Re: [syndication] Archival RSS: Toward Weblog Portability

[Jeremy Zawodny <Jeremy@Zawodny.com>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:41:43PM -0000, Phil Wolff wrote:
> 
> Doc Searls points to Tiernan Ray of eCommerce Times in Wireless 
> Newsfactor: Why Blogs Haven't Stormed the Business World [1]. Ray 
> says portability between blogging tools is a hangup. I agree. 
> 
> [1] http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/21389.html

I don't buy it.

I'm not intimately familiar with all the blogging tools out there,
but that article paints a pretty grim picture of the current "state of
the art" in blogging.  Complains about style changes and file
structures don't make any sense to me.  MoveableType, for example uses
the flat files as an *output* format but the real data it stored in
Berkeley DB or MySQL.

I have to think that other tools are doing similar things.  Or do the
others just use flat files with ad-hoc meta-data storage that isn't
easily queried externally?

It's not like portability means parsing HTML to extract the content
from the markup and navigation links.  If I wanted to move my content
to another system, I'd go to the *source* of the data--either export
it from MT or go to MySQL/BDB directly.

Maybe I'm missing something, but blogging hasn't stormed the business
world because of *cultural* and *organizational* limitations, not
technical ones.

Jeremy
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