John Robb

I just finished some documentation on Radio UserLand for K-Loggers.  I am going to include how to set up a Radio Community, more concepts about K-Logging best practices, and other tips soon.  Let me know what you think.

How to spend your first half-hour. Not so much for kloggers but for anyone. I'm working on a version of my own, something to use when I sit down and walk a blogging virgin through their first experience. 

Important: Deliver and celebrate moments of joy early and often.   

Alison Fish of Blogfish wished for a:

Glossary of UserLand slang, jargon, terms not found in a dictionary. Could be expanded to a general glossary viewable alphabetically or by category (Userland jargon, PDA jargon. etc.)

XML format could include

• term (word being described)
• definition
• category (userland, pda)
• alternate spellings [optional]
• origin (who coined the term) [optional]
• etc.

update: add this term (and its definition, if found) grok usage: "I wrote a technical background piece for people who grok XML"

FYI, Alison...

grok

/grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally 'to drink' and metaphorically 'to be one with'] The emphatic form is 'grok in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash. See also glark. 2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. "Almost all C compilers grok the 'void' type these days."

Source: Jargon File 4.2.0

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