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Morbus has updated his blog entry with information on the linefeed issue, his script, and the fact that Mike at NewsIsFree now has Slashdot posts running into an iCal file.

I just sent this to Apple via their iCal feedback page:

“I think it would be very useful to allow HTML in the DESCRIPTION and SUBJECT fields, so that hyperlinks and formatting can be included. This would enhance the workflow of shared calendars - users can create an event, then point (in the description or subject) to a web-based resource.”

Morbus has updated his entry on iCal, vCalendar, and Moveable Type. If you’re an MT hack, he needs a plug-in that strips links in a post and gathers them as footnotes at the bottom of the post.

A comment to Morbus’s O’Reilly post reveals how to get clickable urls. Put the url between angle brackets (< >).

It has been determined (by me) that iCal borks on mac-style line endings (\r - oh, the irony!) Morbus whipped up a perl cgi that will convert your mac-style line endings to unix ones, so you can subscribe to a mac-encoded calendar.

I forgot to post this on Tuesday when I heard it, but NPR’s Public Interest “Tech Tuesday” had a piece on blogging. (Real Audio) Rebecca Blood was the main guest, along with David Gallagher and Eric Olsen from BlogCritics.org. All in all it was not a lot of new material, but it was interesting to hear the guests, and amusing to hear Kojo saying “blahg”. -)