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This was much harder than it should be, but I now have automatic digests of my new blog entries being delivered to subscribers to my blog@dankohn.com mailing list. (Sign up at the top right on dankohn.com.) You need to be very comfortable with HTML and somewhat familiar with Unix (editing and copying files) or else find someone who is to help you.

Getting this to work requires setting up mailman in digest mode with semi-automatic web-based subscriptions from my blog, changing MT to use full blog descriptions in RSS, using Aaron Schwartz’s great rss2email.py script, setting up a cron job, a lot of testing, and a little luck.
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In the NYT, There’s Nothing So Closed as an Open Competition includes the worst memorial idea ever:

The panel reviewing proposals for a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, for example, vowed to consider every submission. Yet the members acknowledge that some proposals — say, the full-scale, stainless steel model of an airplane mounted so that it would appear to be about to crash right into the Pentagon — were viewed for only the briefest of moments.