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		<dateCreated>Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:29:21 GMT</dateCreated>
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		<outline text="Radio 7.0b32">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/stories/storyReader$4277&quot;&gt;Radio UserLand 7.0b32&lt;/a&gt; has been released. It includes two new commands, Save As HTML and Save As Plain Text. The first renders an outline and saves it to disk; the second allows you to create and edit plain text files in Radio -- which means you could edit Python scripts in the outliner, for instance."/>
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		<outline text="Flash gets a scripting language, XML-RPC support">
			<outline text="I got an email from Chris Langreiter this morning and asked that he &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1124&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; it to the XML-RPC discussion group. An interesting and surprising thread. I didn't know that Flash has an integrated scripting language. "/>
			<outline text="And Tom Fuerstner &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$6351&quot;&gt;has&lt;/a&gt; Flash doing XML-RPC. Chris says this brings Flash into the space currently occupied by Java on the client side. Any application &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superopendirectory.com/directory/4/software/applicationServers&quot;&gt;environment&lt;/a&gt; that supports XML-RPC can be the back-end. "/>
			<outline text="Of course Java already &lt;a href=&quot;http://classic.helma.at/hannes/xmlrpc/&quot;&gt;supports&lt;/a&gt; XML-RPC, so I'm not sure if this is a killer for Java or not. But there sure are great authoring tools for Flash."/>
			<outline text="Since there's a scripting language in Flash, is there a way to use Radio to author Flash script content? What do we need to do to make Radio Flash-friendly? (This is a current topic at UserLand, the next release of Radio will work well for authoring Python scripts.) "/>
			<outline text="How new is the scripting language in Flash? Is there a Flash developer community site, and if not should we start one? "/>
			<outline text="Lots more Flash scripting URLs on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mailpages.scripting.com/2000/12/17&quot;&gt;today's mail page&lt;/a&gt;."/>
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		<outline text="Michael Classen's RSS tool">
			<outline text="Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what this &lt;a href=&quot;http://webreference.com/xml/tools/#rssviewerapplet&quot;&gt;tool&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://webreference.com/xml/column26/rssApplet.html&quot;&gt;does&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems to build on RSS in an interesting way, in a browser-based Java applet. If you figure it out let me know. It's cool that he's providing the source. Maybe it's a starter for a project you want to do?"/>
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		<outline text="How to be an editor">
			<outline text="Wes Felter, one of our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superopendirectory.com/directory/4/publications/weblogs/pundits&quot;&gt;Pundits&lt;/a&gt; (a highly subjective list, certain to grow) asks &quot;How do I become an editor? The About page doesn't mention anything.&quot; That's why I think of Wes as a pundit, his questions cut right to the core. I'll put this text on the About &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superopendirectory.com/about&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; later today."/>
			<outline text="It's hard to say how you become an editor. Let me try anyway. The first thing to do is to create a directory. Pick a subject you track, something you know a lot about, or a subject that you have a list of authoritative websites for. You can create the directory on your own Manila site, or on SuperOpenDirectory, or you can create the directory using an XML editor, and save it on your Apache server, or whatever. It just has to be accessible over HTTP and the file name must end with .opml."/>
			<outline text="Now -- how to get it linked into SuperOpenDirectory? That's pretty simple too, but of course you have a few choices. The first step is to have an opinion about where it should be linked in. Visit that page and look at the bottom of the directory display. Pages that have links also have a link that allows you to suggest a link. Click on it, fill in the form and include the URL of your directory. An email will be sent to the editor of the page. It might not be me. Hopefully as the tree builds it &lt;i&gt;won't&lt;/i&gt; be me. I'm taking responsibility for the top level of the directory, but I'm looking for ways to delegate big chunks of the directory to other people."/>
			<outline text="Another possibility is to post a pointer to your directory to the SuperOpenDirectory &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.egroups.com/group/SuperOpenDirectory&quot;&gt;mail list&lt;/a&gt;. That way our competitors will see the link too. There's no reason for your directory to only be linked in in one place. If you come up with the Killer Directory perhaps 20 other directories will want to include it. Maybe your directory will be the top level directory that everyone will want to bookmark?"/>
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		<outline text="Dubya &amp; Dan">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/16/quayle/index.html?CP=RDF&amp;DN=310&quot;&gt;Salon tuned&lt;/a&gt; into something that I had already figured out. "/>
			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/dubyaLooksSour.gif&quot; height=&quot;52&quot; width=&quot;33&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;This time around the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/mag/opener.html&quot;&gt;Man of the Year&lt;/a&gt; is Dan Quayle and the Secretary of State is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/bigDaddyColinPowellAndDubya.jpg&quot;&gt;Daddy&lt;/a&gt;. (Or in Bush family terminology, Poppy.)"/>
			<outline text="Shawn Fanning was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/pwm/fanning.html&quot;&gt;Person Who Mattered&lt;/a&gt;, as was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/pwm/judge.html&quot;&gt;Thomas Penfield Jackson&lt;/a&gt;."/>
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