Saturday, October 25, 2014; 6:20:47 PM Eastern
Welcome to the new Scripting News
- It took a long time to get here!
- There are six tabs, and three menus, in the new interface.
- #### The six tabs
- 1. Blog -- essays from "Scripting News" that I write in "Fargo".
- 2. Photos -- from my Flickr feed.
- 3. Links -- from "Radio3".
- 4. Cards -- from "Little Card Editor".
- 5. River -- from "River4".
- 6. About -- which I wrote in the OPML Editor, for old times sake. ;-)
- #### Why so many tabs?
- I create lots of different kinds of content. I write, I take pictures, and make cards, and curate news. I select feeds to form a river.
- All of it should come together in a place that represents me, online, as a person.
- Scattering it all over the place is cool! As long as there's one place where it all comes together. That is this place, my blog, "scripting news".
- #### The menus
- They seem kind of self-explanatory. I expect to add more to the menus.
- #### It's a feed reader
- If you like software, and this is a blog about software, among other things, what's interesting is that there isn't actually any content in the home page. Three of the tabs are built from RSS feeds: Blog, Photos and Cards. The Links tab comes from a JSON file that Radio3 outputs, and the River tab uses the River.js file that River4 outputs, again in JSON. The About tab is in OPML, of course.
- It's more of an application than a web page, but I guess that's the way we do things these days.
- #### Should work well on phones, tablets
- This part is getting pretty routine. Give it a try, let me know how it goes.