I see that if I run a section of outline outside the calendar area of Fargo and combine it with a script I cobbled together out of pieces from other people's recently published scripts, I can set up a linkblog that runs from my named outline.

• Here is the script:

• Linkblog

  • dialog.ask("Paste the URL of your link below","","here!",function (name) {

  • op.attributes.setOne("type", "link");

  • op.attributes.setOne("url", name);

  • });

And if I direct this section of outline to its own template, I can strip away anything that is not needed for the linkblog--a matter of taste, really.

And if I use as-is or adapt Jeffrey Kishner's new tweet script, I can send anything from the linkblog immediately to Twitter, if I wish.

• [The only reason I might adapt it is that Twitter also counts the characters so I'm not sure the script needs to count them first.]

Thanks to all the script-writing folks who are showing the way--it's been fun to try scripting for the first time.

PS.

Probably old news but I thought it was surprising and even oddly encouraging: Google uses the 2003 RSS instructions from the Harvard Law Berkman Center site to help teach companies to submit product specifications via RSS to its Merchant Center for online sales. Ever confident, Google uses a single "g" to set up its namespaces, even though I believe the spirit of namespace form is to use full words that are clear to human readers without the help of context.

PS. The image shows "RSS" being communicated to us in semaphore.

PPS. In the comments below a seriously well-informed person told me, very politely, that I was mistaken to complain about Google failing to use whole words in namespaces.