Outreach Mission
“Outreach” is not just
A mission to make the internet help us understand ourselves better. A mission to publish knowledge as well as information. A mission to
As the name suggests,
Outreach the plug-in (currently for
As both the mission and plug-in are brand new, only my blog has either. Please browse some of my older entries to see the outreach tagging in action. If you want to see the actual outreach tags, view the page source and search for “<is:”. I am
This page will evolve into a complete guide to Outreach. I have more ideas than I can possibly write down yet.
Outreach Help
I want my publication to be read and understood by as many people as possible. I want to help people find background and detailed information on any unfamiliar subject I am discussing. To do this, I provide links for some of the things, products, people, places, concepts and words that I use, something I call “outreach”.
For example, if I am discussing
If you the reader, like I the author, have no clue what any of those things mean, you may click the links for further information on the subject from the sources of information I normally use, such as
If, on the other hand, you find the links annoying you may switch them off using the outreach control which appears on every page with outreach. Use the control panel to set the level of outreach you wish to see from the options available. Click “none” to remove all the outreach links and be left with the bare text.
Daniel Schierbeck says:
The
February 24, 2006, 4:41 pm@citeattribute is different from the one in XHTML – have you considered using an URI instead?Libertus says:
Daniel! Welcome! You are my first, ever commenter on the Outreach Mission. I shall remember you forever! And you express yourself with style. How delightful.
I gave a lot of thought to
cite, knowing there was an existing use in XHTML. In fact, I studied the existing use quite extensively before deciding to adopt it. As with XHTML, myciteattribute expresses a citation of some kind, specific to the tag being used.With all my tags, the
February 24, 2006, 6:30 pmciteattribute should be omitted if the tagged text is also the citation. Citations are not URIs, except for<is:uri>. If a URI reference is needed when using the other tags, it is specified by thefromattribute.Libertus says:
I’ve been thinking for a while about how to extend the reach my Outreach search links to the websites they eventually link. At the moment, the HTTP referer is Google search, not here. Mental note: Add something like -site:www.libertini.net/libertus as a search term. That will hopefully appear in their incoming weblogs and have a beneficial effect on the search – it won’t link back!
Update
June 2, 2006, 8:59 pmI’ve settled on “-site:$post_permalink_without_scheme”, which Google will hopefully NOOP internally but pass on in its referral query string, to be picked up by the link endpoint. Access log analysis programs may list the term but are unlikely to understand its meaning. It’s subtle but it is also important. The link endpoint should know that the incoming search phrase was not typed into Google ad hoc.