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Todd - Have you considered adding a web based calendar to LUGNET where events could be posted? It would be nice to have a central repository for all LEGO related events. People who find themselves in another city could quickly find out if something (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Calendar of Events
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Cool idea. A larger question: Can LUGNET and the slashdot based thing that just get started coexist? Do they fill different niches? Is there some overlap? Are we going to have to watch both places for newsflashy kinds of things? Just some food for (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes & no -- Yes in the sense that people will be able to post about events and have these events associated with a city's homepage, such that if someone visited a city's page, they could find out about it even if the news article had already (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events)
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(...) A bit more on article snarfing & propagation... If anyone happened to catch this article back in May, (URL) 3rd sub-item of the 4th main item there (the one which begins "Ability to snarf...") refers basically to personal weblogs[1] with (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Calendar of Events
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(...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events)
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(...) Hey Todd, you planning on running for office? (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No way, too many polysyllabic words. (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events)
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(...) quasi-hierarchical (...) Keep talking like that and you'll give me Hippopotomonstrosesq...liophobia. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events)
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(...) Please, enough the the post-antidisestablis...ntarianism talk. I'm already suffering from my trick hypogyrrationalrhomb...ubocuboid, which has ben acting up. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go walk my pet humuhumunukunuku apua'a. Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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uh, supercalifragilistic...ocious.... <sorry, didn't mean to sound precocious> -John (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LEGO Calendar of Events
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(...) They can coexist, but I think the question is instead one of redundancy and efficiency. (...) What does Brick News provide that is of value? + A summary of LEGO(R) related news all in one place * Don't have to read through multiple newsgroups (...) (25 years ago, 4-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Calendar of Events
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I've been away from my computer so sorry for the delayed response. My comments appear below. Todd Lehman wrote in message <37cfbbc6.143494234@...et.com>... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Yes I am thinking of a traditional calendar where "today" (...) (25 years ago, 6-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Kibbles (was: News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events))
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(...) I made a little weblog as a technology demonstration. It starts here and works backwards: (URL) made a top-level entry page too, but I didn't call it "weblog" because the general population doesn't know what a "weblog" is yet. So I called it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Kibbles (was: News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events))
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(...) But not Y2K-compliant. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 7-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Kibbles (was: News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events))
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<snip> Note: I updated the URL's below to reflect URL changes since Todd posted the origional message. (...) Todd, I love the "Tidbits" page. You say that it is easy to create and update but is this an automated process or something that you have to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Kibbles (was: News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events))
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(...) One idea on automation is to allow people to "vote" on an article, and the articles with the highest votes make it to the top of the summary page. One problem with this system is getting people to vote, and to make it easy enough for them that (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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