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Blosxom 2.0 Beta 2 Available

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:01:18 GMT

via raelity bytes: "As promised, I've wrapped up another bundle of Blosxom joy this weekend... Blosxom 2.0 beta *2*. For a complete list of changes since beta 1, read my posting to blosxom@yahoogroups." The Blosxom community is "busting loose"! The ideas are flowing and there is some great synergy happening.

Blosxom Rolls Out Plugin Support

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 00:56:51 GMT

Blosxom 2.0 beta is on the loose. You can pick it up here. Plug-ins are the enhancement being featured in this round of coding from Rael. Rael also provides us with the first round of docs. And Joey Gibson appears to already have a nice little Google Plugin for our searching pleasure. What a great group of Blog Dev Heads. ;-)

New Round of Beta Testing Begins for NetNewsWire Pro

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:35:07 GMT

via ranchero.com: "This release (1.0b19) fixes various bugs, including bugs related to saving drafts. See the change notes for more details. - At this point we're looking for deal-stopper bugs only." Mac OS X webloggers; if you haven't done so already, take a look at NetNewWire. You will find a wonderful tool that will make your life much more productive.

Another New Open Solution from UserLand

Sat, 17 Aug 2002 18:00:15 GMT

TCP.IM is another new open solution offered by the folks from UserLand. It works with Radio and Frontier.

Monitoring Radio Comments

Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:12:24 GMT

via Phil's Python Community Server: Monitor Radio blog comments with ease.

"If, like me, you have trouble keeping track of when people add comments to your Radio blog, you need to check this out:

Radio Comment Monitor

It's a PHP script I hacked up to generate summary pages from the JavaScript that Radio weblogs use to determine the comment counts. You get a list of comment counts in reverse time order, and the URL includes the number of comments so the links will go blue when a new comment gets posted (as long as everything is still in your browser cache.

Examples: this blog; my Salon blog.

It works with pycs.net as well as radio.weblogs.com and blogs.salon.com. If anyone knows of any other comment servers they'd like to include, drop me a line and I'll have a go at them.

Note: It doesn't appear to work in Mozilla or Opera yet - are there any JS hackers out there who could tell me why?"

I have to second Phil's request; Can someone help out with the Mozilla connection?

Rael Enhances Blosxom

Wed, 03 Jul 2002 02:07:28 GMT

Something is going on behind Rael's curtain. Blosxom 0+5i is fast approaching. Rael provides us this insight: " Blosxom 0+5i: Flavours
The forthcoming 0+5i release of Blosxom enables you, the blogger, to define your own output flavours (read: templates, although I've never much cared for the word) beyond the default HTML and RSS output formats -- and it goes without saying that you can change those two too. For example, take a peek at an outline view of my weblog. I'm making use of Marc Barrot's excellent Javascript outliner functions, as featured on his weblog, slam".

New Version of Movable Type Released

Wed, 03 Jul 2002 01:46:24 GMT

Ben and Mena Trott has delivered version 2.21 of Movable Type, possibly the best server-based blogging tool in blogLand. Trackback is a neat feature that allows collaboration between blogs. It is really worth checking out.