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Since I am pondering doing the MovableType to WordPress conversion, I’ve done a bit of reflecting on the last two years of blogging. Nothing profound has emerged, but I did start to think about the part of a blog post I spend the most time on (obviously it is not spell checking) — coming up with a good title. A good post title, grabs attention, sets the mode, and I often tried (in vain) to hit the punny spot. It’s worth being original, and just not having a dry, ‘just the facts ma’am’ sort of title. So I thought, why not peruse all of them via a MT template that displays all blog entries listed my title in alpha order? The template was a snap, the meat of it being: <ol class="posted"> <MTEntries sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend"> <li> <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"> <$MTEntryTitle$></a>   (<$MTEntryDate format="%B %e, %Y %I:%M %p$>) </li> </MTEntries> </ol> So here [...]

Imitation and flattery aside, just curious if anyone thinks RSS-to-Javascript bears any resemblance at all to our Feed2JS? I do not really care all that much since Feed2JS code is open source but some credit would be nice, egos can always use some stroking now and then… Ours was pretty much inspired by David Carter-Tod’s Wytheville Community College News Service first appearing as a concept in May 2003, with the first version of RSS2JS (using the now dormant OnyxPHP RSS Parser) to the current Feed2JS (using MagpieRSS).