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  Mark Harrison: "One of the key reasons that the CMS plans are being kept quiet is that CMS is now an important component of Office 12"

Fascinating stuff. I can't wait to see this play out.

The world needs CMS.

Great CMS.

Every single FinePix, iPod and Optura sold just make this need more apparent.

This is what MSN Spaces should be about, this is what Blogware should be about.

Help me manage my stuff, help me share my stuff.

[via Scoble]
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  The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century: "The fine folks at Technorati have made it easier for users of Blogware-based blogs to claim their blogs"

We've been collaborating a fair bit with the folks over at Technorati lately. First, we figured out a way to integrate their global search function into a system-wide Blogware component, and now we've worked out a way to make it easier for Blogware users, nay, most weblog users, to simply and easily claim their weblog in Technorati.

Joey deVilla, Tucows developer relations dude extraordinaire, wrote a great overview of how this works and why its important. For a more technical take, check out the corresponding bit he did over at "The Farm", Tucows developer relations weblog, that goes into the why's and wherefore's of RSD and the other techncail bits.

Personally, I'm pleased as punch at how our relationship with Technorati is working out. They've got a great team over there - but you knew that already, didn't you?
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  grumpOps: "There's no denying that this "blogging" thing is becoming big."

...and getting bigger by the day. 

Personally, I'll be *really* excited about blogging when developers realize that the technology driving this wave can be used in more traditional applications like word processors, email clients, web browsers and in application environments like web hosting, etc.

RSS, Trackbacks, RSD and so on, are extremely underestimated and underused given their potential to radically change and simplify the internet environment. I'm betting hard that this is going to change - and that's when things get really exciting.

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  Om Malik: "Six Apart will become one of the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5 million users."

Big news for everyone involved. Congratulations  to everyone at Six Apart and LJ!
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  Rogers Cadenhead points out that "Sam Ruby has made a tentative change to the Feed Validator, rejecting an RSS 2.0 feed with multiple enclosures per item as invalid."

Technically this means that Blogware is spitting out feeds that may not validate using the Feed Validator. Problem with this is that the spec doesn't prohibit multiple enclosures and that's exactly what we've implemented. The behavior makes sense from a user perspective and I'd like to see the spec updated to allow for this.

Enclosures are just like email attachments and users *expect* to be able to add as many as they want to an entry. I'd really like Tucows to be able to continue to support users with these expectations.

To get an understanding of the other side of the picture, Dave Winer has his view of things over at Scripting News. I'm not sure that I understand his argument. <pubDate> is an attribute of <item> not of  <enclosure>. I understand why this is important to podcasters, but there are other uses for RSS - a state that favors a more liberal interpretation of the spec.

Either way, its time to update the spec. This lack of clarity will only continue to create confusion for the implementors and lead to a bad user experience.

I'm about to release two new prototypes that I expect to be in the hands of roughly 300k users over the next 30 days. All of them will working with RSS2.0 feeds that in various ways expects multiple enclosures. I would love to get some certainty around this point.

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  Technology Futurist: "the existing Blogware system that I am using offers blogmeisters a much richer environment and customization features." C  |  T (39)  |  #
 

BlogJet Wiki: “BlogJetThis”

My blogging life is now officially freaking complete.

Blogjet works with Firefox and Bandit. Dmitry – you rule

Using Blogjet and Qumana on the desktop has almost eliminated the chore of collecting links, posting and sharing.

Its a great time to be a blogger.

Now playing: Mary Hodder - Core Values

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Jevon: "Is ATOM dead? Did RSS innovate ATOM into history with podcasting, weather feeds, photo feeds, and the million other applications that RSS has turned out to be perfect for?"

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