It was just about six months ago that Rocky and Bruce's "Show 'n Tell Thursday" idea was announced. About a month later, I put up my dedicated Show 'n Tell Thursday aggregator site, and announced it. I was going to arrange alternate hosting for it under its own domain name, but that never happened. In any case, it is still up and running and in that time, 341 Notes and Domino tips have come in on a wide variety of topics and from all over the world. Posts come in either through special feeds people have added to their blogs for their SnTT posts and registered using the submit your feed link in the aggregator app, or via Technorati feeds that pull in any posts that get tagged with "SnTT", "Show 'n Tell Thursday" or "Show-n-Tell Thursday". My code makes a "best effort" to match up posts that come in from the Technorati feeds with sites, so even if you don't have the ability to generate a categorized feed your tagged posts can still appear in the aggregator with your name on them, if you register your site with the aggregator through the above link.

Since the aggregator is a Domino app itself, it was pretty trivial to get it to generate an index that can be displayed here in my blog. So, without further ado, here is an index of all 341 Lotus Notes and Domino tips that have come into the aggregator in the past six months:

1. Ben Langhinrichs08/14/2006 10:04:33 PM
Homepage: http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/GeniiBlog

Sigh! I never can tell what I manage to do wrong so I don't show up in these lists, but I don't. Any suggestions?

2. Richard Schwartz08/14/2006 11:23:10 PM
Homepage: http://www.rhs.com/poweroftheschwartz

As far as I know, you don't have a category feed, so... have you registered your blog on Technorati so that it will spider your pages to look for tags? And/or are you sending pings, either directly to Technorati or to weblogs.com, to tell it that there is new content to spider?

3. Ian Irving08/15/2006 09:01:18 PM
Homepage: http://www.FalsePositives.com

Ben, I looked at your posts and I think I see the problem. for example this post (http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/archive/20060629-0949) has information you what to use as tagging, but it incomplete rather than : <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Show-n-Tell+Thursday/">Show-n-Tell Thursday</a>, you what <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Show-n-Tell+Thursday/" rel-"tag">Show-n-Tell Thursday</a>

the rel="tag" is the microformat that tells any tag aware search engine that "Show-n-Tell Thursday" is the tag lable. The href doesn't matter. Also It doesn't look like your registered on Technorati, but you also need to add <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Show-n-Tell+Thursday/" rel-"tag">Show-n-Tell Thursday</a> though the relevent posts

4. Ben Langhinrichs08/15/2006 10:46:37 PM
Homepage: http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/GeniiBlog

Ian - Thanks. I think I have fixed it properly now.