Anthony Foglia writes:
> Slate modified their "build your own Slate" page so the old site
> file failed to work.  While I've asked them to fix it, in the meantime
> I've created a new version that uses the RSS feed to get the story
> listing.

Excellent! I had an RSS-based site file that I'd been using, but
it came out ugly and I was hoping to find a way to improve it
before checking it in. Yours is much nicer, so I've checked
it in. Thanks!

Meanwhile, I can't remember if I posted about some other sites
I added recently:
  linux/linuxdotcom.site (replaces newsforge)
  linux/ubuntu_weekly_news.site (probably still needs tweaking)
  misc/grammargirl.site
  misc/mr_manners.site
  science/knight_science.site

> I'm going to make a modified version for my personal use that will
> drop the blog stories (the has-been, kausfiles), because those pages are
> much bigger (160 kB and 66 kB currently) and I don't regularly read them.
> If anyone's interested, just say the word, and I'll send it to the list as
> well.

I would definitely like that for myself, and in fact, I would like
to make it the default unless someone else objects. Those columns
generally don't work anyway, because Slate always links to the
same URL for several days at a time, so Sitescooper sees the
URL in the cache and doesn't pick up the new file. And turning
off cacheing is no good -- that would make Slate huge. Eliminating
those columns entirely sounds like the best move.

> PS: If anyone knows how to get Sitescooper to output unescaped XML text
> (i.e. in CDATA tags), I'd appreciate figuring out how.  (Then I could
> keep the descriptions as well.)

Sorry, I don't. Anybody else?  It would make the RSS scoop look better.

...Akkana
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