Blogging Roller

Simon P. Chappell writes "We've all seen them, those icons that decorate blogs and websites; sometimes they're just little orange squares with white stripes, while others say RSS or Atom. Many of us have heard of feeds and podcasts and aggregators. What are these things and where did they come from? Well, Dave Johnson, the author of the open source Roller blogging software, is glad you asked and by way of an answer, he's written RSS and Atom in Action." Read the rest of Simon's review.

Woohoo! Simon likes the book and gives it an 8/10 rating.

Via the Open Office Tips'n'Tricks blog:

Finally, the new blogging extension for StarOffice and OpenOffice.org is available. Browse to the Sun Store at http://globalspecials.sun.com/ and click the link or go direct to this page

Now formatting your Blog is as easy as in Writer. Include pictures. Use the spellchecker.

You can retrieve your existing blog entries, edit them in Writer and then upload with a single click.

I haven't tried it yet, so I can't say whether or not it's worth the $9.95 download price. I must admit, I'm a surprised that it's payware (not that there's any wrong with that). Is the pay-for-plugins model something new for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice?