Glynn Foster wrote
Attached is a summary of what I thought were some of the more important mails - it's entirely subjective,
And original.
Like a good blog post, applying an individual, personal lense is
precisely what makes this kind of thing valuable, in my opinion.
... I thought it might prove to be a good template to work against in the
future.
+1.
Also, (you knew this was coming ;-) ) this kind of thing is begging to
be syndicated via services like del.icio.us and digg.com. And at the
same time given its own RSS feed via a unique tag in del.icio.us. I'm
game. They're really easy to do manually, and for del.icio.us
posting/tagging can ultimately be done programatically too via their
API. (Digg's supposed to have an API soon too).
Also, is this the digest's only format? Or did you do an HTML version too?
If not, because the format is so close to Markdown syntax[1], here's a
pipeline I was able to whip up that converts the article to HTML (the
main benefit being that the embedded footnote references become
clickable links with the URL strings hidden therein).
cat <glynns_article> \
| perl -lpe 's|\[(\d+)\]|[$1][]|g; s|^(\d+)\. |[$1]: |' \
| Markdown.pl | perl -lpe 's|>(\d+)</a>|>[$1]</a>|g'
(It requires Markdown though.)
To see the output of this pipeline, go here:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~boutilier/OWN_001.html
Eric
[1]: The homepage and download for John Gruber's Markdown tool is
here: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
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