01-22-2016, 06:43 AM | #1 | |
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Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
I'll be aggregating GURPS content each week for a weekly roundup to be posted on Thursday.
The short version:
Please try and follow the format guidelines in the linked post, including labels (Campaigns, Characters, Mechanics and Rules, Play Reports, Reviews). Include NSFW in your summary if you're being naughty. The Long Version if you blog about GURPS, even if (sigh) it's not on Thursday, drop me an email by 6pm CST each Wednesday. at GURPSDay@gmail.com and include the following information in the body of the email. Category While I might change these up later, include the kind of post that you're making, as a heading.
Post Title Please include the title of the post on your blog, with an included link. So like this: Melee Academy: Disarms in four systems Link to Main Blog Page in Parenthesis Follow the main link with a link to the landing page of your blog, in parenthesis. Type the name of the blog, and include an embedded hyperlink. (Gaming Ballistic) One to Three short sentences summarizing the post Pretty much what it says. As briefly as you can, tell the reader what your post is about. Be terse. I mean, really, really terse. If your post will get people walked down to Human Resources, sued for divorce, or permanently damage the psyche of children or adults, please label it NSFW. "Adult" or "mature" gaming content can be perfectly awesome, but respect that not everyone wants to see it on their office computer! NSFW posts will not be aggregated in any linked SJG material - they'll be separated out in a different post on my blog. It's best to avoid them. Example Email The overall look of the body of the email would look like this: Quote:
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01-23-2016, 08:07 PM | #2 |
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Re: Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
GURPSDay might be about to get easier.
I'm still working through details, but a friend of mine just helped hugely by writing a PERL script to pull content, appropriately formatted in a useful way. We can even include a brief synopsis of a post, but it'll have to be formatted the right way. This means that instead of mailing me each post, as the guidelines currently state, you will be able to just request me to add your blog to the list of scraped sites, presuming you: 1. Enable your RSS feed 2. Tag your posts with GURPS (for the moment) or maybe GURPSDay using Blogger's Labels or WordPress' equivalent. For non-Blogger, non-WordPress . . . I don't know yet. 3. If you want a brief (think twitter-length) summary, we can pull it, but you'll have to format it a certain way (this will not be hard). Once I get this down (I'm a complete novice at PERL and such), this will be pretty easy for everyone.
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01-23-2016, 11:13 PM | #3 |
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Re: Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
What format do the items in the RSS feed need to be? Currently I have <category> elements for each tag, including GURPS; I have no idea what the synopsis element should be like.
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01-24-2016, 03:54 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
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Precis - This post talks about posting about posts. Here's a second sentence. And a third. The key bits will be the word "Precis -" in bold in the front, and a double carriage return at the end. Beyond that, i can't say yet. Please have patience. We're trying to make it as easy as possible.
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01-24-2016, 06:19 AM | #5 |
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Re: Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
It looks as if Gaming Ballistic (presumably automatically through Blogspot) is using <category term="foo"/> rather than the more standard <category>foo</category>.
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01-24-2016, 08:54 AM | #6 |
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Re: Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
Well, I certainly haven't changed anything! whatever Jeffro was doing with the PERL script, it didn't have trouble picking out my and others' posts, but I'll add it to the list of stuff to consider.
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01-24-2016, 08:59 PM | #7 |
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Re: Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
If you want your blog to appear on the Thursday published summaries, please do as much of the following as you can:
1. Send me an email at gurpsday@gmail.com and I can get you on the contact list so that if I make changes or find out stuff, I can communicate with you. 2. Give me a link to your blog 3. Even better, give me a link to your RSS feed 4. Even better, give me a link to your RSS feed that only outputs things with the GURPS tag! Having seen the evidence that it can be done only with 2 (because we can usually get 3), and also from RogerBW that 4 exists, or can be made to, we are close to being able to aggregate, automatically, all the GURPS. ALL of it. Palpatine will be envious.
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01-24-2016, 09:21 PM | #8 |
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Re: Thursday is GURPS Day: Links and format!
"Initiate Order 3d6."
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01-24-2016, 09:25 PM | #9 |
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