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Wednesday, August 22, 2007Looking at NewsRiver problems Some time ago, I imported a large OPML subscription file into NewsRiver (over 300 feeds). I started whittling them down, and now I have 42 subscriptions when I look at the "NewsRiver: Subscriptions" page. I noticed, though, that I seem to be getting stories from weblogs other than the ones I have subscribed to. In the About OPML window, I see that it reaches 192 threads. This does not seem to make sense. After some looking around, I found that aggregatorData.root.services is a table with 194 items, which look like feed URLs. I wonder if this is the list that is being scanned. If it is, why does it not match the subscription list that I see in the browser? Tuesday, July 24, 2007Notes on using NewsRiver I am still checking out the different features in the OPML Editor, but I have noticed some problems in unsubscribing from feeds. A few weeks ago, I imported Jon Udell's Bloglines OPML file. I then tried to delete all the feeds I was not interested in, but a large number of them kept showing up. I don't know if the problem was that a scan had started while I was trying to unsubscribe, or if there was some other problem. Today, I started a scan, waited until it was done, then deleted the rest of the feeds I did not want. I will see if it takes full effect this time. Thursday, July 19, 2007Editing my blogroll I am trying to update my blogroll tonight. My first attempts after reading the basic weblog page were unsuccessful (I do not have a two button mouse on my Mac). After some searching, I found a page on outliners.com which talked about editing a blogroll. I saw a note there that Mac users should use Control-Click instead of right-click. I then entered a headline in my blogroll outline which had the title of a web site, then held the Control key down and clicked on the triangle at the beginning of the headline. Surprise - I saw a contextual menu pop-up, and I was able to select "Add Link"! Woohoo! After that success, I found an entry on right-click menus which said the same thing. However, I think this needs to be fleshed out a little more somewhere in the documentation for Mac users. Sunday, July 08, 2007Testing importing reading lists in NewsRiver I went to Jon Udell's old InfoWorld weblog, and found the link to his Bloglines subscription list. I decided to go ahead and download the list. Next, I did NewsRiver | Import OPML, selected the file I just downloaded, and got a message that there were 393 sources (!) and asking me if I wanted to do a scan now. Went ahead and did the scan, it is still in progress. This is a test of the single item entry. This should have some type of permalink at the end of this sentence. Wednesday, July 04, 2007Trying out WordPress.root I downloaded several of the OPML Editor tools today, including WordPress.root. I set up a test WordPress weblog on my computer and gave it a try. The result - I like it! I made several posts, they all appear in a single outline. I plan to do some more testing of this tool, especially to see what happens when I delete items from the outline. Saturday, June 30, 2007Exploring the Instant Outliner I checked my www folder, and saw that there was an Instant Outliner folder, and it appeared that I had an OPML outline there. Was able to open the outline using the Open URL command at http://hosting.opml.org/sylvester/instantOutliner/andySylvester.opml Was also able to open Instant Outlines for Les Orchard and Dave Winer. I did not make any edits in them, I think I will work on editing mine for now. Adding a post from another weblog I decided to re-posting a post from Les Orchard's weblog after reading it in NewsRiver, here it is.
When I clicked on "POST" on the NewsRiver web page, the text of the post appeared in my daily outline as a headline at the top of the file. I then moved it to below the initial paragraph in this post, and saw the text as a paragraph below that one. I then indented the entry another level using the Tab key, and now the entry is indented like a blockquote, which is what I would like to see when I quote another weblog. Excellent! Friday, June 29, 2007Exploring Instant Outlining I am going to try to create an instant outline. Went to Community | Instant Outliner, created a test outline and saved it. Now I need to find out where it is. Quirk in displaying multiple days on the home page After I saved my entry for today, all I saw on the home page was this entry. I checked my preferences, and it was still set to 7 days. I resubmitted it, then reloaded, and was able to see all of the entries. |
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