It's the people stupid. KISS. And blogging is kissy. Kissy kissy in fact.

 

Imagine 200 bloggers in a company of a 1,000. "If only," you say. If only it were sooner, says I.

So what's been occurring here. This cyberSaps blog, has been turned inside out and upside down. And it's since I started using Radio. Now, I'm blogging from one place -- my Radio interface. So I blog from here to there, there, and there. So although it don't look updated here it looks updated there.
Personal, family
War blog
Consultant blog
Sex blog
B.I.S.

Chat in my blog? Sounds like fun.

All now working. Phew. I think I'd better get my back ups more in order. Losing five days work wasn't on the cards, I opened my root pdq in BBedit, and saw my code. Simple enough to copy past and compile into scripts, just had to rename and restructure the data, callbacks, and scripts. Lucky there were few, large ones, but few. Two hours lost. An hour with Flip's ODBExtractor 1.1. It appeared later that the root was too totally fucked for ODBExtractor. Last time I used it was free, I'd forgotten that it expires after a month, and is $10 shareware. Though I won't be bothering to send my $10 till I get to need and use it successfully.

Now, if that root had been something bigger, and of my data, like my weblogdata.root, copy pasting all those messages with their categories... You'd need to script it.

Fair play, I've only seen something like that twice in my five years of Frontier use. Last time it was a customer's website, all 1,000 pages + 2,000 images, and all the #tools, #glossaries, #templates, pageHeaders ()... Lucky, I just picked up yesterday's back up; a few hours lost.

I was lucky today. I'll start midnight back ups tonight, well, 5 am. I'm 99% certain I'd be sleeping by then, most nights.

Awwww, man! I just had a corrupted root. All looked lost for a while... All the past five days work!

I had just moved my callbacks from Radio root into a guest database and put an address to them. Then cleaned up the scripts and places them in the same table as the callbacks, then deleted all the rubbish that was created by 'create a new tool' -- loads of stuff like NodeTypes, RpcHandlers, SoapHandlers et al. Thus leaving just my finished scripts and text objects.

I did a save and tried to open one of the scrips, got a strange error, so did a save as to squish the root. Opened that and couldn't open anything inside it -- it 'hasn't been defined.'

Oh dear, thought I.

So I downloaded Flip's: ODBExtractor 1.1 but after half an hour trying that, and getting panicy, I opened the bloated root in a text editor and started copying out the few scripts. Now to resort them into tables and see if I've got everything!

PHEW.

Yeah that's blogger way of doing things, not as smart as news items Manila. This is what I was thinking of putting templates in xManilaBloggerBridge then you could send your own formatted news item, but the title of the page would still be the pesky "Blogger News Item" -- not good.

 

I was thinking of something simpler than an API. Using the Blogger API and then just a callback that said, "oh it's a pesky blogger news item via rpc. I'd better strip out the first link, and format it for Manila news items."

 

But that would have to rely on Joe Punter sending the news item as a very standard format "My title: news body..." Which, happily, the two Radio express tools: customBlogPost, radioExpress sort out for Joe Punter. But Joe can be dumb and mess with the formatting...

 

Yes, that would be brilliant. Didn't someone who was messing with an OS X client have that?

 

 

I think we're stuck with the front page for posting. And the easiest work around is to delete most of the news item template in Manila and reformat via templates in xManilaBloggerBridge, but this pre-supposes that only people with Radio are posting, if someone was to post a news item via Manila then they'd get no formatting...

 

Tricky and awkward -- that's what I think :-)

There you go... One happy camper...Strange that you need Dave's version of the tool as well. I haven't had it installed for a few days now. Shouldn't need it... Anybody else tried it? He's posting to a blogger site...

 

 

The link's good, just that I've been messing with something else... All day, and yesterday, and haven't blogged or updated this tool, till just now... Me thinks I've bust something :-) Looks like I've been upstreaming 1k files containing the word just the true -- better fix that. My tools working fine though, writing out files from a FileMaker database, then automatically, when upstreaming happens, it renders out two files, one big one small, each whacked through some graphics templates, the small is ftp'd the larger sent to the printer spool. Takes about a minute for each letter (printing extra, but now I've got a faster Epsom photo quality full bleed A4 printer, that's about a minute too).

