Although at a great address SURF Incubator has proven unacceptable for further development. Grammar Captive has moved a little further south to the Impact Hub where there is more technical expertise better suited for website development.
As soon as the Grammar Captive website has been updated, I will let you know more. The daily time schedule remains the same, even though the dates are no longer appropriate. Hopefully this problem will be fixed very soon.
Roddy
As predicted, adding new channel elements has proven easy. Adding new subelements to the item elements is only slightly more difficult and moving forward at good speed.
One more thing needs to be accomplished before returning to the automation of the Seven Gates newsletter, however: a Grammar Captive podcast landing page — a place to go once the newsletter has been received and interested in the current week’s podcast has been generated.
I am building a funnel, but it is not out of the box. It may succeed right away; it may require further adjustment. Certainly it will not have been copied once complete. In any case, it will be custom Grammar Captive.
Roddy
I was beginning to think that it would never happen, but yesterday evening, just before leaving the office, there it was — my first automatically created podcast feed.
Although there were only seven variables in my test feed, adding the rest should be a piece of cake in comparison.
After three different PHP libraries I finally discovered one that not only services ATOM, RFD, and RSS2 feeds, but one that is rock solid in design, very flexible in application, and actually works.
Best wishes to Anis Uddin Ahmad and Michael Bremmer for making FeedWriter what it is!
Roddy
Selection of the appropriate software for the creation of an automated RSS feed for Grammar Captive’s podcast series and Seven Gates — Grammar Captive’s weekly newsletter — has proven problematic.
Although an important lesson has been learned and much accomplished in regard to the manipulation of Grammar Captive’s database, the first selected piece of software has been abandoned and replaced.
This delay, although most unfortunate, will lead to greater and more reliable flexibility than was previously expected. Grammar Captive continues to move ahead.
Roddy
The English language has become the world’s premier lingua franca. There are a variety of reasons for its dominance; foremost among these are political and economic.
During the course of World Wars I and II the British empire changed hands. Where before the British pound had reigned, today it is the US dollar. This was not the way intended by America’s founding fathers, and the world should be loathe to follow in America’s footsteps. For, as a nation the American people have abandoned the principles set forth by their founding fathers.
Look not to America for world leadership, look to its founding documents and the writings of those who founded America. For therein lies the notion of political and economic liberty and the essence of good government to the extent that any government cans be considered little more than the necessary evil understood by America’s founding fathers.
Happy July 4th!
Roddy
