{"id":5885,"date":"2008-11-29T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2008-11-30T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T19:38:35","slug":"who-wants-to-play-the-scenius-game-rebuilding-the-long-list-as-a-micro-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5885\/who-wants-to-play-the-scenius-game-rebuilding-the-long-list-as-a-micro-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to play the Scenius game? Rebuilding The Long List as a micro-blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right, let’s play a little, shall we?<\/p>\n

One of the things that came out of our little scenius on Thanksgiving<\/a> (which continues through today) was a better way of handling the job I used to do with The Long List of Odysseus Medal nominees. I’ve been ignoring that chore since last Spring, a plausible clue that I just might end up ignoring it forevermore. Even so, it was a good idea, and I learned a lot of cool stuff from the code I wrote to manage The Long List scroller that used to live in our sidebar.<\/p>\n

What I want to do for now is to implement another kind of sidebar scroller, this one more like a micro-blog of useful and informative posts — mostly marketing, but other matters of importance as well. There were people who used The Long List as their feed reader, and this should work even better in that regard.<\/p>\n

You can see it in our sidebar right now. It’s the scroller box headed “SCENIUS: SWITCHED-ON MARKETING” — with links to 50 highly-relevant weblog posts.<\/p>\n

If you want to play along with the development process, you can be a big help.<\/p>\n

How?<\/p>\n

Break this software:<\/p>\n

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I’m serious. I want you to install that code in your sidebar and see if you can break it.<\/p>\n
There are two ways we know of that you might be able to break it.<\/p>\n
First, the PHP may not want to work for you. If that happens, I would love to see a screen shot in your email to me about what happened. So you know: I do not believe this will happen. We broke it every which way yesterday, and I think I have code that should work on any true Apache web server.<\/p>\n
The second way that this code could fail is that it might not look right. It should come into your sidebar as a well-behaved citizen. It should inherit your sidebar’s style sheets, and it should scroll top to bottom but not left to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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