JavaBlogs.

Adina on the JavaBlogs and Java.net communities:

...The discussion on the Java.net and JavaBlogs shows some classic tensions between a commercial software vendor, which wants to support a community of developers, and developer community, who self-organize, and want support from the commercial vendors.

It will be interesting to see how the communities evolve. Will there be syndication and federation techniques that bridge communities in different locations, or will developers choose affiliations?

Meanwhile, this is a strong sign of commercial interest in the value of weblog and wiki tools in supporting developer communities.

As with the hybrids between independent blogging and traditional journalism, the interesting question isn't the "purity" of any model. It's the process of evolution at work creating new variants. The most compelling new variants will survive.

[via BookBlog]

Community bridging already occurs through RSS and Federation.  Java.net RSS feeds are easily added to JavaBlogs.  Sure, more can be done.  But that's the beauty of these simple blog protocols, they open communities.  You wouldn't have this level of discussion and interchange between communities on a Bulletin Board based community.

[Ross Mayfield: On Blogging] 
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Road Map. Road map from here on out? I'm going to pick a topic at a time from the wiki and explore it in depth on my weblog. ... [Sam Ruby] 
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HTML With Just Five Tags and CSS.

Read about Don Ulrich's adventure into HTML and CSS jungle that resulted in a client-side XSL stylesheet able to render his XML documents into fast loading HTML pages using just five tags: <div>, <span>, <a>, <img>, and <hr>.  His XSL stylesheet is here (.XSL).  Neato.

"A while back you pointed to Adventcode and myself [Fireball as a Candle]. You spoke of CSS style coflicting with CSS design. The conversation was about CSS Zen Garden and the inability to read it. I took what you said as a challange to use CSS a tool for construct while maintaining style. AdventCode now uses just 5 HTML tags and CSS to control the XML/XSL output. It is very fast. Using a minimum of HTML tags also allowed me to tighten up the content. Thank You for the encourgement. Yes CSS can do more than look pretty. It can also control content." - Don Ulrich by e-mail.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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Hitting the Reset Button.. Could it be possible to reach general consensus on a syndication format and common publishing API for all? Could we put an end to the morass of pointless political posturings, egotistical rants and FUD slinging that have plagued RSS and Weblog APIs? [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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Funkyness Illustrated.

This is an attempt to remove the ongoing confusion over the funkyness I have accused MT and Six Apart of perpetuating.  I hope these examples will dispell any FUD hanging over us.

NOT-FUNKY RSS FEEDS:

       

FUNKY RSS FEEDS:

       

As you can see in these examples, funky RSS feeds replace common RSS tags with RSS 1.0 extensions.

Destruction is not extension nor innovation!

MT's default template generates these sort of funky RSS feeds.  If they didn't realize the problem before, they should have fixed it by now.  All they have done so far are public silence plus private finger pointing at RSS 1.0 proponents.

After watching Dave Winer and others struggle politely, I have used nastyness as a cutting edge to rip through the FUD and intentional silences.  Some might say my post was irresponsible, but I believe Six Apart and RSS 1.0 folks are the [Don Park's Blog] 
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