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May 18, 2006

Calling all geeks…

It would be really cool to have a widget to put on blog sidebars (especially, of course, TypePad blogs) that would let a reader click through to posts on that date from previous years.

Of course, I don’t know if you folks would click that link — but I would.

UPDATE Saturday 20 May: A response from TypePad Support —

. . . There is a Movable Type plugin that can do this but we’re unable to use
these with TypePad. Thanks for the suggestion though. We will keep this
in mind as a possible future feature for the system.

Blogging, Web/Tech, Weblogs

4 responses to “Calling all geeks…”

lisa-marie

May 19, 2006 at 8:45 am

So would I. That would be cool!

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yukino

May 19, 2006 at 10:47 am

I would hope it’s not too hard — there’s already an “on this day” plugin available for MT, written by SixApart’s own Brad Choate. I used it on my daily blog entries (sigh, if only I were still a daily writer). Maybe you can request it? 🙂

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SB

May 19, 2006 at 12:49 pm

Thanks — I sent in the suggestion.
With the plugin, do you have to put it in every entry, or can it sit on the sidebar and automatically know what day it is?

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yukino

May 20, 2006 at 2:22 pm

I have it on my sidebar for my entry pages. If TypePad is dynamically generated (I bet it is) then it’ll probably work automatically on the front page too. If it’s not then it’ll only match the last day your front page was rebuilt.
I think! 🙂

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Calling all geeks…

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