Monday, February 27, 2006
Blogging by Columns? ::
Rachel often has really interesting and useful things to say about blogging and blog design, I really think she may be onto something with the suggestion of tagged columns.
At the SBL Biblioblogging session back in November it was clear that some people only like blogs that are focused and deal with one clear range of topics. But also clear that others like blogs (their own and others) that include the wider variety that makes up real life (now there's a biased way of expressing myself ;) .
Rachel's suggestion would allow us (unfocused bloggers) to accommodate both approaches and people with one blog. I might have a Biblical Studies and Teaching column, and a Hypertext and Digital Life column and then a little one for the Rest of Life as I Know It. Those who like variety could read all columns the focused people could focus on one... ¶ 11:56 AM
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Rachel often has really interesting and useful things to say about blogging and blog design, I really think she may be onto something with the suggestion of tagged columns.
At the SBL Biblioblogging session back in November it was clear that some people only like blogs that are focused and deal with one clear range of topics. But also clear that others like blogs (their own and others) that include the wider variety that makes up real life (now there's a biased way of expressing myself ;) .
Rachel's suggestion would allow us (unfocused bloggers) to accommodate both approaches and people with one blog. I might have a Biblical Studies and Teaching column, and a Hypertext and Digital Life column and then a little one for the Rest of Life as I Know It. Those who like variety could read all columns the focused people could focus on one... ¶ 11:56 AM
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Well, if your blog software supported category archiving then it might be possible to cruft together a template for an RSS or Atom file that got generated for each category. Might have a play around and see how hard that would be in MT.
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Stephen G, at
February 28, 2006 8:00 PM
And it works! Made a second category archive that creates an RSS 2.0 feed for entries in each category.
For example,
http://www.greenflame.org/archives/research.xml
http://www.greenflame.org/archives/science_religion.xml
Technically you could write a script in PHP or Perl to do it dynamically in response to being passed a category name.
