David Davies' Radio Weblog

Hmm, I bet I can use the same trick in the Google macro to make the Radio weblog links a bit more meaningful. Hover your mouse pointer over the links in the following Google box...

Top 10 hits for Resource Discovery and Collaborative Development on.. 1. 01.1 2. Manufacturing Collaboration Resource Discovery System (McRw 3. International Collaboration on Internet Subject Gateways - 65th ... 4. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Overview 5. Resources for HIV Vaccine Research and Development , NIAID Research ... 6. LTSN-ICS Development Fund 7. Collaboration as a Key to Digital Library Development : High ... 8. A Distributed Architecture for Resource Discovery Using Metadata 9. The Resource Discovery Network Subject Portals Project 10. IMLS: Publications & Resources : Web Wise Conference Papers  24/9/05; 10:33:24.

Just had an idea to decongest my search portal results page. Use Google's snippet data in the link title tag instead of presenting it on the page by default. Hover the cursor over the Google link and hey presto!, you get the link snippet. Tidy!

Interesting observation of the day #1

UserLand's implementation of Google's API in Frontier & Radio is undoubtedly a powerful thing. Witness all the activity since its release only a few days ago. Its highest profile manifestation in Radio and Radio weblogs in particular is in the form of a Google box, often set up to list the top 10 occurrences of the author's name. Now here's the observation. In a Radio weblog the HTML title of the page is always the same, at least by default. In mine it's always 'David Davies' Radio Weblog' so every page in my weblog has this html title. Putting 'David Davies' into my Radio Google box lists a bunch of pages that give me no indication whatsoever what they're about, so they'll be no use to you either. Browsing around some other Radio webloggers shows exactly the same thing. We're abstracting all of our hard wrought musings into a repetition of the same basic title.

I wonder if individual day archives in a Radio weblog can have their own title?

There's a toy for anyone to play with in my instant outline (subscribe via the big OPML coffee mug at left). Right-click on anything in Radio such as a name in your Buddies list or an outline heading in your instant outline and you can choose to search for the selected text using Google. The results pop-up as an RSS file in a new outline in your copy of Radio.

Google to RSS in Radio. A picture speaks a thousand words...