Posting Entries from News Items
Oftentimes you’ll probably want to cite articles from other web sites in
your weblog entries. Thingamablog includes an integrated news reader that
greatly simplifies this process. The integrated news reader aggregates the
syndication feeds of sites that you subscribe to. For more detailed
information on using the news reader, please see the News Reader section
of the User Guide.

Thingamablog includes a set
of pre-subscribed feeds for every new database that you create. For the
purposes of this tutorial, we’ll be citing articles from the
Yahoo News feed in the folder My Subscriptions/News. Before we can
do that, however, the feed must be updated from the Web.
To update
the feeds, click the Update button on the toolbar
After the feeds have finished updating, browse to the feed My
Subscriptions » News » Yahoo News. The table is now
populated with the articles in the Yahoo News feed. Select an
article that you’d like to cite in your entry and double click it. The
Entry Editor opens with the news article you selected.
Note:
Alternatively you can right click the article and select Post to Weblog...
Enter some additional text into the editor that indicates that you’re
citing this article. Next, click to check the News
category in the category list. Finally, click the Post button
to
post the entry to the weblog.
Repeat this process for a few more
news articles.
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