I’ll be converting the blog portions of this site to Movable Type this coming weekend.  I need a tool that I can use to post entries from multiple computers and locations. I don’t do laptop at the moment so MT fits the bill better than CityDesk or Radio (Radio can do posts via e-mail, however, I don’t want to rely on my desktop box at home staying up 24/7 during extended trips). 

My hope is that I’ll be able to convert all my entries to MT without breaking existing links from other sites. If that isn’t possible I’ll leave the original files in place as an archive and start fresh with MT.

I’ll continue to maintain the rest of the site in CityDesk.

By the way, whoever designed the css templates for MT is a true artist. Beautiful work.

We just had some pretty severe thunderstorms cruise through our neighborhood. At some point our voice line went out but our DSL line still works fine (or you would not see this message). It amazes me that our data line is more reliable than the voice line, which has had, what, a century in which to perfect its technology?  Maybe Verizon voice just sucks.

I’ve been trying out a variety of desktop newsfeed aggregators lately and I think I’ve found a winner: Aggie.  It does require installing .NET service pack but other than that it was easy to install and use. I like how it keeps track of what I have already read and only shows new entries. Very nice.

Here’s a thought: why not create RSS files for the most recently posted jobs in a career center?  Users could then subscribe to the job feed and follow links back to the ones they are interested in. If people started blogging jobs they found interesting it could get quite a bit more exposure for the listing than it would have had before.  It also adds quite a bit of value to the job posting service for those sites that charge to list jobs (such as association-sponsored career centers).

Would an RSS job feed be more useful than e-mail reminders based on keyword hits?  Guess it depends on how a person likes to get their information. A job feed would provide another avenue for keeping up with job listings without a whole lot of extra effort on the part of the publisher.

Speaking of jobs: ASHA is looking for a Web Administrator.

A google search shows that someone thought of job feeds two years ago. Ha!