Blogging Roller

Congressman Brad Miller (house.gov/bradmiller) and his campaign manager PJ Puryear showed up at Cafe Cyclo tonight for the Raleigh blog meet-up to learn more about blogging and connect with fellow bloggers. How cool is that! I don't think he expected to run into a bunch of geeky tech bloggers, but despite that we had a great time talking blog search and RSS and politics (apparently, everybody present was a democrat). And, I made sure to get in a word or two about the evils of DRM and the broadcast flag. Check out Josh's and Bill's blogs for more about the evening.

Also... I almost forgot to mention that I got to take a behind the scenes look at the IBM  DeveloperWorks Roller implementation. Bill logged in and showed me around. They're still on Roller 2.0, so they don't have comment management/moderation, but they do have tagging and they've made a couple of small layout changes to the editor/admin UI.

I forgot to post the reminder this morning, but what the heck it's not too late. Join us at Cafe Cyclo in Cameron Village to talk blogs, podcasts and whatever else is on your mind.  We meet at 6:30PM and usually break up around 9PM. Josh has the details.

• Moonwatcher Visionaries: Bill Gates on RSS at Mix06
  "The importance of Microsoft's strong adoption of RSS cannot be overstated."
• Windows RSS Platform to Ship Without Secure Feed Support
  "As Attensa and NewsGator let out a collective sigh of relief."
• Atom as a Case Study
  Tim Bray explains why and how Atom feed format and protocol was created (adapted from his ETech talk)
• NewsGator to sync to Windows RSS platform
  Users will be able to subscribe to feeds in IE7, sync and view items from the feed in NewsGator