 

Anyway if you just tried downloading it and found the same thing "true" that's my explanation. Get it from the same link again now, it's a full 44k this time.

 

So if anyone else has just been here, and had the same problem, mind it's only been an hour and fifteen minutes, real live events here.

Quick test of something else... my letters callbacks. Testing... Testing...

There's afew more things I'd like to get around to, like templates, and callbacks to as I explain below .

 

I'm a little concerned about deleting posts to vanila Manila sites. Seems to work fine with news item Manila, and I haven't testede it with blogger API friendly clones. But just uses standard blogger API so there shouldn't be a problem.

Yes, vanila Manila, news item Manila or any other blogger API friendly. Though not tested with the 'others' (blogger et al).

 

 

I suppose some testing would be in order, I suppose they only way to get that going is to release it.

 

xManilaBloggerBridge

 

Just pop it into your tools folder a minute later you'll see the link on the status panel of your local home page, fill in the details and you're away. Any problems, I suppose you'd better tell me.

This is a detail, actual size, of the big letter, which is scaled down by 30% to print onto A4.

I suppose the next thing to do is to run this as a web service. You just tell your copy of Radio where your database is, what your letter text is and I send you the weblogs to your server, and a summary page with links to all the big letters and on a PC you 'pint all pages from this page' or something like that.

 

Needs some thinking does that.

This is the next project. Letters.

 

From a file maker database, with one click of the mouse. Many index pages are written to the www folder. Each one is then upstreamed, but on the way it's shoved through some graphics templates to render the text as jpeg'd images. There are two html templates that it's rendered through. The first one does it as in the illustration with the reply form on the bottom. The second, is much much larger, in fact it's about 2200 pixels wide! That's so I can print out the 72dpi jpeg's text at 30% to resize it down to standard A4. Each large one is then sent to my printer. I've also an envelope that's as big which is also sent to my printer at 30%.

 

The end result is photo quality mail merged A4 letters, envelopes and web pages to accompany them. The point being that I can send out letters that look like letters, but also have links printed on them.

 

I'll also be sending up an .htaccess file to my Apache server, so that each letter is realm protected. Each printed letter has the web address of its web version, and the user and password as jpeg's text.

I'm in charge today. "No! I'm in charge!" No, I'm in charge, I'm the Daddy. "No! I'm in charge!"

 

Try arguing with a three year old.

 

I'm left in charge today. Amanda's out for the whole day. Bradley's got nappy rash, so he's nappy-less. I run around mopping up the pee, while I try and clean the kitchen. Hoping that he doesn't poo -- he's got runs too, we suspect. Though, with full pee nappies one can never tell if it came out solid. Guess I'll find out today.

 

What else can I do? Figure it'd be nice to give the house a good scrub, and tidy all those toys. But, I know, that as soon as I do that it'll cause more problems as they find toys they haven't seen for a day or two.

 

So no coding today!

A million things to do today. A billion things to do this week. First. Need to collate some address lists of design companies and contracting agents.

xManilaBloggerBridge Tool: a variation on Dave Winer's ManilaBloggerBridge this allows for and configures mirroring to multiple (x) Manila sites, be they news items or vanila Manila sites.

 

OK, I've got it working. Next is to bed it in a little, and to figure out the updating of this tool, along with the message centre thing.

 

There's more to do, like templates and callbacks. For instance I want to take out double returns in vanilla Manila sites (\r\r) and replace them with \r<p>&nbsp;</p> I find I'm always putting double returns it an item, just for readability. But looking at the .rss, each paragraph becomes an item. So, I want to join up paragraphs, to become a single item, even though it be blog it looks like double returned paragraph spacing.

 

Not only but also. On my Mac, I get the Victoria voice telling me what happened. I think I'd like to build more of these announcements in to the events.

 

Manila and the Australian National Wage Case: "Manila has been used by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in smaller cases and I really pleased that the Manila project is being used for such an important case. The AIR, which does the administration for the commission, is very happy with Manila's functionally and ease of use. "  

Good news!

