Blogging RollerDave Johnson on blogging, open source and JavaNew Atom protocol spec draft and Queen City planets- December 27, 2006 Joe Gregorio announces a new Atom Publishing Protocol Spec (draft 12) and he says it might end up being the final. I guess it's time for a new Blogapps release with APP draft 12 and ROME 0.9 support.Plus, Joe has put together a set of new planet sites for towns in the Charlotte, NC area; all based on feeds from Google Base, Google Blogs, Google News, Craigs List, Flickr and the Weather Service. The sites look useful, but the ads combined with the minimalist design make them look a little spammy.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/new_atom_spec_and_queen Roller-Planet mind map- December 23, 2006 I'm glad I was able to help Simon get his personal planet back online yesterday. And I'm glad the task was fairly easy. All Simon needed as a new version of Blogapps PlanetTool updated to use ROME 0.9 and I was planning on doing that anyway. What's PlanetTool you wonder PlanetTool is a command-line program which reads a set of RSSAtom newsfeeds and then uses a set of templates to generate a planet site with HTML, RSS, Atom, OPML and other representations. Simon uses it to bring together his...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/planet_in_a_mind_map Raleigh blogger meetup tomorrow at Helios Coffee- December 5, 2006 In the past we've had up to ten attendees. A US congressman, an actual female and once even Sam Ruby showed up, but since Cafe Cyclo shutdown and we moved to Helios it's been just Josh and I. That's fine and all, Josh's a great guy, but we'd really dig some company. So come on down and entertain us with stories of your fascinating blog-related legal troubles, sinister government conspiracies you've exposed via podcast, that band you saw last night or maybe just the time you forgot the HTML tag.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/raleigh_blogger_meetup_tomorrow_at |