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For the last few months I've been working on a news project for the LEGO community. It's not even near done, however it's high time for a preliminary look. (URL) This page will display LEGO-related news from many different sources. The initial alpha (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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(...) (snip) (...) Stall? You? Nahhhhhh.....:-) This is really cool, and will help me out quite a bit in looking for news items! I'm VERY impressed by this! Joe Meno Editor/Publisher, BrickJournal PS. You might want to do a story on this in the next (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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This sounds very exciting! I can see myself using this as a very conveint quick reference and definate start point for all things Lego (after Lugnet of course). God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hey Kelly, This is way cool! I'm sure I'll be checking this constantly. How are you gathering the news? It looks like you automatically read in articles from various blogs and websites, adding in some key word searches on varous news sites. Do you (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) OK, cool!!! So how do we pronounce it? Eye-len? Eye-lean, as in, "I lean towards LEGO? or maybe it's just "illin"? Anyway, very cool!!!!! Mike Harrod (lapsing into a comma) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Exactly, I scoured the net for all LEGO-related RSS feeds I could find. I've also been talking with several LEGO enthusiast webmasters, all of whom have been supportive. The Yahoo link has been interesting, although it's taken a new level of (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Michael! I've been pronouncing it "eye-lenn" which has inspired the palm tree motif and the name of the associated blog, ILENN Paradise. I'm a sucker for a bad pun. Kelly (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Oh, Ok....as in, No man is an ILENN. Except you. The tropical reference threw me at first. Thanks for the explanation. M (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote: Hi Kelly, An excellent resource, and one I expect to use often! I'd sort of known about it for a while, as I'd seen hits coming to my blog from it, but I was waiting to see your official announcement. :) (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Fantastic effort! Will your site *provide* an RSS feed for those of us you are already using an aggregator to manage the many feeds we have? Kerry (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, that's definitely one of the plans... it'll be pretty sweet to be able to go in and define what content you want to see, and then have the RSS feed back out again, customized for what you want to view. So in go the various RSS feeds, and (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hey Kelly, I've got a question. How are images handled? If you look at ILENN right now there are two stories from my blog up right now. The one named "In the archives" has an image while the one named "Rosa Parks" does not, even though the code is (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Just guessing, but I think it's probably because the Rosa Parks one has more text before the pic - ILENN only displays the first NNN chars of each article, I guess if it truncates halfway through an image URL, the image gets dumped. But I (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Good guess, Ross, that's probably what's happening. I could adjust the amount of text if not enough is showing, that's not a problem. Since we're still tweaking, go ahead and make suggestions! I'll see what I can do about expanding that a bit. (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It has a filter to prevent skilled MOCs by Bruce spreading, otherwise we would all be overwheled... : ) : ) God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Aha! I knew it was all a conspiracy! Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not all out to get me. ;) Seriously, even though I happened to notice it on a post of one of my creations, it was more a question out of curiosity. I think (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I have a hard time distinguishing the headline and channel line. My eyes naturally think of the bigger colored channel bars as the headlines rather than the actual headlines. In other words, I am always having to remember that the story is (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yes, agreed. The yellow box was a last-second addition just before release, and the display isn't optimal by any means. I'm also working on a method to distinguish content that's new since your last visit, so that'll all change around. Thanks, (...) (19 years ago, 4-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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