Comments on: Random updates

By: Joe G.

Joe G. — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:49:44 +0000

Though not that geeky — your note to Zach was mostly incomprehensible to me and I find del.icio.us mostly confusing to understand — I do look forward to a new and improved Quakerbooks.org. Not that is’t horrible, but it could use some updating around functionality and style.

By: Martin Kelley

Martin Kelley — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:13:30 +0000

Hi Zach: Let me know when you’re free to do the work. I’m occassionally asked to do something and when I have to turn it down for one reason or another I’m immediately asked if I know anyone. I’d be happy to give you a plug.
Since I mention Web 2.0 in the post I suppose it’s fine to get a little geeky in the comments:
For most of my Del.icio.us bookmarks I have categories and subcategories split by periods, i.e.:
religion.buddhist
religion.catholic
religion.christian
I do this so I can make use of Firefox’s Foxylicious extension and keep them all orderly: Foxylicious will pull them into Firefox’s Bookmarks folder with cascading menus built around the categories.
As anyone can see by digging into my bookmarks, I run my three Blog Watches (Nonviolence, Quaker, and Christian Peacemaker) off of Del.icio.us. For example, the “Quaker” tag sends something to the Quaker Blog Watch. I’ve recently added subcategories to this. Their tags look like this:
*.20something
*.alienation
*.bestof
(etc)
I give them all an asterisk prefix so that they’ll show up alphabetically at the top of my list.
Since Del.icio.us provides RSS feeds for each tag, I can leverage all this into self-updating pages and automatic daily emails.
It would be a fairly simple job to splice together these feeds so that I could share the Blogwatch compiling with others, which I think will be the inevitable next-step.
First though, I’m staying up late tonight (really late, maybe all night) cranking out a paid freelance gig. Back to work now!

By: Zach Alexander

Zach Alexander — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:50:28 +0000

I’m really excited about then new Quakerfinder! (: Once I finish school (perhaps sooner depending on how my schedule feels this spring) I’d like to start doing Quaker-related web design…
Also, do you have any links on how to well-organize one’s delicious tags? You seem to have a sophisticated system set up.

By: Martin Kelley

Martin Kelley — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:49:58 +0000

And how did I not see AJ Schwanz’s post on “The Emerging Librarian”:http://ajschwanz.com/index.php/2005/12/20/the-emerging-librarian/ the other day. That’ll be my brilliant Web 2.0 link for you!

By: Martin Kelley

Martin Kelley — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:47:02 +0000

Hi Mitch: sorry for the confusion (I’ll tweak the post). It just came in last night and the bookstore’s ready to sell.

By: Mitchell Santine Gould

Mitchell Santine Gould — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:37:27 +0000

"On Living with a Concern for Gospel Ministry... while waiting for the book..." Please clarify. Do you mean "waiting for your order to arrive in the mail," or do you mean, "waiting for the book to become available for sale" ?