{"id":320,"date":"2003-05-08T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/05\/08\/evolutionary-cusps\/"},"modified":"2003-05-08T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2003-05-08T22:19:17","slug":"evolutionary-cusps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/05\/08\/evolutionary-cusps\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Cusps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a9'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Well, the skins work seamlessly now; I like this one well enough, but miss the multiple sidebars that a more flexible system offers&#8230; the Word-style fontification in Manila has occasional snags (e.g., not being preserved across rare operations), the forms used for posting sometimes forget their content if there&#8217;s an error in transmission, I still can&#8217;t use an embedded outliner to draft posts&#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>There are so many beautiful tools for expression out there!&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been&nbsp;exercising <STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/\">Manila <\/A><\/STRONG>(c\/o blhe) and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\"><STRONG>Movable Type<\/STRONG><\/A> (c\/o f|net), and investigate flexible variants like <A href=\"http:\/\/www.raelity.org\/apps\/blosxom\/\"><STRONG>Blosxom<\/STRONG><\/A> for customizing the blogs underlying data structures [ interlocking indices, layered superstructures(<EM>metadata<\/EM>) and substructures (<EM>chunking<\/EM>) ].&nbsp; The latter two allow multiple categorizations, and automatically generate by-category views&#8230; a big plus in my book.&nbsp; <\/P>Then there are other tools for coordinating shared notes. An email-to-web ice like Neotonic&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.clearsilver.net\/archive\/\"><STRONG>Archive<\/STRONG><\/A>, or, more fundamentally, a <STRONG>db-to-web<\/STRONG> ice allowing many coordinators to create different views for users to see, letting a solid db handle <STRONG>auditing<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>permissions<\/STRONG>.<br \/>\n<P>Stay tuned.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Update:<\/STRONG> we have an <A href=\"http:\/\/archive.neotonic.com\/archive\/feedme\">Archive instance<\/A> working, and are planning an NNTP-based mail\/web\/news gateway for separating preferred input channels from preferred browsing channels&#8230;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the skins work seamlessly now; I like this one well enough, but miss the multiple sidebars that a more flexible system offers&#8230; the Word-style fontification in Manila has occasional snags (e.g., not being preserved across rare operations), the forms used for posting sometimes forget their content if there&#8217;s an error in transmission, I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}