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October 29, 2004

Syndication tip

Here's a tip for those of you who may be just getting into reading weblogs via a newsreader or some other syndication system like Bloglines.

Do you like full-content feeds rather than just excerpts? Well, if the site you'd like to syndicate is a Movable Type blog, but there's only one RSS link on the page and it's excerpt-only index.rdf file, chances are the author never changed the default feed templates. Most likely this means that their site is dutifully sending out a default Atom feed as well, which just happens to be full-content! Just change the link from http://whatever.com/index.rdf to http://whatever.com/atom.xml, and subscribe to it! You might be in business.

Other benefits of the default MT Atom feed over the default MT RSS feed: links are preserved, and things like photos posted from Flicker are formatted correctly. It'll streamline your feed reading considerably.

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October 25, 2004

NaSoAlMo!

lacunae: announcing NaSoAlMo!

This is a brilliant idea:

I'm declaring that November is also National Solo Album Month: those brave souls who are up for it will write and record an entire solo album in the course of its 30 days.

Q. So, for the purposes of NaSoAlMo, what exactly is a solo album?

A. An album of music you have written, played and recorded entirely by yourself*. The shortest inarguably awesome album I can think of offhand that a lot of people have heard is the first Ramones album, which is 29:09 long, so your solo album must be at least that long. Beyond that, its form and content are up to you.

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October 19, 2004

Oh man

I just heard a Bad Religion song (a song about empires) on FOX's pre-game coverage of the 6th game in the Red Sox-Yankees series. It segued, without break, into the annoying Dodge ad sound byte, which was depressing. The coverage of this series is the first time I know of in which the sponsor's musical riffs are used as the show's intro and outro music.

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October 16, 2004

Theory

Theory: John Stewart sold way more books doing what he did on Crossfire yesterday than he would have if he'd gone on an did a standard new-book shill. Hell, I bought one because of it!

If you haven't seen it yet: torrent, quicktime and WMV, stream

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October 15, 2004

Official TMG site

Most recent web project: The Mountain Goats 'official' webpage. Done with Movable Type, but without comments, individual entry links and other bloggy things like that. It's actually two MT blogs merged into one: one for tour dates and one for news entries. The tour dates entries are simply merged into the main page using PHP. I'm really happy with how it came out, since I had to sort of stretch beyond the comfort-zone of my palette of colors to make it. I'm still working on the archive structure, MT is doing some odd things that I'm still trying to figure out, but the main site is ready for prime time (at least until the entries drop off the front page!)

This new site is meant to complement themountaingoats.net, the "official fan site", by providing up-to-the-minute news and announcements. Hope y'all like it.

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