Note on This Section

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Note on This Section

I broke off the news feeds from this thread because a flood of news items was eating the indications of news topics that were actually being discussed. Kat and I are thinking about what to do to get around this. Having the Randex news feeds at hand, for example, is a very good thing, but not to the extent of taking over the board's information on recent posts.

Maybe we will try to set up a blog for news feeds and link to it. But for the time being, there are two threads: one for the news feeds and one for discussion.

If you wish to discuss an item in the news feeds, you can do so in the news feed section, but I suggest you copy the link to this section. Your discussion will get buried over there by the constant flood of new items.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I am revamping this New section from when we set it up back in 2006.

Forget Randex. That site no longer exists and, besides, the guy who did it was a jerk based on the private correspondence we had back then. OL was not pure Rand enough for him or something. (Why do I keep thinking of the term "pure bullshit" when dealing with people like that?)  

Anyway, here on OL we already discuss news articles all over the forum, so this is more or less a catch-all section. I will post Randian news here, but use as you will.

The subforum, O-Land RSS Feeds, will be for automatic new posts from select O-Land sites. 

I am also setting up a private RSS Reader with keyword filters for Randian news from normal news sites, but those articles, videos and so on will be hand-posted in the "News" forum. This will be curated content, so to speak.

I am finally beginning to understand RSS a little.

Call me a late bloomer.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

At this moment as I am setting up the RSS feeds, there might be a little disorganization as I try this and that.

For example, for some posts, it looks like I am posting the RSS feed topics myself.

I just fixed that and I have now put Kat's old moniker "News Junkie" there, except I have changed it to "O-Land News Junkie."

Soon this will all straighten out and run as smooth as balmy butter on a baby's butt.

 

(Don't ask what that metaphor is supposed to mean. I don't know myself. But there is alliteration.)

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

It looks like I have to post it under my own name.

sigh...

Michael