Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Best (so far) directory of blog software

Blog Software Breakdown

Why doesn't anyone put dates on anything any more? Still, this is pretty neat.

ONE/Northwest KnowledgeBase: Offline blogging tools - Zempt and SharpMT for Movable Type

ONE/Northwest KnowledgeBase: Offline blogging tools

First of all, this is an interesting knowledge resource. Secondly Blogger holds up rather well in terms of the simplicity/functionality wars. Thirdly, the blogging/RSS/syndication world is still very raw.

Update: Sigh. Really dated.

ecto blog

ecto blog

At the moment probably the most popular OS X client. I think NetNewsWire is moving into this space.

Weblogs Compendium - Blog Tools

Weblogs Compendium - Blog Tools
Omits Plone.

Weblog tools (owned server): Plone and School Content Management Systems

Webloggy Websites for Schools - Plone

Google rules: RSS feeds for email activity

Micro Persuasion: Gmail Adds Atom Feeds
Gmail has added Atom web feeds, a format that's akin to RSS. The feeds include a summary of each new message in your Google email. See screen grabs. In addition, the service rolled out a more robust contact interface that nicely lists all your contacts the related messages that live in your archive as well as the ability to forward your messages to any other email account.

We don't need a messaging client. We need an activity client that tracks activities across web sites, email, phone mail, etc. It needs notification rules and escalation rules, automated responses, metadata generation ...

Monday, October 04, 2004

BugMeNot - bypassing site registration

BugMeNot.com

Subverting registration policies. Good topic for an ethics debate. The Firefox extension no longer works, but one can get login data from this site.