I'm back, kiddies. Things that happened while I was gone over the weekend:
- I did not check email for two whole days
- Drove 120+ miles to Duluth, MN with my girlfriend and chilled out
- Walked many miles, hurt my leg.
- Took some really scenic pictures of the area
- Didn't think about blogging ;)
With that all said, I have finally gotten my blogging tool of choice working correctly finally, and I will resume the blogging. I lost all my old posts and my themes, but I promise to keep going.
I've recently made some decisions about Journalism and my school career. I'm not interested in reporting. Or advertising. Or public relations. It's all crap. This book and maybe this book are all you need. I just wish the poor kids in the J-School knew this.
Therefore, I will still be covering Blogging-As-Journalism, but maybe not to the extent that I was hoping for. Blogging is hard work, and I am lazy.
For the past few months, I've been throwing around ideas about creating something like Radio Userland and it's Community Server, but keeping it open-sourced. I'm not interesting in competing with Userland. In fact, I'd love to see 100% interoperability between the applications. That's what the web is all about anyway, right?
One step along the way in my quest is a thing called BlogML. Check out the forums. Drop us a note and some ideas if you're a developer. There's a little goblin in the back of my head that is still asking why RSS can't be used as a weblog archival format.
The general equation of my plot goes something like:
Servlet Container + Cocoon + XMLRPC + XML Database
Again, if you're not technically inclined, you can probably ignore that ;)
I'm also plotting something similar which will act in the same fashion as RCS.
Competition? Nope. Cooperation!
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