Phillip Pearson - web + electronics notes

tech notes and web hackery from a new zealander who was vaguely useful on the web back in 2002 (see: python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review, the internet topic exchange).

LazyWeb update

Just in from Ben Hammersley: the [[LazyWeb]] is using new code.

David Raynes’s Post-It seems to be an addin for [[Movable Type]] to route TrackBack pings straight to a blog. This makes it very easy for MT users to build sites like LazyWeb.org. (… these are very much like channels on my [[Internet Topic Exchange]] but rather more configurable).

Here’s a test. [[TrackBack]] being browser-friendly and all, I should be able to put an HTML form here and let you post to post-it.rayners.org …

Title
URL
Excerpt

Once you’ve typed in your details and clicked ‘Send TrackBack ping’, you’ll get a bit of XML showing up in your browser. If it says <error>0</error>, it worked fine and you can now visit Rayners’s site and see what you just typed. Enjoy!

(This is exactly how the forms at the bottom of the [[Topic Exchange]] topic pages work, BTW).

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