Tuesday, 5 April 2005

Configurable Moblog Template

BLOJSOM-54 was a fun one.

I was wondering if there was any way of editing the code used by the
moblog plugin to insert images into a blog entry?
the images my camera generates are too big for the containing element
in the blojsom template, and spill out underneath all the links at the
side of my blog. could i produce a velocity template with something
like

You can use the default template or you can override the template to produce the text for an entry that's styled to your liking. As the templates are configurable per blog, well, you know the drill. Each blog could style its moblob entries differently.

Let the moblog madness begin /images/emoticons/mozilla_laughing.gif Or not ...

Posted by david at 9:08 PM in blojsom ... all blojsom

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Posted by at 8:57 PM in Moblog

Flow Journalism

Random thoughts here on a Tuesday afternoon, but I was struck by the following reference to professional journalists (my emphasis).

My endless infomercial bit has gotten a lot of pick-up, the latest being Howard Kurtz's column in the Washington Post. He even included the sarcastic swipe at pro-jos. "Now would be a great opportunity for some of the real reporting the pros are so famous for." Good work.

I thought to myself, I'm a flow journalist. I'm a flow-jo. I like this characterization only in that it doesn't try to differentiate or make assumptions about amateur (or citizen) vs. professional journalists. If there is a distinction there, both camps can refer to themselves as flow-jos.

The web makes this explicit through the links created between pages. Weblogs allow for real-time updating of that flow of information through constructs like comments and trackbacks and pingbacks. Syndication through RSS or Atom or another format allows that information to flow out to individuals or other systems. My aggregator is my digital local paper that I've constructed. Higher level services like Technorati and PubSub help me to manage the information flow to find and discover other sources of information. They're my digital CNNs.

There's obviously no mental breakthroughs here, but if I'm ever asked whether or not I consider myself a journalist, I've got an answer.

Yes. I'm a flow-jo.
Posted by david at 1:56 PM in My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
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