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After reading Robin Cook's article on XML-RPC Pings, it really hits home as to one reason blogs has spread like wildfire.  The viral nature of blogs takes the intent of links on the traditional Internet to the next level....

Read more in his article at: Increase Visibility in Blog and RSS Directories: XML-RPC Pings

Originally posted 2004-11-25 12:20:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

David Berlind at Tech News writes up an amazing article on RSS: What's wrong with RSS is also what's right with it |  ZDNet.

From Tech News: "RSS is, after all, today's poster child of what XML can do for the masses. It's also the closest that most people have come to working with XML. Given RSS' momentum, it could very well turn into the primary method by which all data (structured or unstructured) gets pumped -- regardless of whether the application is just to stay abreast of Weblogs, to retrieve e-mail"...[read more]

Originally posted 2004-12-08 10:45:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

A fairly technical article on REST by Mike Dierken.

Link: XML.com: Weblogs, Publish-Subscribe, and Web Collections: A REST Analysis.

Excerpt from XML.com:
"Recently, I've started looking at what
PubSub
is doing--its recent performance numbers
sound intriguing (something like 2.4 million
"matches" per second).  There are other great
blog-based services such as
Feedster,
Technorati,
and, of course,
Blogdex.  In
order to understand what these services have
in common, I've tried to apply REST
architectural concepts--specifically,
resource modeling--to PubSub,
SearchAlert, Feedster, and Google alerts"...[read more]

Owen Winkler has a now famous chart he created when he had to choose some new blogging software:

1. Owen Winkler's Blog - Asymptomatic
2. His Blogware Choice and how he decided: An excerpt: "I did not include tools like Blogger or TypePad because you don’t install those packages yourself. Why not? Because I am interested in modifying the code in my installation to do exactly what I want, not what Google or Six Apart thinks is best for me"...[read more]
3. Finally Owen's famous chart which he updates on a regular basis and is a good starting place for any user just starting their journey into world of blogging software. The chart includes features such as version numbers, minimum server requirements, template data and log information. Everything the blog doctor ordered!