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Curiouser and Curiouser! on blogging-tools http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic blogging-tools Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Getting Real with Stowe Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:46:17 +0100 Had a first chat with <a href="http://www.corante.com/getreal/">Stowe Boyd</a> this evening.  Enjoyed it very much despite some troubles with Skype (poor voice quality in one direction or another at various points) which we augmented with IM.  We talked about <a href="http://www.evectors.com/itkcollector/">K-Collector</a>, IRC, Wiki, Sense making, Cynefin, social tools and how KM is suffering from fatigue.  Thanks Stowe! http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002085.html Time to switch? Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:00:51 +0100 I hate having to use a non-WYSIWYG editor to write blog posts and yet I really hate the WYSIWYG editor in <a href="http://radio.userland.com/">Radio</a> For one thing in Mozilla I don't get an editing caret which is annoying enough.  But it also has no button for doing <blockquote> (it's not the same as indenting which is done via a styled section) and forces me to use the HTML view which is bad enough but there the cursor often ends up out of sequence with the editing position so you have no idea what's going to happen next.  Finally it cannot handle Radio's <% %> macro delimeters (would that there was another choice of delimiter avaiable but alas that will never happen...) Having been exposed to other blogging tools recently, most notably <a href="http://blog.blogware.com/blog">Blogware</a>, I find myself more and more wanting to trade in Radio for something a bit more modern, more stable, better featured.  I've been using Radio for 2 years and it has basically stood still in that time.  Enough is enough. Not wishing to throw out the baby with the bathwater I'd like an application that builds on what I see as Radio's strengths.  It's not essential but I'd prefer a desktop application. I like the built in newsreader (Radio's reader is still my choice).  I like the upstreaming (if not <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/2004/01/17.html#a1292">Radio's implementation</a> of it)  I like the ability to hack scripts locally but I want a more regular, popular and powerful language than <a href="http://docserver.userland.com/">Usertalk</a> to do it (I no longer willingly grok <a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a> though).  Also, and this is critical, I want a tool which is being developed and where bugs either are, or can be, fixed. Is all this too much too ask?  Any recommendations? http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002095.html Blogger me no blogs Mon, 10 May 2004 14:11:43 +0100 <blockquote><a href="http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/10/54957.html">Pretty templates do not an update make</a>. As reported by <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/10/blogger_redesign_not.html">Boing Boing</a> and the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3694691.stm%20">BBC</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a> has updated its service and user interface. But not very much. [<a href="http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog">Chocolate and Vodka</a>] </blockquote>Uber-Polymath Suw lays into Blogger and, by the sounds of it, deservedly so. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002221.html Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium in London Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:24:14 +0100 Now that we have the agenda sorted I am happy to announce the 1st, London, <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/lon/LON_Summer_2004.htm"> Social Tools for Enterprises Symposium</a> </div> which <a href="http://www.evectors.com/">Evectors</a> is organising ably supported by <a href="http://www.kmcluster.com/">KM Cluster</a> and a group of the usual suspects (see the <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stes/">Wiki</a> for details). We think this is a great opportunity to start showing people that social tools (both people tools and software tools) are ready for prime time and deliver bottom line benefits to enterprises. The event will be held on Monday 12th July at the <a href="http://www.bloomsburysquare.co.uk/intro/index.html">Bloomsbury Square Training Centre</a>. We've got a great list of people leading sessions which we hope will be a bit different to the usual chalk & talk conference fare. We really want a conversation to emerge from this event which will help to enlighten people interested in social tools but unsure how to put them to best use in their own contexts. So we have: <ul> <li>Stowe Boyd - <a href="http://www.corante.com/about/research.shtml">Corante Research</a> & <a href="http://stoweboyd.typepad.com/awm/">A Working Model</a></li> <li>Lee Bryant - <a href="http://www.headshift.com/">Headshift</a></li> <li>Prof. Marc Eisenstadt - <a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/home-f.cfm">Knowledge Media Institue</a></li> <li>David Gurteen - <a href="http://www.gurteen.com/">Gurteen Knowledge</a></li> <li>Euan Semple - <a href="http://www.bbc.com/">BBC</a></li> <li>Phil Wolff. - <a href="http://www.dijest.com/aka/">A Klog Apart</a> & <a href="http://blogcount.com/">BlogCount</a></li> </ul><a href="http://paolo.evectors.it/">Paolo</a> and I will also be there. I think it has the potential to be a great event and a great day I hope that you will come and join us. Please tell all your friends! http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002289.html Curiouser and Curiouser on Rails! Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:45:47 +0000 Okay the weblog is back in action, no longer being published using Radio but now using <a href=\"http://rubyforge.org/projects/squib/\">Squib</a> which is my new open source weblog tool. It's heavily influenced by my 3 years of using Radio: like Radio, Squib is an application that runs on your computer and publishes a weblog to a remote server as a static set of pages (it talks to the Radio Community Server using the RCS upstreaming protocol). Unlike Radio, Squib is written in pure Ruby using the Rails framework and currently clocks in at around 1,000 lines total.Right now it's in pretty rough shape and probably only usable by someone desparate to escape Radio (let's say maybe your copy of Radio kept upstreaming 0-length files) but wanting to keep compatibility with an existing Radio weblog (same permalinks, etc...)Over the next couple of weeks I aim to fix the gaping holes. Source should be available from RubyForge any day now. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00003079.html