Category: Weblogs

I’ve subscribed to the atom mailing list.  Previously, I would have set up a filter to move incoming mailing list traffic to a specific folder.  Now that I have a server colocated, I just set up a new email address for it.

That works.

It looks like I’m currently down from my listing on the top 10 for “Matt” on Google.  Here are my conclusions:

1. The first rule of PageRank is that you do not discuss PageRank.
2. The second rule of PageRank is that you do not discuss PageRank.

I am Jack’s hypertext transfer protocol.

Leslie Walker at The Washington Post:

The “blogosphere” may never be the same after America Online releases free blog-publishing software to its 34 million members this summer.

Ack!  I know my nightmare for tonight.  I know the news of AOL Blogs is not new, but for some reason it just struck me.

If you start seeing things like A/S/L? in your comments later this summer, you’ll know why.

Here’s an update from the validator formerly known as the RSS Validator and now known as the Feed Validator:

The validator is now known as the “Feed Validator”, because it now supports multiple syndication formats with different names. (Previously it only supported the seven different formats called “RSS”.) Specifically, there is now preliminary support for Pie, based on the July 1 snapshot. As the format evolves, the validator will be updated to support it.

Sweet!  Check out what’s new for the new version of the validator:

It includes 225 new test cases for Pie, as well as the existing 326 test cases for RSS.

This is definately a step in the right direction.  It’s good to have an authoritative answer on what consititutes a good feed, be it RSS, RDF, or pie (not echo).

Dave Winer:

Interesting timing. Mark Pilgrim shuts off discussion in a thread, just as the light is beginning to shine, clear and bright.

Mark Pilgrim posted an example implementation of the RESTian (not)Echo API.  He also posts an XML-RPC implementation for comparison.  He turned off comments for a reason.  I think he was trying to get people to go over to the wiki and post their comments/questions/improvements rather than start a flamewar on his weblog.

Which one is more constructive?

Moderators: Please don’t mark this -1 (Flamebait).  It really shouldn’t be.  Granted, the flamable keywords are there: Winer, Pilgrim, Necho, REST, XML-RPC; but that’s not my intent.  Take the political aspect out of it (if that’s possible).  It’s all just angle brackets anyway.  It’s not worth getting upset over.

To Sam Gentile: take care.  I hope we’ll see you again.

Python Desktop Server:

The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool, XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or macros, and a plugin architecture.

I found this via freshmeat this morning.  This looks like a great addition to other free tools like bzero and PyCS.  Congrats all around.

Davenet on Google-Blogger:

But this ain’t Kansas anymore. Blogging is growing up, and when we look back, the Google-Blogger deal will probably be seen as an inflection point, perhaps *the* moment when it all changed.

Evan Williams:

Oh, hi. Welcome to my home page. My name is Ev.

I’m a little busy right now, retooling for a different life. So I’ve taken the blog offline to clear my head.

Here are two good links from .netWire this morning.  The first should give the various .NETWeblogs some flow:

If you are the kind of person who just can not get enough .NET information, we have just what you are looking for.Many fellow members of your .NET Community have decided (for one reason or another) to start blogging about their experiences with .NET, Software development, and a little splash of life at .NET Weblogs.

The second looks promising for ASP.NET developers:

The ASP.NET Starter Kits are sample ASP.NET applications that provide code to accomplish common Web development tasks. Each sample is complete and well-documented so that you can use the code to kickstart your ASP.NET development projects today.

It sounds like I missed a cool blogger meetup last night:

The blogger meetup was pretty cool. There were only 4 attendees (including myself), but it was agood crowd. It was also neat that the Lehrer Report (PBS) had a crew there to interview us – they are doing a story on bloggers, and wanted to talk to us about what we do and why we do it. They got the crowd they wanted – none of us do political blogs – there’s mine (Smalltalk), an economic blogger, and one on web advertising.

I’ll have to catch it next time around.

Wired News:

The meteoric rise of weblogging is one of the most unexpected technology stories of the past year, and much like the commentary that populates these ever-changing digital diaries, the story of blogging keeps evolving.

One recent trend is “moblogging,” or mobile weblogging. New tools like Manywhere Moblogger, Wapblog and FoneBlog allow bloggers to post information about the minutiae of their lives from anywhere, not just from a PC.

Congrats to Russ for the Wired linkage.  I’m personally quite stunned to be on the recieving end of Wired linkage.

John Robb:

Radio back-up and restore is here.

Phil Waineright:

Google has bought Pyra Labs, the company behind the Blogger weblog publishing tool, it emerged last night. Appropriately, the story was broken in a weblog maintained by tech journalist and columnist Dan Gillmor, which previews a story that will run in today’s San Jose Mercury News.

Related coverage:

• Paolo: “Ok, you’ve heard the news by now: Weblogs are going Googling.”
• Russ: “Yep. Wow… that’s exciting.”
• Dave Winer: “Google News query for Pyra.”
• Phillip: “I don’t usually repost things from Slashdot, but this sort of thing doesn’t happen every day”
• Dave Johnson: “Holy crap is right.”
• Jeremy Zawodny: “Cool. Go Google!”
• Rajesh Jain: “Google enters the world of blogs.”
• Evan: “Note to self: When you get off this panel, you should probably comment on this.”

Simon Fell:

RC5 of Aggie is now available

David Gammel notes that Aggie now supports scraping of sites that don’t have RSS feeds.

Good stuff.

Mark also has some great tips and tricks to get the most out of 2.6.

Buzzwordometer is fun.  I found it via my referrers this evening.  Here are my stats:

• My overall buzzwordosity: 749
• Suit: 321
• Geek: 928

That sounds pretty buzzword compliant to me.  Maybe my suit result will increase with more use of the word synergy.  Buzzwordometer has the potential to be a quickly rising and popular meme, catch it before it’s last week.

It’s interesting to note that Erik’s site scores 814, and an amazing 999 on geek!