New DU labor widget, new updates at Joes Union Review

[Joesunionreview]

Dammnit, the darn caps look like shit, lol

I finally figured out how to get the DU labor section headlines to display on my site, http://www.anti-union.blogspot.com/">Joe's Union Review. It took a lot of hard work, but I finally got it into a RSS.

Using a tool HTML2RSS from http://www.balluche.fr/html2rss.php
I was able to generate a RSS from the site, the link is here
http://www.balluche.fr/html2rss.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2Fdiscuss%2Fduboard.php%3Faz%3Dcollapse_topics%26forum%3D367&title=DU&extract=on&linkpatterntitle=view_all&descpattern=%2Fdiary%2F

I then took that long RSS and burned it with Feedburner http://feeds.feedburner.com/
The new RSS feed is here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Du

The version which sits on my site which has a border, a custom graphic and a scrollbar, unfortunately cannot be published here as it will convert the image link to the image. It's http://www.anti-union.blogspot.com/">3 boxes down from the Wal-Mart Obey picture

Hope it gets us more readers, I also have a Labor related DailyKOS RSS I generated the same way:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/balluche/eDyi

One for a fellow named Worker Freedom who posts at www.infoshop.org
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WorkerFreedom

I also worked with Steve from http://prometheuslabor.com/">Prometheus Labor Communications to get a special RSS feed working for http://theunionedge.com/">The Union Edge show from PA, this feed has embedded podcasts of the show, burned it to Feedburner
http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnionEdge



Oh yeah, I also completely redid the entire look of the site, adding "Digg", "Reddit" and "StumbleUpon" buttons onto the site. Moving the "donate", e-mail contact, subscribe buttons to the top, changing the colors, tightening up everything, creating new widgets, making stuff smaller and adding borders around the stories, I mean the 200+ Labor News links were taking over the entire right hand side. Changed all the colors and the fonts, you can see how the site looked in a http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:vAex-5EtodoJ:anti-union.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-cannot-have-strong-middle-class.html+%22Joe%27s+Union+Review%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a">google cache. It's still a work in progress, but we'll get there.

So if you want to help, start "Digging", "Stumbling" and "Redditing" the stories on the site, so we get more traffic, and tell the world that the working man/woman is important. You could also donate so I can expand (I would love to add a forum), so far I have gotten $10. Or if you want to be a contributor to Joe's, let me know, I can use the help of a few dedicated writers.

Anyways, let me know what you guys/gals think about the new widget, the RSS and the site

In solidarity,
Joe

[pnorman]

1. I see that you have the Asociation For Union Democracy (AUD) site listed there,

as well as the Herman Benson Blog. EXCELLENT choices!

Here's my favorite quote of Herman Benson (who was the founder of AUD): "Unionism is the only effective means of curbing arbitrary employers and Union Democracy is the only effective means of controlling arbitrary union officials."

pnorman

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. ASS...

not Asociation.



:kick: & R

Thanks, Joe!

[pnorman]

3. There are some CORRUPT unions that share your disdain for that Association.

Are you a "loyal" member of any of them? Perhaps you might want to do a web-search of that old Wobbly epithet --- "Scissorbill".

pnorman

[Earth Bound Misfit]

6. Huh?

err, I was refering to a typo in your OP...you misspelled "Association", you know, Snark for Snark's sake?

[Omaha Steve]

4. Great job

K&R!

[Joanne98]

5. Thanks Joe. I've posted some of your stuff. It's good. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[bananas]

7. k&r #5 nt

[Joesunionreview]

8. Thanks everyone n/t