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changes at the FOS News blog
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Peter Suber
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Jun 28, 2003 10:51 PDT
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Friends,
I'm happy to announce that the FOS News blog is changing its name to Open
Access News. The new name is both more accurate and more self-explanatory
than the old one. The field covered by the blog is now better known as the
"open access movement" than the "FOS movement". This wasn't true when the
blog launched, but it's true now. I'm proud of how widely the term "FOS"
became associated with this movement, but even happier with the spread of
the term "open access" since the launch of the Budapest Open Access
Initiative in February 2002. "Open access" is now the term of art I use in
my own writing, and the term preferred by most researchers, editors,
publishers, librarians, journalists, and activists who discuss these
topics. At first I retained the "FOS" name for my blog and newsletter
because of the hard-won branding identity they had built up. But I've long
felt a competing pressure to use the same term that I was encouraging
everyone else to use.
More details on the name change
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/aboutblog.htm#namechange
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As long as I'm writing, here are some other notes on the state of the blog.
(1) Our RSS feed broke in early May, but was fixed on June 10.
New URL for RSS feed
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/news.php
If you're subscribed under the old URL, a redirect will keep you in the loop.
http://diveintomark.org/xml/fosnews.php
Thanks to Mark Pilgrim for the fix.
(2) Bloglet, the service providing the email delivery of our blog postings,
has been down since April. When I had problems with Bloglet in the past,
an email to the author/maintainer always set it right. But he hasn't
answered my emails.
Does anyone know what's wrong at Bloglet? Does anyone know good
alternatives to Bloglet?
Bloglet
http://www.bloglet.com/
(3) Every now and then, our Atomz search engine ignores some archive files
when conducting searches. I just detected another instance of this and
corrected most of it. Instead of ignoring 15+ archive files, it now
ignores only 2-3. I can't yet bridge the final gap, but am working on
it. If there are any Atomz experts in the house, I could use your help.
If you've run any searches recently and didn't find what you were looking
for, you might want to try again now.
Peter
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Friends,<br><br>
I'm happy to announce that the <b>FOS News</b> blog is changing its name
to <b>Open Access News</b>. The new name is both more accurate and more
self-explanatory than the old one. The field covered by the blog is now
better known as the "open access movement" than the "FOS
movement". This wasn't true when the blog launched, but it's true
now. I'm proud of how widely the term "FOS" became associated
with this movement, but even happier with the spread of the term
"open access" since the launch of the Budapest Open Access
Initiative in February 2002. "Open access" is now the term of
art I use in my own writing, and the term preferred by most researchers,
editors, publishers, librarians, journalists, and activists who discuss
these topics. At first I retained the "FOS" name for my blog
and newsletter because of the hard-won branding identity they had built
up. But I've long felt a competing pressure to use the same term that I
was encouraging everyone else to use. <br><br>
More details on the name change<br>
<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/aboutblog.htm#namechange" eudora="autourl">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/aboutblog.htm#namechange</a><br><br>
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As long as I'm writing, here are some other notes on the state of the
blog.<br><br>
(1) Our RSS feed broke in early May, but was fixed on June 10.<br><br>
New URL for RSS feed<br>
<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/news.php" eudora="autourl">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/news.php</a><br><br>
If you're subscribed under the old URL, a redirect will keep you in the
loop.<br>
<a href="http://diveintomark.org/xml/fosnews.php" eudora="autourl">http://diveintomark.org/xml/fosnews.php</a>
<br><br>
Thanks to Mark Pilgrim for the fix.<br><br>
(2) Bloglet, the service providing the email delivery of our blog postings, has been down since April. When I had problems with Bloglet in the past, an email to the author/maintainer always set it right. But he hasn't answered my emails.<br><br>
Does anyone know what's wrong at Bloglet? Does anyone know good alternatives to Bloglet?<br><br>
Bloglet<br>
<a href="http://www.bloglet.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.bloglet.com/</a><br><br>
(3) Every now and then, our Atomz search engine ignores some archive files when conducting searches. I just detected another instance of this and corrected most of it. Instead of ignoring 15+ archive files, it now ignores only 2-3. I can't yet bridge the final gap, but am working on it. If there are any Atomz experts in the house, I could use your help.<br><br>
If you've run any searches recently and didn't find what you were looking for, you might want to try again now. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Peter<br><br>
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