If you're running a blog and would like to display an automated list of your most recent posts on another site, one way to do that is by converting your blog's RSS feed into JavaScript that you install on the second site. Feed to JavaScript is a free service of Maricopa Community Colleges (also hosted by a number of mirror sites) that allows you to turn any RSS feed into JavaScript. Just plug in your feed's URL on their Build a Feed! page, enter some attributes, and generate the script. You can even change the style if you know CSS. Then just plug in the JavaScript on your site. (In TypePad, enter it as "Notes" in a new item in a TypeList that's been configured to display Notes as text.) Hat tip to Fredrik Wacka at Corporate Blogging.
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The creator of the Feed to Javascript is Alan Levine who writes CogDogBlog (https://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/) and it is a great read. He works in the educational tech space - so the postings are not just technical, but how to apply to instruction. He also finds great stuff in his browsing ..
Very cool site--thanks, Beth. Interesting to see how an "educational techie" has a slightly different spin on things than the "nonprofit techies" I know.