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The release of Movable Type 3.1 is currently scheduled for August 31: Dynamic PHP publishing, controllable on a per-template basis: You can control whether you publish a dynamic or static page on a per-template basis, letting you balance the publishing and traffic for your weblog. For example, high-demand documents like XML syndication files can be…

Zacker has married AOL instant messenger to his blog’s comments AIM Comments (using, I assume CivicSpace or perhaps the main Drupal trunk?). I need a category like “interop” or “convergence” or maybe just “features”

While I’ve had my eye on Technorati and Kinja and Bloglines, Feedster has been hatching big plans: Micro Persuasion: Feedster to Launch New Way to View Blogs

Ben Franske is surveying the blog-software landscape. (Note: I’ve been on a bit of a web hiatus for the last week or so, since my book just shipped to the printer and I’ve needed to catch up on rest, exercise, bills, mail, email, and so on. I should be back in the saddle more completely…

WordPress 1.2 is out. What I wouldn’t give for comment moderation! (via Scripting News)

Chris Pirillo has launched a bogging network at Lockergnome.net. Looks like a private-label instance of Tucows’ Blogware oroduct. Looks like Chris has moved his personal blog from MT over to Blogware as well (though there’s no credit back-link, so you have to divine that fact by actually reading his entries).

If you are deciding whether to upgrade to MT 3.0 or switch to another self-hosted service, the Blog Software Breakdown chart might help you sort out your decision.

link relationships <link rel=””> XFN votelinks creative commons (rel=”license”) filtering sorting expressions in the queries if then and or not recentness, authority Tantek: sort by criteria Use link relationships strength of relationship friends acquaintances people i’ve met show me links from people that consider themselves colleagues wikis and email lists profiles multiple authors per blog…

Blogger vs LiveJournal: markpasc.org Looks like Blogger has matched LJ feature-for-feature, crabwalking into social networking at the same time (around the shared interests – I’d love to see Google’s internal maps drawn from that data).

Weblogs Compendium – Blog Tools (via evanwolf group). I’ve got my test deployment of Scoop running. As soon as my book is put to bed I will start messing with it, but I’m really holding out for a groovy MT-to-RDF-to-Ftrain SiteKit migration tool. Ping lazyweb, somebody.

Do MT alpha testers automatically become beta tester’s in Six Apart’s upcoming beta test of Movable Type 3.0? Shouldn’t that link really have been to movable type dot org? Aren’t I supposed to be handing in Chapters 3, 5, and 6 in various states of undress tonight? Thank goodness my editor, Pete, has been doing…

If you integrate Textpattern* with VoodooPad, I will babysit your soufflés. *which is already secretly a brilliant flexible database interface that uses the “list” metaphor that anyone with fingers can get…

This week has been a trip. For example, last night the Dean rally at the hotel was so packed (it was like a Dead show in about six different ways – someone please remind me to explain this at another time) that I ended up retreating to the hallway and playing with my camera and…

So close, and yet so far. The install.pl script for Scoop is pretty dang amazing. Here’s what apachectl says when I ask it to do configtest: PerlSetVar takes two arguments, Perl config var and value Whuzza? UPDATE: OK, that was dumb. If I’d followed the instructions I could have avoided the above error. Thanks to…

Matthey “Doubting” Thomas offers

Dave Winer is planning BloggerCon II and is soliciting ideas from blog users (as opposed to developers) about what features the next generation of blogging tools should offer.

90% Crud: TidyText: TidyText is my new plugin for Moveable Type…. It adds two new text formatting options for entries that will run them through HTML Tidy to make the XHTML valid before building the entry. Most of us want to support web standards, for me it’s a pain to remember to change & to…

An orkut message I received from a “friend” of jibot (a bot that heralds visitors to the #joiito irc channel) accuses Brazilian company Globo of blocking access to the Blogger-driven blogs it hosts to anyone from outside Brazil and of preventing users from accessing their (free) blogs until they pay for a Globo subscription: Isn’t…

Christoph Cemper has written up the results of his recent efforts at performance-tuning Movable Type. The upshot? rebuilding category archives works from the browser again – no premature end of script (internal server error 500) problems anymore (was a timeout before actually) saving disk space for having only 1 large category-common file per category and…

Looks like the upcoming version of Drupal with have some significant improvements: The Drupal developers have been little busy bees ever since the new development branch has been created about 1.5 months ago. Those that do not track the CVS commit messages or read the mailing lists might wonder what we have been up to,…