Hypercompendia

Hypercompendia may be in disarray for a day sometime soon as I can possibly make my life easier by reorganizing it automatically in chronological order from oldest to newest rather than the traditional blogging reverse. 

In that temporary state, I can copy the entries more easily into document format such as Word or Page via Category in large blocks rather than post by post as I once did for a New Media course.

But I’ll warn you when I do this, hopefully do it in off-peak time, and with the luck of the gods, get it back in shape with no problems.

First I have to figure out the code that shows the date posted under the individual post (and not just the time). It’s correctly done in Spinning, but here, though the settings are the same, only the time is displayed with the date in the header only.  It seems in Spinning (and I learn a lot by observing what I want and transferring the code) there is a separate template for "individual entry" rather than all in the stylesheet so maybe that’s what I’ll need to add here.

Sigh.  Another project.

Via Dennis Jerz,  at Wired: Top 10 Tips for Blogging from Jorn Borger, and this one in particular:

2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.

Man, I knew I was doing something wrong but I didn’t realize it was a personality flaw at its base.

Obviously yes, one of the main purposes of weblogging is to create an interconnection of links that relate and bring in new ideas and discovery.

But how, if no one is providing new material?  What’s so great about access to all information without an increase in information that blossoms from it?  I do enjoy the weblogs that keep us up to date by providing sort of a clearing house for linkage, doing the circuit and culling down to the best and posting these.  Sure saves me a lot of time.  On the other hand, one thing I’ve noticed lately is that even using Google, the search brings up a good amount of places that are merely more clearinghouses for the term.  Links to links to links. Sounds good, but it’s merely frustrating when you’re looking for an answer instead of just more places to look for it.

Maybe I just see weblogs as more diverse in their potential and think that the freedom and voice it has given to millions shouldn’t come with somebody else’s rules applied.  For me, weblogs provide long or short bursts of reading in a variety of topics and moods.  Sort of the Reader’s Digest for the world outside the bathroom.

Very interesting post, Bloggers Ignoring Link Semantics, at Google Blogoscoped .Com on the use and ignoring of links on weblogs:

You can see it all the time on commercial or amateurish pages: the “click here"-syndrome of funny link text. We all should know better and give links a meaningful text, one that would also be a valid title for the document you are taking your unassuming reader to. And yet some who should know about link semantics (bloggers, that is) still use words like “Permalink” or “Permanent Link to this entry” to point to a static page which is not about to move its location.

And a response post to it here.

I’ve been woefully remiss in keeping up on the Alice project, as well as the Recycling project, as well as The Paths, and anything else my brain gets all fired up about as my ancient body trails behind in Warp 3 speed.

The reason is not from waning interest, nor the same virus that’s laid low my writing, but rather the drain on my creativity and time that comes out of greed. 

No, not really.  At least I hope that’s not it.  It’s a matter of principle and justice (and the Don Quixote in me that charges full speed rather than mere tilting at windmills) that both incites and bleeds me dry but leads me to continue my fight against my dear sister in estate matters for the last three years.

Oh that that dark cloud blows south very soon and leaves clear minded blue skies to fill with ideas and production instead.

Well I may be manic but I guess I’m also pretty smart.  Found a copy of the Stylesheet, sidebar, and the main index templates that I must have copied and put into Word for safekeeping.  Since the design templates saved in Typepad don’t change automatically (damn good thing, too) with the changes made to a particular weblog’s design, the tweaks are only in one place and I must have copied them when I first set up the weblog.

Smart and…well, I prefer to call it whimsical.

Almost lost me again this morning.  I’m trying to add in the Typelist of links to Software which was here before and while I found the module, can’t seem to code it into the sidebar template quite properly.

So today may be a day of what looks like another hissy-fit but in reality is just a technical problem that I’ll be working on.