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Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:56:00 GMT

Microsoft Takes Its Software on a Road Trip. To try to persuade record labels and movie studios to adopt the Windows Media software, Microsoft decided it needed a van. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Business]

Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:51:49 GMT

Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell Their Songs Online. Increasingly desperate for customers, several major record labels have resolved to make more music legally available for less money online even if it means sacrificing lucrative CD sales. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Business]

Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:43:34 GMT

Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:20:57 GMT

Posting to Movable Type, Radio and Blogger!

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:42:26 GMT

Posting to Movable Type, Radio and Blogger!

This is a test of a new post that goes to MT and Radio.

Since I have the Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool also running, it goes to a third place.

Just posting to Rado is enough to trigger its logic alongside that of the outliner's.

Should I enable Blogger posting too?

Sure. What the heck.

It works. Yehi.

Let's have fun!

Outline attributes

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:36:54 GMT

The top level headline for each post has several invisible attributes attached

1. type: weblogPost.

2. checksum: A 32-character string, the result of MD5 encoding the concatenation of the title, link and description for the post.

3. ids: a table, containing the post id for one or more of the weblog managers. (You're allowed to flow your posts out to more than one.) The three possible sub-items are called blogger, radio, or movableType.

How they work together

When you first create a post, it has none of these attributes. They're added the first time you Publish.

Each subsequent time you Publish, the checksum is recomputed and compared against the stored value. If they are equal, we don't transmit the post. This allows you to keep dozens of posts around without slowing down publishing. Only the items that changed are retransmitted.

The post id is needed to make this work, and luckily the Blogger API provides for this.

What's missing

A permalink is sorely needed.

What I want to do is put my cursor on a post, click the View button, and a browser window opens, showing what the post looks like to my readers. This makes it easy to check links, and for formatting errors.

Note that the three blogging tools all allow posting of arbitrary HTML text through their XML-RPC interfaces. This is fantastic, it means you can use the outliner to construct and tweak HTML and XHTML structures.

I implemented support for this in Radio a couple of days ago. It took about five minutes to do. I imagine it would be equally easy for Blogger and Movable Type.

Please consider this a feature request. ;->

Disclaimer

If there's already a way to do this please let me know. It's happened before.

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:19:09 GMT

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:07:38 GMT

Let's see if this shows up on my Radio weblog. Testing 1-2-3.

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:28:46 GMT

4-5-6

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:46:37 GMT

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:11:01 GMT

Fortune: "Katz spends all his time making money from patents rather than selling an actual product or a service."

Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:22:50 GMT

Who was Deep Throat?

Hey I've got a really nice feature programmed into the Weblog Outliner

Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:23:39 GMT

Put the outline cursor on a blog post (a top level headline) and click on the View button.

The browser comes to the front and shows you the public view of the weblog post.

Note: This will only work with apps that support the MetaWeblog API.

The Blogger API doesn't have a way for the client to find the permalink for a post. (Please correct me if this is wrong.)

Sun, 09 Jun 2002 21:13:25 GMT

Testing with the MetaWeblog API from the outliner

Sun, 09 Jun 2002 16:59:39 GMT

This item should have a title and a link. This text appears in the body of the post.

Hey baby, it fcuking worked. How's that.

Screen shot.

Test Post for Metaweblog API glue

Sun, 09 Jun 2002 16:03:41 GMT

I am working on Frontier/Radio glue for the MetaWeblog API. At first I thought it wasn't needed, but then I got to a place where I wanted the distinction betweeen using the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API to be minimal, so it was time to build a parallel way of calling the MWA. That's what these glue scripts are for.

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 23:32:26 GMT

Progress on the Weblog Outliner. I have it working with Blogger, modulo an outage on blogger.com. As a fallback, I'm testing with a Manila site that emulates the Blogger API (note, they all do). Here's my latest post, and a screen shot of it being edited in the outliner.

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:33:59 GMT

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:54:26 GMT

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 01:55:01 GMT

Steve Zellers: "The problem I have with SOAP and web services right now is that too much is being shoehorned into what should be a fairly trivial spec. We should be done by now, but we never will be because the cost to implement the spec will be too great." [Scripting News]

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 01:53:32 GMT

ReplayTV Users Sue for Right to Skip Commercials. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Users of a digital video recorder sued media companies on Thursday to win a guarantee that they are not breaking the law when they skip commercials and record television programs for later viewing. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 01:52:56 GMT

Security Hole Found in KaZaA File-Sharing Service. A study showed that users of KaZaA, an Internet service for sharing music files, frequently expose personal files on their computers by misconfiguring the program. By John Markoff and Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 23:41:30 GMT

Trying out Mozilla 1.0

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 20:09:53 GMT

This is a test of Mozilla 1.0 as a way of editing my Radio weblog.

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:11:02 GMT

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 16:43:18 GMT

Test post. 1.

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 16:03:31 GMT

A tiny change in Radio's aggregator makes referer logs more interesting. Please read this if you have a site that's a source for Radio users, and you watch your referer logs. This change could be confusing if you don't read the doc carefully. Thanks!

Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:54:41 GMT

Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:53:39 GMT

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:54:49 GMT

Mind-bomb: Weblog Neighborhood Tool.

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:33:23 GMT

I'm working on a harvester now, helping Jon Udell get up to speed. Notes are here.

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 10:42:40 GMT

This is a test post to see if I broke anything. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:49:33 GMT

Jack Valenti, in 1982: "We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright." [Scripting News]

Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:01:46 GMT

One of tomorrow's innovations. More links for Radio weblogs. It's going to point to the blogroll OPML, if it's present; and to mySubscriptions.opml, and a change in the format for the link to the RSS feed. We won't release the code until tomorrow, to provide a very brief comment period. This weblog already has the three types of links in its head. View source to see what they look like.

Sun, 02 Jun 2002 16:02:35 GMT

Sun, 02 Jun 2002 01:35:59 GMT

U.S. Web Browsers Continue a Global Turn. Several leading foreign policy organizations say their Web sites are getting several million hits a month, up substantially from the period before Sept. 11. By Barbara Crossette. [New York Times: Technology]

Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:10:59 GMT