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Re: Re: Daily Blog Posting

by Joe Mezzanini :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Britta Gustafson <brittag@...>
wrote:

>   I guessed that's what you meant, but I didn't know if you wanted the
> long explanation. :) It's "experimental" because we put it out there and
> haven't changed it for a long time. In an ideal world it'd get a major
> overhaul, and we have a lot of ideas for that, but this feature is lower
> on the priority list than several other things and so we're not
> currently working on it.
>









*I understand. It really adds a lot of functionality for bloggers. I love it
*



>
>
> Delicious itself has a lot of lowercase everywhere on the site, and this
> choice has to do with style as well as grammar.
>






*Yes but in this case the blog poster results shows on other people's site
not the delicio.us site .. .... therefore maybe it needs to match the style
of other people's site not **delicio.us 's web site  :-)*


We're moving toward more
> "proper" capitalization eventually, though.
>
> Thanks for your patience!
>






*Thank you for a great invention. It is one of the most useful web based
apps that I use.

We even use it at a college where I work for posting links related to
certain courses and we just use the course ID #'s as tags - - great stuff
but I am straying off topic !!!*

*THANKS*


>
>
> Britta
> Delicious community manager intern
>
> --- In ydn-delicious@... <ydn-delicious%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Joe Mezzanini" <joe.mezzanini@...> wrote:
> >
> > With all due respect and don't take this the wrong way but I know that is
> > how it is generated. My request is to change the way it is generated and
> use
> > proper grammar for a title.
> >
> > Being that it is an experimental feature I would think that the
> developers
> > would be looking for exactly this kind of feedback and suggestions.
> >
> > Do you know who is working on the that particular project and who I can
> send
> > feedback to about it?
> >
> > I do appreciate the automated script and thank you for listening,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Britta Gustafson <brittag@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > No, that's how it gets generated. The daily blog post fixer plugin
> might
> > >
> > > be able to help, if it works.
> > >
> > >
> > > Britta
> > > Delicious community manager intern
> > >
> > > --- In ydn-delicious@... <ydn-delicious%40yahoogroups.com><ydn-delicious%
> 40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > "Joe Mezzanini" <joe.mezzanini@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The title that Delicious generates it all lower case "links for
> > > > 2008-07-14"
> > > >
> > > > Any way to make it a properly formatted title? As a title it should
> be?
> > > > i.e. "Links for 2008-07-14"
> > > >
> > > > May not seem like a big deal, but when it is on a list of recently
> posted
> > > > titles that are properly formatted it really stands out as improper
> > > > punctuation .
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Britta Gustafson <brittag@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > We don't have a built-in way to customize the subject. There's an
> > > > > unofficial plugin for Wordpress that can do this --
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2006/04/07/delicious-daily-blog-post-fixer-
> > > plugin
> > > > > -- but I'm not sure it works with the latest version. The
> > > > > title that Delicious generates is in lower case; the upper case is
> > > > > probably because of your blog's CSS.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, not directly related to your question but maybe interesting
> to
> > > > > other people who use the daily blog posting feature: there's an
> > > > > unofficial Delicious Blog Rescue Tool at
> > > > > http://deliciousblogrescue.mozdev.org/ which can help generate a
> > > > > replacement post if "a day's worth of your del.icio.us links never
> > > made
> > > > > it to your blog".
> > > > >
> > > > > Britta
> > > > > Delicious community manager intern
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In ydn-delicious@...<ydn-delicious%40yahoogroups.com><ydn-
> delicious%40yahoogroups.com><ydn-delicious%
> > > 40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > > > "Joe Mezzanini" <joe.mezzanini@> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just tried the daily blog posting function with Wordpress...
> pretty
> > > cool.
> > > > > > Any way to customize the Subject of the posting?
> > > > > > Also - the subject shows in all lower case under "recently
> written"
> > > and
> > > > > all
> > > > > > upper case in the actual post title.
> > > > > > See my test blog here http://theMezz.com/blog
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > GOD BLESS AMERICA
> > > > http://theMezz.com
> > > >
> > > > "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and
> > > realize
> > > > they were the big things." — Anonymous
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > GOD BLESS AMERICA
> > http://theMezz.com
> >
> > "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and
> realize
> > they were the big things." — Anonymous
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>  
>



--
GOD BLESS AMERICA
http://theMezz.com

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things." — Anonymous


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