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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