Blogging Roller

The other week, we got the news that the Lucene search engine team chose Atom protocol for it's new Lucene-WS web services interface. Now, Web 2.0 darling Ning.com has joined the Atom protocol club with the Ning Atom API. Is Atom protocol generic enough to become the standard for REST based web services? Via Sam Ruby.

Daryl Taft of eWeek interviewed me a couple of weeks ago and the resulting article Sun's Open-Source Roller Keeps Blogs Rolling was published today. The article covers Roller history, Apache Roller status, RSS and Atom in Action, the Blogapps project of RSS and Atom utilities and even mentions my year and a half honeymoon in Jamaica as a GRASS consultant. I'm very happy to get some more publicity for Roller and for the book, which will be officiallly complete tomorrow, available in e-book form next week and hopefully printed later this month.