A reader gave me what I hope will turn out to be a great idea... he wrote to lament the loss of the Tip of the Day. He also said, as others had, that he wished he had a way to contribute... and he wished there was a way to show his contribution, which is only fair.
I like the idea of separating this blog from a much shorter Tip of the Day, where the TOD is, well, daily, and I also really like the idea of using Twitter as a MicroBlog. That was where inspiration came; let's put the four ideas together (a Tip of the Day, using Twitter for a Microblog, community contributions and recognition).
Thus, Starting April 15, The SLMicroBlog will merge with the Tip of the Day.
Every day I'll publish a very short tip and to do so, I will depend heavily on contributions from Microsoft Employees and members of the Development community and readers of the blog.
Starting immediately, please send your MicroBlog Contributions to jliberty@Microsoft.com as follows:
1. The Subject Line should be Tip of the Day
2. The Text for publication should be no more than 130 characters (including punctuation and spaces. Plain text.
3. Please append your 2-4 character alphanumeric signature (initials or whatever you like). I reserve the right to append numerals to disambiguate duplicates.
4. If you want public credit, please add a line at the bottom to the effect "You may match this signature to my name John Doe" -- if that line is present, I will update this blog entry with the name you send if/when I use your contribution.
Thus, a typical email contribution might look like this:
To jliberty@microsoft.com
From: alex@alexHorovitz.com
Subject: Tip of the Day
Use the VerticalAlignment property to make your controls align within a grid's rows.
AAH
You may match AAH to Alex Horovitz.
What would be published in the Microblog would be
Use the VerticalAlignment property to make your controls align within a grid's rows. AAH
At the bottom of this page would be
Initials To Names
AAH = Alex Horovitz
Hope that is clear, and I look forward to your contributions. Let's give this a couple months and see if it is useful.
Thanks.
Attributions - last update 3/30/08
Initials to Names
Read the complete post at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JesseLiberty-SilverlightGeek/~3/263626128/tip-of-the-day-meets-the-micro-blog.aspx