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Tuesday May 03, 2005

NC Museum of Art is blogging too

NCMOA has a blog, powered by Movable Type.

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Tags: triangle blogging

SMEX-D

Tim Bray outlines SMEX-D, a really simple way to describe by REST and SOAP based web services. I like it. I'd like to see the SMEX-D for Atom Protocol right about now. Compare to Norm Walsh's NSDL.

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Tags: Java

Weather blog

WRAL's new Cumulonimbus Corner weather blog, powered by Blogger.com.

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Tags: Blogging

Blogs, Wikis and Feeds in Action: status

Status is: almost complete. I'm wrapping up the last of the new writing and getting ready to revise the chapter on feed parsing to include some things I learned writing the blog apps. We're still waiting on Atom Protocol. Competing books have already gone to print without Atom Protocol, so that will be a good differentiator for us. We've also decided to make some last minute changes in the book. I'll sum them up for you.

First, the biggest change: the title. We found that "Blogs, Wikis and Feeds" is a little confusing and leads folks to believe that the book is about using blogs, wikis and feeds when in reality the book is about developing applications using RSS, Atom and other blog technologies. The leading candidate for the new title is "RSS and Atom in Action" subtitled "building applications with blog technologies."

Next, some chopping. We're going to cut two chapters: the log to your blog with Log4X chapter, which was to show how to use Java/Log4J and/or C#/Log4N to log to a blog, and the BlogClient chapter which was going to show how to build a simple BlogClient GUI with C# and/or Java. I'm happy with this decision becuase the Log4X chapter just wasn't compelling, plus it's dead-simple to implement. And, the BlogClient chapter wasn't that interesting either, considering that there are already plenty of blog clients out there (and I've already posted the code for mine).

And finally, the bookends: new chapters at the beginning and end of the book. We're introducing a Chapter Zero to lead folks into the book, introduce the pre-requisites and the organization of the book. A new end-chapter will cover all of the cool ideas and applications that we couldn't fit in as complete blog apps.

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Tags: Blogging

Raleigh Blog Meetup, Today Cafe Cyclo

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday, May 3rd) for the first
Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup of the month.

What: An open meeting to talk about blogging, 
      podcasting & whatever's on your mind
When: Tues @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: Cafe Cyclo, in Cameron Village

2020 Cameron St
Raleigh, NC 27605 (map)
(919) 829-3773

Who: Bloggers & people who want to blog (Podcasters welcome!)

Hope to see you there!
Via Josh

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Tags: Blogging

Advertisers: don't break the feeds!

Bob Wyman: "If we are to have advertising in RSS and Atom feeds, advertisers must provide those ads in such a way that they don't break the existing blogging and syndication infrastructure. In particular, once an ad is inserted into a feed, it must not be changed unless the content in which it is embedded is also changed. "

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Tags: Blogging

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