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The Saint's Blog devoted to news and rumors about The Saint and Leslie Charteris. Simon Templar, alias The Saint, was played by Roger Moore in the 1960's TV show featuring the Volvo 1800.
Please e-mail any current news and rumors about The Saint to: 
The Saint's website has been running since the Web 1.0 days of 1995, and in those days each web page's HTML had to be hand-coded in a text editor, such as BBEdit and then FTP'd up to the saint.org web host by me and me alone. Web 1.0 for The Saint was a one-way posting of static information that you hoped someone would find and read (this was called "Pull", as it was hoped that the sites content was so good that the sheer gravity would pull users to it.
 With Web 2.0, The Saint's website is much more collaborative and automated. The use of Blogger means that an entire dream team of Saint experts from around the world can add, edit, or delete news articles in a rich web-enabled editor using only a web browser. These articles can have pictures, links, video, and other files. Additionally, all of the Saint fans who read these articles can use the comment feature to add their thoughts and feedback -- giving us collaboration, discussion, and ideas about the next article.
Each News article written in Blogger has an RSS syndication feed powered by Blogger and enhanced by FeedBurner to promote, gauge, and facilitate adding to your home page, like My Yahoo! or iGoogle. This allows people to see the news headlines on their favorite site, instead of having to visit Saint.org every day to check to see if there is any news. The Feedburner RSS feed "pushes" content to the user, which then brings them to the site. Feedburner also features a News Headlines module which appears on the home page of www.saint.org and automatically lists the links to the most recently posted news articles. In addition, FeedBlitz "Subscribe Via E-Mail" was added to allow users to have the Feedburner RSS feeds sent automatically to their e-mail address whenever anything has been posted.
Web 2.0 also gives us the tools to allow anyone to help publicize a particular news Story about the Saint. If something catches your eye, for example, you can use Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati, or StumbleUpon to share your links with other people. This is a great help, as it allows more people than just a single webmaster to update a list of links that are related to the same subject. For example, all of the Saint Actor pages (like Tom Conway) feature external links about that actor which are powered by Del.icio.us. By adding me to your Del.icio.us network, you can help in maintaining and adding links to important Saint sites around the web.
Statistics are another important way of seeing what information has the most interest, and if additional pages, articles, or other items are needed. SiteMeter gives quick statistics for each page, and FeedBurner gives statistics on each RSS feed usage.
And in the end, the other big change in Web 2.0 is all of the advertising capabilities for giving Saint fans relevant products for sale that are at least somehow related to The Saint. These tools, like Google's AdSense, Commission Junction, and Amazon Associates allow this site to remain up and running at no charge to the public. The advertising revenue, while slight (about $1 a day), does pay for the domain registrations and other hosting charges incurred. Please continue to support www.saint.org by visiting the advertisers and using all these Web 2.0 features to be part of The Saint's online community!Labels: 2007, Amazon.com, Digg, eBay, Google, RSS, Web 2.0
 Roger Moore was recently in Monaco for a photoshoot and interview to promote The Saint and The Persuaders for German TV.
Roger Moore @ Polish Fan Site reports:Photoshoot and trailer for German TV. Sir Roger Moore has taken part in a photoshoot and trailer for German television channel Das Vierte to promote "The Persuaders" and "The Saint" being shown on the network from 1st September 2007. The shoot took place in Monaco, where Sir Roger also gave a comprehensive interview which will be shown on the channel on 2nd September 2007. A German translation of the transcript is on the network's website. Source: MI6 To read the interview (in German) and see the 14 photos, please visit the web.de site. You can also read a very badly worded English translation of the Roger Moore interview using Google's automatic translation service.Labels: 2007, German, Google, Roger Moore, The Persuaders
 Google Maps has just released a My Maps feature that will allow anyone to create a custom map and publish it for the World to share. So, here's the project for someone out there: create a custom map of one of the following: - All the locations that the Saint has visited in the Saint books by Leslie Charteris.
- All the locations used in filming any of the TV shows, along with screenshots of that location from the episode.
- All the locations used in any of the Saint movies, again with screenshots of the scene involved.
- A list of all the bars in the world named after The Saint.
- A list of great bookstores that specialize in mysteries and always have a good stock of Leslie Charteris on-hand.
- The birthplaces of famous people associated with The Saint, such as George Sanders, Roger Moore, Leslie Charteris, etc...
Your assignment is clear. Create a map and tell us about in the comments below! As they are posted, I will create links to them!Labels: 2007, Google, Leslie Charteris
 In the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 the search architecture has been redesigned and replaced by the Toolbar Search box, which is located to the right of the Address bar. Sites can now advertise search providers, making it much easier for users to perform searches on sites directly from the Microsoft Internet Explorer frame without first having to navigate to that site.
This change in Internet Explorer means that you can add Saint.org's new search engine (powered by Google) as a search provider by following a few easy steps.
1) The first step is to click on the magnifying glass at the upper-left hand corner, and choose the "Find More Providers..." option.
 2) Fill in the gold "Create Your Own" box with a Search URL of (make sure to remove any spaces first):
http://www.saint.org/search/?domains=www.saint.org%3Bwww.lesliecharteris.com &q=TEST&sitesearch=www.saint.org&client=pub-8591498453215281&forid=1 &channel=3396009147&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&flav=0000&sig=SDCg4pOB4j-YBZZt &cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399 %3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC %3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en
3. Type in a Search Provider Name of "Saint.org" in the second box.
4. Click on the "Install" button and try your new search by selecting "Saint.org" from the magnifying glass menu.Labels: 2007, Google, Search
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Using Google's new translation service, you can translate this website into a number of different languages. Try it now!
Labels: 2007, Foreign Language, French, German, Google, Italian, Portuguese, Search, Spanish
 eBay has been the consistant best source for buying Saint items worldwide for a long time. To make it easier to find and bid on the latest new Saint items on eBay I have created an eBay Saint RSS feed. This feed searches for all items that have the words The Saint or Le Saint and also have at least one mention of Roger Moore, Ian Ogilvy, Leslie Charteris, George Sanders, or the Volvo 1800. It also leaves out all VHS and DVD listings as they are really numerous! The listings are sorted by newest items first, so the most recent additions will always be at the top.
This can be used in a couple different ways:
- You can go directly to the RSS feed and connect it to your My Yahoo, Google, or MSN Home page using the tools in the side menu of the Feedburner feed.
 eBay Saint RSS feed.
- You can subscribe to e-mail updates via the FeedBlitz form below:
Labels: 2006, DVD, eBay, Google, Ian Ogilvy, Leslie Charteris, Roger Moore, RSS, Search, Val Kilmer
Add The Saint Blog to My Yahoo, Google, or MSN
By clicking on one of the buttons below you can get The Saint's Blog added to your My Yahoo page, your Personalized Google Page, or your MSN Home Page. This way, you'll never miss any of the latest Saint news!
Labels: 2006, Google, RSS, Search
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