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The
clippings in Byeways.net Web Readings have been collected by Thor May
for personal reference. If you find some of them interesting, happy
reading. The current postings here run up to April 2007.
This
material has been uploaded from a desktop. I have not yet found a
really satisfactory way to store and retrieve the large volume of
material on both the desktop and the Internet. My current tools are Internet Research Scout (now available free), with
a web conversion by ABC Amber CHM-Converter. Internet Research Scout
promises great export flexibility, but doesn't really meet the promise.
ABC Amber CHM-Converter does not produce collapsible menus, which are
really needed with large volumes. I have not found an effective way to
export the source URLs using these programs, except as a separate file.
You will have to do a browser search on the "bibliography" index files
such as the 1World Bibliography to track down an article
source.
Online
Internet clipping programs like Google
Notebook in their present state are clunky, slow and inflexible. It
is essential to be able to store folders to multiple depths and have
complete freedom to control their organization (a generic problem with
blogs, which insist on a date based timeline). Many desktop clipping
programs have poor export features, especially when you want to export
the source URLs too. Nothing I have found at the moment will feed
my thousands of html files into a cheap or free content management
system allowing rss, comments etc. This whole scene is a work in
progress...
- One World media readings
About five years of clippings on general world
news & commentary. Of course, this is not everything I've read. The
general criteria for keeping something has been its value for future
reference, or some particular insight on a current situation. A primary
focus on the Asian region is easy to detect. Even that is fragmentary,
as it has to be for any individual's reading. There are only so many
hours in a day ... . Please refer to the 1World
Bibliography to track down an article source; (this workaround is a
limitation of the tools I am using).
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