From: InfoWorld: “A blog is a good delivery format for corporate intelligence data because “it
summarizes important points and puts the information into a system that archives
it as well” (via ScriptingNews)

Clay, “It’s worth trying, though, because the potential win is so large.”

William Gibson has a blog via blogger

sbraford over at Popdex added a LazyWeb post about looking for a way to index Blog content.

I was thinking that perhaps a way to accomplish this would be to upstream rss feeds into Usenet newsgroups, which then get distributed via NNTP to servers around the world.

I believe the RSS / NNTP convergence is already happening with the likes of nntp//rss and Genecast.

As for historical archiving and searching, Google Groups is ideally suited for this purpose.

I received a cool script from Sanjay, which graphs what time of day my blog posts were made for the past 30 days.

Thanks Sanjay!

I just added a Google related links query to individual post on hatch.org (If you’re viewing this as an individual post you should see it below the weblog related links. If not, just click on the title of this post).

It was fairly easy to implement, thanks to Sebastian Bergmann PHP Google SOAP class, which provides an interface to Google’s Web Services API. The class also requires PEAR::SOAP package, which puts it all together.

From Cringely’s 2003 predictions: “And finally, with the continued (and to me totally inexplicable) rise of web logs, someone — maybe Google — will come up with an effective blog search engine to read all that junk for us and extract what we really care about. ”

I would have to agree that “an effective blog search engine” doesn’t necessarily exist yet. Yeah, Yeah, there’s Blogdex, Daypop, etc … and of course the feed aggregators, but perhaps we need something more like Google News, but hive based like Technorati’s Watchlists.

Ben Hammersly creates the fodder feed for the LazyWeb, which IMHO is one of those clever “windshield wiper” ideas that once you see it you’re think, “Man! it’s so obvious, why didn’t someone implement this sooner!” Very ingenious! I hope to contribute!

Sweet! I just configured jpcache to cache and gzip compiled pages on hatch.org. So the b2 powered blog should feel snappier. I need to work out a few of the kinks with respect to expiring the cache when there are new posts and/or comments. Plus, I had to trap the gzip compression function in b2, because jpcache does it as well, but for the most part it seems to be working well.

Well, I’m happy to see that (so far) the Blogger API 2.0 now supports Titles and Categories. However, I suppose this is also the case with the MetaWeblog API via the struct element. Hmm …