Blogging Roller

O'Reilly's new rough cuts service gives you access to books as they are being written. I especially like the fact that they "welcome feedback on both the book's content and the service itself." It's definitely a good idea to get the readers into the development process. Kinda reminds me of the SourceBeat concept. Via Joho the Blog.

We're getting ready to release Roller 2.1 (incubating). This release turned out to be a pretty big one. We focused on performance, comment management and spam prevention, but we also added a host of other small changes, fixes and improvements. Here's a summary of the most significant changes: What's new in Roller 2.1.