JavaOne proposals
A first for me: I submitted a couple of proposals for JavaOne 2005. The first one is a joint session with four speakers (that may pose a problem) titled Beyond Blogging: Feed Syndication and Publishing with Java. If the proposal is accepted Kevin Burton, Patrick Chanezon, Alejanro Abdelnur, and I will discuss the Java tools available for feed syndication, FeedParser, Rome, Roller, and BlogClient. We'll also discuss plans for moving towards a standard Java API for feed parsing, generation, and publishing. The second paper is titled Enterprise Blogging With Java and it is basically an updated and improved version of the talk I gave at the Triangle and Orlando/Gainesville JUGs last year.
Moving on to part II and the blog apps
Some status on Blogs, Wikis, and Feeds in Action: I submitted Chapter 8: Publishing with Atom last week, bringing me to the end of part I of the book. Now I'm moving on to Part II, a collection of blog apps, example applications that are designed to be interesting an immediately useful. One of the first blog apps is a simple community aggregator, like a simple more limited version of Planet. That is quite convenient, because I'm also supposed to be working on a more full featured aggregator for the blogs.sun.com front page.
Anil's new Roller plugins
Anil has put together a couple of Roller plugins for Google links and Technorati tags. He has also set up his very own wiki.