Blogging RollerDave Johnson on blogging, open source and JavaScience blogger without a blog- January 26, 2007 Speaking of science writing and making more science accessible to lay people, check out my Dad's article at Luminous Landscape where he explains Why Is My 50mm Lens Equivalent to 80mm on a 35mm Camera and Why Is There More Depth-of-Field And check out the comment he received: Nathan Myhrvold: I think that Charles Johnsons article on DOF and sensor issues is excellent and will inform the discussion of the relative merits of various sensors and cameras. It covers the basic optical facts very...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/science_blogger_without_a_blog Science blogging- January 26, 2007 When I'm under deadline pressure of any sort, I tend to stop blogging. That's the case this week. It's already Thursday and haven't written about the NC Science Blogging conference that I attended in Chapel Hill last weekend. Gotta fix that. The NC Science Blogging conference was put together by the BlogTogether crew, the same group of Chapel Hill bloggers that organized PodcasterCon last year and BloggerCon the year before - Bora Zivkovic, Anton Zuiker, Brian Russell and others. Again they...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/science_blogging IBM listened- January 18, 2007 Don "father of WebSphere" Ferguson left IBM for Microsoft, IBM deleted his developerWorks blog and bloggers started to sound the alarm (see below). IBM listened and quickly restored Don's old blog. And so we've learned another rule of business blogging: when one of your valued employee bloggers leaves the company -- leave their blog in place. Or better yet, do what Sun does and provide a planet-style blog aggregator to keep in touch with your former employees (see...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/ibm_listened Raleigh blogger meetup -Tuesday at Helios, 6:30pm- January 16, 2007 It's time for the first Raleigh Bloggers meetup of the new year.About Us. We are a group of bloggers who live in and around Raleigh, North Carolina. We meet twice a month at a local coffee shop just to chat. We have no formal agenda. Sometimes we talk about blogging, sometimes podcasting, sometimes technology, sometimes politics, ... mostly whatever's on our minds. We've been meeting regularly since March of 2005. Join Us! New faces are always welcome, whether you're a professional blogger, a.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/raleigh_blogger_meetup_tuesday_at Akismet works- January 10, 2007 Since I deployed Roller 3.2-dev Saturday no spam has slipped pass Roller's new Akismet plugin, so I've opened up all my past entries for comments again. Spammers, bring it on!http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/akismet_works Akismet support for Roller- January 7, 2007 This week I've been working on a new feature for Roller called Comment Validators, which makes it possible for Roller site admins to plugin validation rules to be run against comments. If a comment fails validation it is marked as spam, put into the blog's moderation queue and the blog's owner is notified with a list of the reasons that validation failed.I commited the work to SVN yesterday, so now we've got an excess-size validator that checks for comments larger than a threshold, an excess...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/akismet_support_for_roller The Corporate Blogging Show- January 3, 2007 Six Apart's Anil Dash was interviewed on The Corporate Blogging Show, which is the Voice America show associated with the blog associated with the book. It's worth a listen if you're interested in corporate blogging or what's going on with SixApart, the company behind Movable Type, LiveJournal, Typepad and Vox.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/the_corporate_blogging_show Placeblogger- January 3, 2007 Placeblogger is a new blog and aggregation site that's all about local blogging from Lisa Williams and friends. It's powered by Bryte, which is based on the Drupal content management system and offers blogs, feed aggregations, photo galleries and polls. You can help build the database by submitting your favorite place blogs. The database supports a number of different "blog types." You can add aggregations, so Joe's local planets would be suitable, and you can add community sites so...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/placeblogger Dear Digg.com, please fix your MetaWeblog API support- January 2, 2007 Dear Digg.com,I'm one of the developers of the Apache Roller (incubating) software used by Sun and IBM and others for employee blogging. Our users want to be able to post via Digg.com, but your MetaWeblog API support is lacking.Roller is not one of the blog servers listed in the Digg Profile area, so we have to use the "manual setup" option, but in manual setup option, you give users the abilty to set only:- username- password- blog URL- Metaweblog API URLThat won't work. Each of our..http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/dear_digg_please_fix_your Rich Burridge's blog-to-book blogapp- January 2, 2007 Rich has put together a interesting blogapp that pulls all entries from a blog and turns them into a book, using either cups2pdf or OpenOffice.org Writer. I had the same idea when I was writing RSS and Atom in Action, but I was going to go the DocBook route and eventually dropped the idea because DocBook seemed a bit too complex.I don't think Rich's work is Roller-specific. Rich used Grabber to get the entries out of Roller and into simple HTML files, so the approach should work with other blog.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/rich_burridge_s_blog_to |