Phew, a long day away. All the way down to Windsor and back, a round trip of 300 miles. And a dull meeting. I felt sure that they had moved on, but no, my information wasn't correct.  

Oh well, out of my control.  

For anybody who comes here from that meeting, here's a few more sites.
Personal, family
War blog
Ziad's blog
Sex blog  

As a drove home I began to realise that these people want a three page website that says we're lovely. What they need...  

Oh well, never mind, when you're ready, sir.

A resource for web designers and developers who want to learn CSS layout techniques to replace archaic table-based web page layouts... glish.com : CSS layout techniques: "Feel free to steal all the code you find on this site, and consider linking back here on your site or in your source comments."

Most excellent resourse. Thank you.

Who said all Manila sites look the same?

COAL MINING PRINTS: "During Victorian times there was great public interest in mining disasters and the Illustrated London News and the Graphic among other popular magazines of the time dispatched an artist to capture the scene at the stricken mine. The sketch was rushed back to the office and a skilled wood engraver would make the plate to produce the magazine. "
Nice place to visit. I wonder if Duffryn Collery was close to me, sounds familiar. Like a few hundred yards.

So this is how my interface looks these days. I'm adding more links to functionality, as I go, as this is going to be the command and control, for all I survey. Looks better in MSIE but that just crashed, and nice too in Mozila. Opera screws a bit with it, but not bad.

<%params = {"opera"}; xml.rpc ("127.0.0.1", 5335, "radio.picturegallery", @params)%>

This is David Davies's pictureGalley. All I do is add
<%params = {"opera"}; xml.rpc ("127.0.0.1", 5335, "radio.picturegallery", @params)%>
I've modified the presentation of it slightly to fit in with my stylesheet.

OK, so let's see if this upstreams to the ftp server, but not the Radio community server.

The Blog Phenomenon

Ego gratification. Some people need to be the center of attention. It makes them feel good about themselves to tell the world what important things they've been doing and what profound thoughts they've been having. Curiously, while this looks like the most obvious reason for a Web log, I think it's probably the least likely reason, since it's too trite and shallow.

Antidepersonalization. When people begin to think that they are nothing more than a cog in the wheel of society, they look for any way to differentiate themselves. The Web log proves they are different. Just read it. You'll see.

Elimination of frustration. Day-to-day life, especially in the city, is wrought with frustration, and the Web log gives people the ability to complain to the world. You get to read a lot of complaining in these logs. If you think I'm a complainer, oh boy!

Societal need to share. As a cynic who gets paid to write, I have a hard time with this explanation. But it seems some people genuinely like to "share," and this is one way.

Wanna-be writers. A lot of people want to be published writers. Blogs make it happen without the hassle of getting someone else to do it or having to write well—although there is good writing to be found. Some is shockingly good. Most of it is miserable. I expect to see those Open Learning classes around the country offering courses in Blog writing.

wos going on here?

I'm told this new template doesn't look good in iCab on a Mac. In fact it looks so awful, you can't even read or select text because it's hidden in the first grey day and post time div.

But in Mozila, MSIE 5 and Opera, looks good. I've got to find the site I took it from and put credit in the stylesheet.

I'll add some screen shots to a new story, which I'll link to in a bit.

Yay, so I got my template working, nearly right. Still a lot to do, there's so many templates. Now, how do I make it a theme?

TIME.com: Pssst. Wanna See My Blog? - I believe this is the first time in my life I've had something in common with RuPaul. The cross-dressing superstar and I have both started blogging, which is almost as much fun as it sounds. A blog, short for weblog, is a kind of spontaneous online public journal.

BBC: I blog, therefore I am - Ever read a weblog? Perhaps you are one of the growing numbers who keep one. Or maybe you haven't got a clue what they are.

Radio Userland 8 - Blogging is fun, and it can also be competitive: Bloggers, like open-source hackers, are motivated by public recognition. Savvy CIOs who can make KM feel like a game may be the ones to finally surmount the high activation threshold that has forever plagued the KM world.

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<%params = {"Dave"}; xml.rpc ("127.0.0.1", 5335, "radio.helloWorld", @params)%>

a test

here we are in early learning centre. Causing trouble and not buying anything