Re: [syndication] Automatically Transforming Blog or HTML Content into XML

[elijah wright <elw@stderr.org>]

> >  A journal does this, so does a diary, so does a portal, likewise a
> > full-on CMS like Vignette /can/ also do this.  Now, /do/ they?  Ah,
> > not all do.
>
> Don't forget the killer VoAL (vi on Apache and Linux) one-two-three
> punch.

rofl :)  that's a favorite of mine....

> I guess what I'm saying is that I tend to agree that there's not a lot
> of value in defining what a blog is - from a tools perspective. I
> suspect that there's a lot more fun to be had trying to understand how
> users interact with the tools and what the implications of that
> behaviour is.

... which is hard to do without terminology that you can pin down and then
debate/talk about.  "what is a blog" is one of those damnable questions
that REFUSES TO DIE in debate - if one person is a little fuzzier than
others on what they think one is, that person tends to "lose" in
discussions.  and that really, really, really sucks.

elijah