Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2004

Yesterday, talking with Marcus Mauller, we figured out how to integrate BitTorrent with Manila. The key is to do it through Gems. In a special Manila site on a server running the BitTorrent software, when you upload a Gem to that site, it automatically generates a meta file, and links to it in the Gems table listing. It's the perfect user interface. The content creator needs to know nothing about the difficult process of Torrent-izing a media file, the URL is handled the same way the non-Torrent URL is handled. [Scripting News] 9:36:46 PM   trackback [] 

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The Wall Street Journal explores the world of Iraqi weblogs. [Scripting News] 9:34:15 PM   trackback [] 

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When asked what they want to be when they grow up, kids will supply many different answers, such as doctor, lawyer, veterinarian, and contestant on Survivor. However, one of the most common responses is that they’d like to be astronauts. Most of us have stared into the sky thinking about the possibility of jetting up into space. We imagine the views and the weightlessness, and think about what it would be like to use one… By rss_feedback@lockergnome.com (Brandon Watts). [Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics] 9:26:34 PM   trackback [] 

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For those who think podcasting is brand-new, consider this. A year before my June audio posts, a year before Daily Source Code or Trade Secrets, Chris Lydon was doing what we called a weblog for the ears. It had all essential ingredients of a podcast, a studio that fit in a knapsack (designed by Bob Doyle) an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures, and an inspired amateur on a mission from god. Let's not overlook their contribution. [Scripting News] 1:22:33 AM   trackback [] 

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Protest gegen Verhaftung von Online-Journalisten im Iran [heise online news] 1:18:25 AM   trackback [] 

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UserLand Buzzing with Improvements. In the past six weeks, UserLand Software has released more than 14 updates to Manila, the server software running all of the weblogs on Buzzword.Com. I added these updates today and they appear -- tempting fate here -- to be running properly.

UserLand Product News describes these changes, which improve the performance of the software, swat bugs, and add a few new features. Here are the upgrades most noticeable to weblog publishers:

• On a discussion board, message subject length has been increased from 60 to 255 characters and the new message subject field has been widened.
• A weblog's shared news aggregator can read newsfeeds in the Atom format in addition to RSS.
• The performance of Manila RPC has been improved, making it easier to update weblogs with third-party software that employs this interface such as Daniel Berliner's Archipelago weblog editor.

I have around a dozen e-mails from Buzzword users looking for help with problems running the software. I'll be working on them here and on the Manila customer support forum, the best place to get the attention of UserLand developers. [Workbench] 1:16:01 AM   trackback [] 

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