Q: When is a blog not a blog?
A: When it’s an RSS feed.
I’ve pondered the relationship between weblog and RSS before, and in an Old Speckled Hen-induced philosophical state of mind, have decided for experimental purposes that for all URI intents and purposes they are one and the same.
With that in mind, my thoughts turned [...]
Tim Appnel recently created TikiText, a Wiki-like markup language for which Rael recently created a Blosxom plugin. While theoretically interesting, I wasn’t sure how I’d get to know and be able to practise the new markup, as support for it exists currently only in an experimental Perl module to parse and format text that [...]
My favourite blogging software just got better.
Congratulations to Rael in releasing the plugin-enabled 2.0 Beta1 of Blosxom. I dropped it into my cgi-bin directory, tweaked a few things, and it worked like a dream.
One of the plugins available already is RSS 1.0 plugin, which I’m now using to generate RSS 1.0 - see the Syndication [...]
Prompted by a post on the re-awakened WriteTheWeb, I made a small mod to Blagg so that more detailed information is sent in the User-Agent header - announcing that the RSS aggregator ‘blagg’ is the agent requesting the RSS feed.
Following it’s sibling Blosxom’s philosophy of simplicity and reuse of existing tools, Blagg uses ‘wget’ (or [...]