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Normally I save links like the one above in an email and when I have enough, send it to the usual suspects ( papers & columnists, and a few friends ) in 'netland, after copying the html to a post that needs updating- like the Vote Fraud Archives, or the Dark Underbelly.

Sometimes I will copy the html over to a notepad file on the HD and make a floppy copy if it's something I really want preserved.

Just FYI, FWIW?

"How do you compile all those links and text for various topics?"

I use the lazy method ( although I do occasionaly hand-code links... I'll outline that at the bottom ) of letting Outlook Express do the html. Let's see if I can explain-- been a while since I figured out how to do it...

Open OE & hit create mail... once you have a blank email form open, poke 'view' tab and be sure "source edit" is enabled-- when that is working the bottom of the email will have three tabs visible for edit, source, & preview.
( I *think* you also have to have the HTML enabled in OE by poking the "rich text" tab-- keep that in mind if it doesn't seem to work at first )

Keep the email open- you can close OE if you like.
Simply highlite, copy & paste the headline from FR to the email- it makes an active link. By punching the source tab in the email, the embedded html becomes visible and you can copy that as needed to replies, etc.
This works on FR, Free Dominion, and most other forum boards I belong to that use a bulletin-board forum style like UBB... here's one: http://www.thehighroad.org/

The email can also be sent to others as well. Control-S saves the file to disk, in your draft folder in OE.

Another thing you can do is copy the URL addy from your address box in the browser to the email- it makes a hotlink... I used to do that and then copy the FR title under it, with a pithy quote from the article-- but that is redundant. The titles on FR pages have embedded links, and OE "sees" that, when you don't. If it's something you can click on, it should be possible just to copy & paste to the email and have it work as a hotlink.

You can copy graphics that way too ( doesn't always work, but usually does )-- hilite, copy & paste to the email. The same applies to fonts, italics, etc.

I used to hand-code links-- the A Href stuff, and to make it easier I kept the strings of code for hotlinks, graphics, etc. stored in a notepad file and would copy & paste the addies and titles to the appropriate field- still do it, but it's slow.