Marilyn Manson as Willy Wonka

"I'd heard rumors about a new Tim Burton-directed version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a couple years ago, but this is the first confirmation that it's in the works. Apparently, Dahl was never too keen on what Hollywood did to his work (Willy Wonka and The Witches), and his widow has been hesitant to give consent to new projects. She was, however, won over by Tim Burton, who she said, looked like Edward Scissorhands. The article also confirms a longstanding rumor that Marilyn Manson is very interested in playing the candy maker, Willy Wonka. Hoo boy!" [LISNews.com]

Carol Blogs:

'One of the reasons it took me so long to get on the RSS bandwagon was because I didn't like what the RSS format was doing to my content, removing it from its visual and thematic context. But, you don't go RSS for the content, you go RSS to see if you want to click on to the content. Of course!'

"I disagree. One of the benefits of RSS should be to provide content, not just be able to click on snippets of content. There has been a lot written about whether or not bloggers should provide the full text of their content for RSS purposes. My opinion has always been, Yes!! Why not? What are the reasons not to provide full text content? More hits to your weblog? Hits to a weblog should only matter if you are being sponsored by a company or if there are ads on your site, which in most cases, is not happening. My aggregator should be filled with the full-text of every post from every weblog that I subscribe to. Hey, one can dream, right?

Carol's weblog is powered by Movabletype and the default feeds are awful (no links, no sentence breaks, and only the forst 100 words or so) and she didn't like how the feeds looked from her weblog posts. Just in case you missed it, you can provide full text RSS to readers by doing a bit of tweaking to the RSS template.

Carol also has an interesting post on what she would do with the powers of RSS:

'My lingering response is that I'd love to syndicate the library's new books (or recent acquisitions) list. This information is already automatically generated by our ILS, but not in a very useful or extensible format. To push this information out to users, to syndicate it as appropriate into the library's many subject-specific research guides - that would be pretty damn cool.'

It sure would be cool." [Library Stuff]

My opinion - they're both right! Personally, I like full text in my aggregator because it makes me more efficient and streamlines my reading habits through one funnel. But I know others like to pick and choose which short summaries they want to follow up on for the full content. Humans are funny that way, so why not give your readers the option and let them choose! Especially easy (scroll down to March 13, Side Note) if you're running Movable Type, but there's also a workaround for Radio blogs if your server runs PHP.

360 degree panorama from the top of Mt Everest [via Popdex]

Ack! Paul H. notes that the link to Why You Should Fall to Your Knees and Worship a Librarian is dead, and alas he is correct! In fact, the whole Librarian Avengers site is gone! Come back, Avenger, come back!

Until then, check out a mirror at Indiana University's SLIS.

Jerice is looking for blogs about art - anyone have some pointers? A Google search for art blog produces a some relevant hits, but metadata, where for art thou?