Blogging Roller

• rc3.org: Predictions for 2007
  Web applications, spam, web advertising, decentralized communication for weblogs
• Wired News: Legal Predictions for 2007
  "Courts will finally have to deal with the growing use of licenses and terms of service that change default computer access, free speech and copyright rules"
• Enterprise 2.0: Ten Predictions for 2007
  "web applications like blogs and wikis are just the beginning of the Enterprise 2.0 story..."
• Steve Anglin: 2006 Java Technology Winners and Losers
  In the comments: Eclipse is "leaking air and marketshare to increasingly popular NetBeans"
• Southeast VC: Predictions 2007 - 1/2
  "The Year of Apple; Investment Opportunities Emerge Around Search and Filtering Tools"
• Southeast VC: Predictions 2007 - 2/2
  "Tech IPO Market Returns; Web 2.0 Takes on Real Definition and the Internet Emerges as a Replacement for TV"
• Portals and KM: Enterprise 2.0 Predictions for 2007
  "platforms that deliver apps for blogging, wiki creation, and social networking within a single framework"
• Web 2.0 Predictions for 2007 - The RSS Blog
  Randy's list of 2007 predictions and links to some some other interesting lists
• Wired News: Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
  25 predictions from the Wired News Staff
• 5 Disruptive Technologies To Watch In 2007 - InformationWeek
  "including RFID, advanced graphics, and virtualization"

Six Apart's Anil Dash was interviewed on The Corporate Blogging Show, which is the Voice America show associated with the blog associated with the book. It's worth a listen if you're interested in corporate blogging or what's going on with SixApart, the company behind Movable Type, LiveJournal, Typepad and Vox.

Placeblogger is a new blog and aggregation site that's all about local blogging from Lisa Williams and friends. It's powered by Bryte, which is based on the Drupal content management system and offers blogs, feed aggregations, photo galleries and polls.

You can help build the database by submitting your favorite place blogs. The database supports a number of different "blog types." You can add aggregations, so Joe's local planets would be suitable, and you can add community sites so Orange Politics would fit right in too. I submitted Raleighing.

Here's some more reading on the topic:

• Wired: Get Your Local Fix
• Jay Rosen: Check out Placeblogger.com

Dear Digg.com,

I'm one of the developers of the Apache Roller (incubating) software used by Sun and IBM and others for employee blogging. Our users want to be able to post via Digg.com, but your MetaWeblog API support is lacking.

Roller is not one of the blog servers listed in the Digg Profile area, so we have to use the "manual setup" option, but in manual setup option, you give users the abilty to set only:
- username
- password
- blog URL
- Metaweblog API URL

That won't work. Each of our users can have multiple blogs, so Digg.com needs to tell Roller which blog to post to. The standard way to do that is to use the blogid argument of the MetaWeblog API, but you don't support that -- you don't give users a way to set the blogid to be posted to.

Please add proper support for the MetaWeblog API blogid field so Roller users can blog via Digg.

I'd be glad to help you get this right and tested.

Sincerely, Dave Johnson

PS. I sent this to feedback@digg.com in September but got no response at all.

PPS. If you want the problem to be fixed, please Digg this post. I'm not sure it'll work, but don't know how else to get through to the folks at Digg.

Rich has put together a interesting blogapp that pulls all entries from a blog and turns them into a book, using either cups2pdf or OpenOffice.org Writer. I had the same idea when I was writing RSS and Atom in Action, but I was going to go the DocBook route and eventually dropped the idea because DocBook seemed a bit too complex.

I don't think Rich's work is Roller-specific. Rich used Grabber to get the entries out of Roller and into simple HTML files, so the approach should work with other blog servers that support the MetaWeblog API.

The North Carolina Science Blogging Conference, Saturday, January 20, 2007. This is a free, open and public event for scientists, educators, students, journalists, bloggers and anyone interested in discussing science communication, education and literacy on the Web.

See Bora's blog for an update on sessions, sponsors and ways you can help.

Paul Murphy: By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognised as larger and more active than the Linux community - and every competing OS developer community except Microsoft's will have copied the key ideas including its organisational structure, the core provisions in the community development license, and Solaris specific technologies including ZFS and Dtrace.

That's a nice way to start the new year. No doubt plenty of Sun bloggers will be linking to Paul's predictions.