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

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

> Hmmm, I guess I mis-stated my position. I (and others) live behind a
> corporate firewall. I'm running Nucleus2.0 on a Linux server that lives
> under my desk and publishing my blog on our intranet. Sure, we have
> internet access, but no linkbacks, no trackbacks, no pingbacks, etc. The
> only thing that is visible outside the firewall is the IP address of the
> firewall. So, an additional challenge is to try to figure out how many
> blogs are in fact hidden behind corporate firewalls.

Sort of like the proverbial bear making their noises in the woods.
If a blog lives behind a corporate firewall does anyone hear it ping?

I doubt there's a real solution to this using extant blogging tools.  There'd
have to be a front-end on the firewall acting as some sort of gateway or proxy
back to the original items.   This would likewise require a pretty big leap in
corporate IT 'understanding' of the technologies involved.  Not to mention
higher up in management.  "You want to let individual users make public links
back into the corporate network?"  You can imagine the reception /that/ idea
would get...

Although, some sort of way to do this in a controlled fashion might actually be
sort of worthwhile.  An internal user would have to 'request' a trackback.  That
link would get brought to life on the corporate portal interface to the public
Internet.  Depending on inbound traffic the portal might or might not decide to
allow 'access' to the content involved.  As in, give the internal users a way to
make such a link but only enliven the link based on approval within the chain of
command.  The extenal access to an 'unapproved' link would thus have to be some
sort of 'polite' way of saying the target site is not yet available or only to
select user communities.

This goes against the grain of a 'wide open internet' of course, but there's a
set of realities in organizational life that must be reckoned with.  Like it or
not, stupid or not, that's the way many organizations work.  It'd be better to
effect change from within instead of outright assaults on it.

-Bill