Joi Ito's Moblogging, Blogmapping and Moblogmapping related resources as of 1/18/2003 18:00. Nice moblog directory
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Joi Ito's Moblogging, Blogmapping and Moblogmapping related resources as of 1/18/2003 18:00
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10:32:43 PM    
  
Ben Hammersley.com: Trackback in the saddle again. (SOURCE:Scripting News)-Nice summary of the various conversation tracking mechanisms! Thanks!
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There's been a lot of thinking about TrackBacks lately, with lots of variants coming up, and being coded. It's great stuff, and so very promising, but I've been losing track. To help myself out, I made a list. Does anyone know of any more?
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10:30:26 PM    
  
Cohesion. (SOURCE:"sam ruby")-Nice summary of TrackBack like systems aka Usenet News extended and embraced by Weblog tech!
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This document describes some of the currently popular techniques used to promote collaboration and group forming via weblogs. If you are not familiar with the concepts of weblogs, RSS, HTML, and referers, it might be helpful to review these concepts as described in Manufactured Serendipity.
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10:27:11 PM    
  
RSS to Blog. (SOURCE:Scripting News)-Very cool! Thanks!
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It polls an RSS feed and sends all new items up to a blog using the metaWeblog API. You could make a primitive news aggregator out of it if you like -- install one copy per feed, and run them all in turn. They'll fetch the new posts and dump them all in a blog for you. It should work with either Movable Type or Radio.
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10:26:29 PM    
  
Ben Hammersley.com: Announcing Weblog Hacks. Looking forward to checking this book out!
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This is so exciting. Today - and this is so new it's not even on the official site yet - we can announce my new book for O'Reilly, and it's one you're invited to contribute to... Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, give it up for: Weblog Hacks Part of the Hacks series, the book will consist of at least 100 cool tricks, tips and techniques for the advanced blogger. The things yo'momma never taught you, the things you've always wanted to do, the things you wish you'd known when you started, all in one beautiful two-colour tome. And here's the deal: I'm looking for contributors. Do you have some thing shiny you want to share? Email Me. You'll get full credit, and your name, bio and URL in the back of the book. We'll be covering Blogger, b2, Diaryland, Blosxom, Movable Type, LiveJournal, and Radio Userland, plus cool stuff for home grown systems. I'm including everything from CSS hacks to Moblogging, so get thinking, polish off that code, sharpen up that template, brush up those cool URLs and get in touch.
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10:24:26 PM    
  
Radio macro to display author byline in a multi-author weblog. (SOURCE:"radio-dev")-Put this macro in #itemTemplate.txt file to display the author byline in a Radio multi-author weblog. Nice! Thanks!
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<%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.["<%paddedItemNum%>"]); if defined (adrpost^.sourceName) {return ( string.popSuffix (adrpost^.sourceName, ":") )} else {return ("")}%>
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10:23:06 PM    
  
Kit: does HTTPS Subscriptions, TrackBack, Pretty Prints UserTalk Scripts and lots of other great stuff. Very cool. OK, now I only need a way to display the trackbacks which is the other half of trackback. Thanks MarcMark! [Roland Tanglao: WebCMS]
10:20:52 PM    
  
RSS Version Comparison. (SOURCE:Scripting News)-Excellent reference.
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Identifies key differences between RSS versions.
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10:18:16 PM    
  

Simple explanation of trackback. [cruftbox]

A little gory, but clear.

Trackback for Beginners [Movable Type]

More detailed.

10:14:32 PM    
  
Making An RSS Feed. UPDATE: As [Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "560" hasn't been defined.] pointed out in the comments to this post
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Danny already states this in his article: "Don't know HTML? Start a blog, because several blogging tools automatically generates RSS files."
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I stand corrected. Should have read it more closely but then again Danny should probably have titled the article, "What is an RSS feed, why you need one and how it works!" rather than "Making An RSS feed".

(SOURCE:Scripting News)-As Dave pointed out in today's Scripting News, any decent blogging system like Radio, Manila, etc. will do this automatically for you so non developers don't have to bother following the instructions here. [Roland Tanglao: WebCMS]

9:54:07 PM    
  
How (and why) to include an xhtml:body in a Radio UserLand RSS feed. (SOURCE:"jonu")-Jon plans on stuffing all the blog content (from his blog and others) into an XML aware database and then manipulate and query it from the database. Go Jon go! This sounds like great fun! Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. <quote> Sam Ruby and Don Box have both demonstrated valid RSS 2.0 feeds (Sam, Don) that include a element, properly namespaced as XHTML. Quietly, last week, I joined the party. My primary feed now includes: 1. A brief . 2. The full text of the item, as an HTML-escaped string, in a element.1 3. The full text of the item, as XHTML, in a element Although it enlarged my RSS feed, the XHTML body shouldn't have affected -- and indeed seems not to have affected -- any existing RSS-aware software. So, what's it good for? In an upcoming O'Reilly Network column, I lay out the case. I want to aggregate feeds into XML-aware databases, and be able to run precise XPath queries against those databases. Given these capabilities, it makes sense to invest in more and better descriptive markup. That, in my view, is how we bootstrap from the existing blogosphere to the semantic web. Not by defining a cosmic ontology. But rather from the bottom up, by building consensus around incremental enrichment of the stuff we write every day. </quote> [Roland Tanglao: WebCMS]
6:03:58 PM    
  

Jon Zittrain on The Google Death Penalty

[Scripting News]

Ways to get into trouble that you never dreamed existed.

5:55:09 PM    
  
OPML and directories.

One year ago I wrote a technological ramble about Google, directories and OPML. It's still the way of the future, imho. There's no single root of the Web, so why should directories (like Yahoo, DMOZ, Looksmart) have single roots? And therein lies the problem with directories, and why we're not effectively cataloging the knowledge of our species on the Internet.

A case in point. Last week I pointed to a great directory of RSS aggregators. What an excellent directory. So why not also have it available in a format where it can be included in other directories? I should be able to delegate to the author and include it in the directory I keep for RSS. Why should I have to reinvent the wheel? Would he want me to? I'm burning to get this idea broadly implemented. When we do, the Web will grow by another order of magnitude.

The challenge: Put all that we know on the Internet and give people the tools to present it in a myriad of ways. Let a thousand flowers bloom. No one owns the keys to knowledge. That's Jeffersonian software. The Web, of course, was modeled after the printed page, with all its limits. This new Web is modeled after the mind of man.

By the way, one of the reasons I'm networking with librarians at Harvard is that I am driven to build this new knowledge base. They have a lot of libraries at Harvard. It's a big source of pride for the university. See, there is a method to my madness. ";->"

[Scripting News]
9:10:02 AM    
  
Blogging Links Resource Guide. I've just uploaded my first draft of Blogging Links. On this page, you'll find hundreds of categorized links to weblog publishing, mobile blogging, blogging search engines and related resources and articles. Please comment and let me know if there are other resources that I should add. [Doug Fox -- The Future of Meetings]
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