You can see my RSS channel not longer sucks. Yahoo. I did by switching to displaying news items in Manila.
Doc recently posted this observance about my blog:
Craig has moved from Dates to Subjects as a way of organizing his site, and the RSS feeds and such that flow from it. His discuss page kinda shows what people are reading, too. Interesting.
Doc, I am not moving away from dates to subjects. I am moving away from a daily set of unstructured items to a daily set of structured items. I still have a “daily” link that is maintaned by Manila. All of the items I post in a given day can be referenced by the fixed link.
For example, today’s link would be: http://www.craigburton.com/2001/08/11.
What I have done is add another layer of structure and created a category for each post in a day. The category is referred to as a “department.” I can have as many departments as I want, I am starting out with five basic departments to see if that can cover matters.
A department also has a link. For example the “feature” department is:
http://www.craigburton.com/newsItems/viewDepartment$Feature
What this does is create a much more structered (mabye too structured) organization of the blog. I don’t know if I can go back and categorize what has been already posted yet, I am sure I can and it wouldn’t be too hard as I only have a hundred messages or so. You have 993, that would be more work.
All of the links you and others have made to my blarchive still work.
A side effect of this approach is that I don’t have to flip the home page. For non Manila users, the default display mode of Manila requires the user to atually flip the home page to a new day. This isn’t a big problem unless it’s 11:30 pm and you want to post a story for tomorrow. You either have to wait until after midnight, or go fake out the Manila system into thinking you live in a different time zone.
I can also queue items up and post tham when appropriate. I like both of these features.
By the way, your discussion page provides the same information as mine, it’s just harder to get to your page because you have it buried.