Re: Blogger

from Joseph Reagle <[email protected]>, Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:28:02 -0400

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At 22:04 8/27/2000 -0400, Hugo Haas wrote:
>The part that I don't understand is how this company makes money: the
>only thing they ask from their users is a link back to [1].

I'm not sure about that either, I always assumed banners. [1]

>Does anybody have some experience with such tools?

They are very handy/easy. Some are quite cool and permit others to comment
on your entry: the first widely deployed and usable Web annotation I've seen.

>What is interesting is that all those people seem read each other's
>weblogs

Such an odd little ego stroke. [2]

>, are organized into webrings, etc. It seems to be trendy to have
>a diary:

Very trendy. [3]

[1] http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/1999/05/28/weblogs/index.html
[2] http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003b8P
[3] http://goatee.net/2000/07#_21fr
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Re: Blogger

from Hugo Haas <[email protected]>, Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:59:30 -0400

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2000, Joseph Reagle wrote:
> >, are organized into webrings, etc. It seems to be trendy to have
> >a diary:
>
> Very trendy. [3]

I actually found another type of Web logger that people from W3C seem to
like (at least Dan Connolly, Daniel Veillard and Gerald): Advogato[1].

Apparently, in this one, you seem to upload your comments to the server,
which that you can potentially lose them if the owner of Advogato
suddenly decides to shut the service down. Plus I wouldn't be
comfortable in using a tool which generates invalid HTML[2]. :-)

It doesn't seem very hard to me to do something like that actually. The
data could be stored in XML, a small script would add entries in XML
format and an XSL stylesheet would generate the output.

1. http://www.advogato.org/
2. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.advogato.org/person/DV/

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