Phil Windley has done something really neat -- and something that I want to do on my intranet -- built a standardized calendar interchange where key events can be automatically posted on his weblog via RSS. I think this should be a simple thing to do in Conversant, I'm just not sure it supports iCal. But it should, as that's about the only "standard" going in the calendar space, AFIK.

Where Am I Going? Blog Events from iCal. Thursday while I was listening to Ben Hammersly's talk on the semantic something or other, I noticed that he had a box on his weblog that showed events he was planning to attend in the near future. I thought that was a good idea, so I put one on my weblog too. If you look to the right, you'll see a box labeled Upcoming Events that lists things I'm planning on going to in the next 90 days. I didn't really want to double enter this on my calendar and my blog, so I decided I'd link the box on my blog to the calendar I keep on my Powerbook. This is the story of how I did it. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

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I'm planning to attend OSCOM at Harvard in May. It would be nice to get a chance to see TypePad around the time of the conference. It would provide a good reference point.

TypePad will lead CMS revolution.

Content Management Systems are becoming mass-market, according to this story by Ben Hammersley about TypePad after an exclusive peak:

The features are remarkable: there is a very powerful, but extremely simple, template builder. Users can redesign their weblogs and create fully compliant XHTML pages, with out knowing what that last phrase means. There is a built-in photo album, built-in server stats, so you can see who is coming to visit you and from where, built-in blogrolling (listing the sites you like to read), and built-in listing for your music, books and friends, producing a complete friend-of-a-friend file for every user. In short, with Typepad, SixApart has embraced almost every advance in weblogging over the past year, and wrapped it into a product my dad could use. It raises the bar for the personal publishing world in a way that the Blogger/ Google buyout promised but has yet to deliver. [...]

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