127181 Resource 76407 24 1 1147458827014 1201547170622 Controlled Communication Agility

There are certain things that really set MyST Blogsite apart from the blogging tools industry - this one caught my attention today.

In a recent thread on the Blogger development group, someone asked, "How do you reverse the chronological order of a weblog to display the blog entries from oldest to newest posts?" The answer was a bit convoluted and required the following script changes to the Blogger display template.<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><script type="text/javascript"> var archives = new Array(); <BloggerArchives> archives[archives.length] = new Array('<$BlogArchiveURL$>', '<$BlogArchiveName$>'); </BloggerArchives> for (var i=archives.length-1;i>=0;i--) { document.write('<li><a href=\"' + archives[i][0] + '\">' + archives[i][1] + '</a></li>'); } </script> </ul> <noscript> <!- for non-java enabled browsers -!> <MainOrArchivePage> <ul><BloggerArchives></blockquote>I consider myself pretty technical, but I might have a difficult time implementing this change. The very notion of blogging is all about non-technical publishing; this runs in the face of the true spirit of blogging and places unnecessary demands on users (specifically business users) that simply want results.In MyST Blogsite, this is how the same task is accomplished:<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><pre dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><a title="Sort Ascending by Create Time/Date" href="blog/76407?sortOrder=ascending" target="_blank">http://blogsite.com/public/blog/76407?sortOrder=ascending</a></pre></blockquote>To sort by each post's modification time and dated (instead of its creation time and date) and to show the modification time, simply add these URL parameters:<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><pre><a title="Sort Ascending by Modification Time/Date" href="blog/76407?sortOrder=ascending&sortKey=ModifyTime&dateType=both" target="_blank">sortKey=ModifyTime&dateType=both</a></pre></blockquote>or to sort by the post's name:<blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><pre><a title="Sort Ascending by Post Name (i.e., Title)" href="blog/76407?sortOrder=ascending&sortKey=Name" target="_blank">sortKey=Name</a></pre></blockquote>and so on.This is communications agility. 10 application/xml false ascending sort blogger communications agility sort by name sort by title sorting weblogs Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 $Admin false true false false true 174050 false false true false false false true 76407 blog blogsite/Blogsite/web