Category Archives: Weblogs

Trackback for Live Events

Posted on by David

Doug Fox has been been tracking how bloggers have been interacting at live, f2f, meetings via their blogs. In this post he mentions:

Right now, there is no convenient way for presenters/attendees to reference educational sessions.

I think he is getting at the fact that there is no way with most meeting event web sites to find out who is blogging them live or immediately after the fact.

This sounds like a job for trackback. Attendees could ping individual sessions so that other attendees can see reaction and feedback in a central place. As a matter of fact, Ben and Mena Trott did exactly this for the Mac OS X Conference last year.

MT 2.62 and Counting

Posted on by David

Another upgrade to MT has been released to fix a security vulnerability. A good illustration of why it’s often smart to not implement an x.0 release right off the bat (not just with MS products).

I give them big points for being very responsive and quick to fix these issues when they are identified. Bigger points are available for catching them before release. 🙂

Aggie 1.0 RC5

Posted on by David

A new version of Aggie is out.

This looks like a major upgrade. The most exciting new featrue, imho, is this:

Aggie can now be taught how to transform any structured web page into an RSS feed. This is useful for sites that produce content in an orderly fashion, but publish no RSS feeds of their own (such as MSDN).

Now I can get many sites into my aggregator even if they don’t publish an RSS feed.

The Non-writer Blog

Posted on by David

Phil Wolff has lots of ideas on how to enable non-writers to engage in and benefit from blog-like activity. He has grouped them in three general areas: Capture experiences and thoughts differently, Prompt with Structure, and Enterprise system streaming.

Definitely worth checking out.

We are in the process of designing a new intranet for our office and one of things I want to explore is creating a blog-like view (reverse chronological order) of activities, documents, meetings, etc. so that an employee can capture a history of their work even if they are not a strong writer. This would be in addition to the normal writing of entries. Phil’s stuff provides a lot of possibilities to explore.

I’ll be posting more information here for feedback as we get a design fleshed out.