Topic
- Weblog Writer's Meeting on 2003/12/18
- Disclaimer
- These notes are a best effort.
- Blog your corrections and commentary.
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- Webcast Details
- This will be webcast
- And recorded for later on RealMedia (possibly MP3 as well)
- Chat back on #bloggercon!!
- RO will be speaking for IRCers
- Attendants
- DW: Dave Winer
- JM: Jay McCarthy
- WK: Wendy Koslow
- SZ: Sooz
- VN: Vernica
- JB: Jessica
- SR: Shimon Rura
- MF: Michael Feldman
- SN: Sun
- RO: Ryan Overbey
- BS: Bob Stepno
- LW: Lisa Williams
- Past Attendants
- CL: Christopher Lydon
- G: Gregor
- MW: Mike Walsh
- AG: Andrew Grumet
- AS: Aaron Swartz
- FT: Fons Tuinstra
- LM: Larry Mils
- RH: Rick Heller
- JH: Jeffrey Henning
- JiM: Jim Moore
- SJ: Scott Johnson
- TA: Tracy Adams
- Topics
- How Michael Feldman (MF) edits his blog
- A direction for what we're doing
- MF - A provocative idea... many different blog styles here, maybe we can do demos of that style?
- MF - I would go first if I had a Dreamweaver / Manilla setup
- That's how he does the image layouts
- Andrew Grumet (AG) won't be here, let's talk about his IAP sessions on weblog training
- Should be open and free to anyone at MIT
- Dave's Great Demo (DGD)
- Mostly a story but a bit of demo
- The story is mainly about standards
- Dave talking about co-located servers as a prelude to DGD
- Everyone pings weblogs.com and it's now in Dave's space
- Now weblogs.com is happy and not broken like it used to be
- Talking about performance of the sites
- Lots of people were pinging weblogs with rss requests
- And there were a whole bunch of DeanSpace sites in it... WTF?
- Whenever they go through, he subscribed to them...
- and now you have - deancommunity.scripting.com - an aggregator for the Dean community
- You get a very different view of Dean when you actually see everything...
- No longer do they just have their weblog and then they let a bunch of people post comments
- All the Dean Blogs were like a ghost town
- Equally interesting - the geeks in the Dean world used Dave's service
- If the Dean community has more resources like this it would be great to build tools on them
- Not because we want to support Dean but so we can have a Moon mission and get somewhere with the software
- All open formats so we can do stuff with the information
- Work with us without knowing they're doing it
- MF - Aggregator questions
- MF, can we have multiple aggregators for different things?
- That's a big deal... there's lots of vendors providing that sort of thing
- Does deancommunity provide a new RSS feed or OPML file?
- Who should be able to subscribe to an OPML file?
- New Years Resolutions
- Think more about how to spin out getting weblogs in the world (once there is funding)
- Check out mygoals.com
- Boston.com will get RSS feeds
- Where else do we need RSS feeds?
- Berkman is nailed - what about the rest of Harvard?
- The State Department needs to announce its warnings that way
- Metaphysical conversation about the truth
- DW will talk about the GhostWriterRouter
- The UI will be easier in the future - just say what the blogging software
- You point to a bunch of blogs you have that support the MetaWeblogAPI
- You do a post and designate that it shall go to multiple weblogs
- It will get posted to them!
- And get updated if you ever change it
- The demo wasn't meant to be though... at least with newhome.weblogs.com
- What about one of the others? Bummer
- Where to eat?
- Note: Next two weeks there are no meetings.
- But maybe sunday we should have a dinner?
- Not Discussed but Mentioned
- Next Week Topics
- MF will demo his Dreamweaver / Manilla blogging
- DW talk about inclusion in Channel Z
- Talk more about Salons
- Notes