I just finished my Atom 1.0 feed template for Movable Type. I believe it is compliant with the Atom 1.0 specification and my feed validates according to Feed Validator. Movable Type template My Atom 1.0 feed I will not switch my blog’s advertised Atom feed from 0.3 to 1.0 until Bloglines, NetNewsWire, and NewsGator support Atom 1.0 format. Tags: atom10, movabletype…
Category Archives: Software
Movable Type 3.2 is coming
Guess what? There will be a new version of Movable Type sometime in the future. Six Apart will talk about some of the new features in the latest version of their software sometime between now and when it’s released. They are sure you will enjoy the upgrade. Yep, that’s a summary of a real announcement from Six Apart. No big surprise that there is a new version that will contain new features so I’m not really sure the point of the announcement other than admitting the versioning of the next release. Tags: movabletype…
Microsoft announces RSS support in Longhorn
I am currently attending Gnomedex in Seattle where there are many product announcements happening. The big announcement of the morning is Microsoft’s integration of RSS into Longhorn at the platform level. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, admitted Microsoft is “trying to get on the Cluetrain.” Microsoft’s marketing message for its RSS integration is “Browse. Search. Subscribe!” They distributed jackets to all Gnomedex attendees and expect to see this message at PDC in September and other marketing venues. RSS is again being used as a generic term encompassing all feed formats including RDF and Atom. Dean demonstrated Internet…
Flickr adding ranking algorithms within the next month
Stewart Butterfield announced a new Flickr feature at tonight’s Tag Tuesday event. In the next few weeks Flickr will introduce the ability to algorithmically sort photographs using criteria such as the most commented posts, the most popular photo publishers, and the structure of a user’s social network. The new ranking system will allow for the most active pictures surrounding an event to rise to the top of the pile instead of treating an entire tagspace as a chronological flow.Tags: flickr…
del.icio.us tags by file type
Del.icio.us now allows users to browse tags by media types such as MP3 files or MPEG movies. RSS feeds now include enclosures for easy media subscription. The tag “system:media:audio” includes: *.mp3 as “system:filetype:mp3” *.wav as “system:filetype:wav” The tag “system:media:video” includes: *.mpg as “system:filetype:mpg” *.mpeg as “system:filetype:mpeg” *.avi as “system:filetype:avi” *.wmv as “system:filetype:wmv” *.mov as “system:filetype:mov” The tag “system:media:image” includes: *.jpg as “system:filetype:jpg” *.jpeg as “system:filetype:jpeg” *.gif as “system:filetype:gif” *.png as “system:filetype:png” The tag “system:media:document” includes: *.pdf as “system:filetype:pdf” *.doc as “system:filetype:doc”Tags: delicious, tagging…
Macintosh Small Business lunch
I just got back from lunch with about twenty-five Macintosh small business owners and developers visiting San Francisco for this week’s WWDC. We talked for about ninety minutes about common business problems and people shared their experiences with running a small business selling applications for the Macintosh operating system. Some quick notes: If no one complains about your pricing, you priced too low. Higher pricing usually leads to lower support requests. Most software publishers allow users to use trial versions of their software before making a purchase. eSellerate dominates as a payment provider but most developers choose to use…
Gathering and distributing search results as RSS
I often receive questions from people about how search engines gather and distribute subscribed search results such as the results provided by Technorati, Feedster, Blogpulse, PubSub, and MSN or Yahoo! Search. It’s worth a brief explanation. Caveat lector, I work for Technorati but I will try to deliver an impartial view of the world of ping and search while keeping the post relatively brief. All of the aforementioned sites output search results in the RSS 2.0 feed format. Your feed results will differ between services based on what is indexed, how frequently it is indexed, and what content is made…
Google Sitemaps using Movable Type
It’s pretty easy to make an XML Sitemap of your blog for easy parsing by Google or other search engines. Just create a new index template and copy the code below. Choose an output file that is easy to remember such as sitemap.xml. Save and rebuild your new template file once you paste the code. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <urlset xmlns=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84″> <url> <loc><$MTBlogURL encode_xml=”1″$></loc> <priority>1.0</priority> </url> <MTEntries lastn=”9999″> <url> <loc><$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml=”1″$></loc> <lastmod><$MTEntryModifiedDate utc=”1″ format=”%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ”$></lastmod> </url> </MTEntries> </urlset> Now you need to let Google know where to find your sitemap. Open up your web browser and enter http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap= + the URL-encoded location…
Movable Type 3.17 released
Six Apart just released version 3.17 of Movable Type, a minor bug fix upgrade. From the changelog: Nofollow plugin version 1.2 fixes “a bug in the nofollow plugin which causes HTML sanitization of everything within an <MTPings> block.” Finally! The nofollow code is licensed under The Artistic License if anyone wants to tweak and rerelease. mt-db2sql.cgi now has better handling of subcategories. I like the availability of a changed files document to save me time….
Anil Dash in New York Times wearing a goatse shirt
Anil Dash appears in the Thursday, June 2, edition of The New York Times posing in the Six Apart offices wearing a goatse t-shirt. I think it’s in bad taste to appear in a national publication in your employer’s offices while wearing apparel promoting pornography but that’s just me. (via Boing Boing)Tags: goatse…