Monthly Archives: June 2005

Table PC RSS Feeds

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I’ve been wanting to post this for some time now, but didn’t have my
nifty tool to make the post.  Now that I’ve completed my
Radio-to-Atom posting tool, I can get things in gear on getting
information out on this blog.

This was a comment by Scoble about some new sources of Tablet PC information via RSS … some good feeds.

Chris does Tablet PC newsgroup RSS feeds.

Chris De Herrera has built RSS feeds for the Tablet PC newsgroups. That’s cool. Now I can watch what people in those newsgroups are saying in my aggregator.

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

The first post with my RadioAtomBridge tool

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Well … I appreciate everyone tolerating my flurry of test posts
tonight.  I am close to having completed my tool that allows me to
now post from Radio Userland
to my Blogger.com and Blogspot.com weblogs. 
This tool installs into Radio, and allows me to write off-line and then
post to my weblogs using the Atom API web services.

This post will tell me if I have it figured out.  It’s not perfect
… there is still one thing that I have to resolve, but it ought to be
functional for now!

Thanks again …

More Radio Hacking

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I am still doing some experimentation with Radio Userland
after my success
last night.  I know … a lot of people don’t understand what the
big deal is … but this is more research that I am doing into the
future of blogging, and various blogging tools.

For a long time I have been looking at how to create the ultimate
blogging tool … a way to be able to post to numerous blogs – both
public and private – easily from one tool.  I’m now getting closer
to the model that I want … and will then be able to see which
implementation wins.

This post is actually a test of some other minor changes (damage?) that
I made to Radio this morning … I talked with Steve Kirks at Userland
and he gave me some very good tips.

Posting to Blogger/Blogspot using the Atom API

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Ok … I was able to get my first “test” post through late last night
… well … early this morning.  I now have a basic framework of
code for Radio that is able to post to Blogger.com or Blogspot.com using the Atom API.  Woo hoo!

I do not yet have this completed for redistribution … but soon
will.  I was able to do this by creating hacked copies of Dave
Winer’s blogger.newPost methods, and creating a blogger.newAtomPost
method.  I did one quick test post, and then headed to bed. 
There are a couple of bugs that I have to work out, and then I was to
see if I can hack this into the #upstream.xml
file processing.  I’d like to simply be able to put a line in the
#upstream.xml file that indicates that I want to upstream using the
Atom API.

If not, then I’ll still end up creating a seperate tool that will be a fork of the xManilaBloggerBridge
tool written by Steve Hooker.  Fun stuff … I’m glad that I took
the time to write this … it was a good learning experience.

P.S. For anyone who wants to use the xManilaBloggerBridge tool with
Radio and Blogger, I found that there are two core changes to get this
working … I had to search for “metaWeblog.” and comment out the calls
to these methods, and then look right next to them and un-comment the
“blogger.” methods.  Once I had done this, the basic Blogger API
stuff started to work just fine.  There is not support for
‘titles’ in the Blogger API though … this is why I pursued the Atom
API support.

Posting to Blogspot using Radio

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I am trying to get my blogging tool – Radio – to post to Blogspot …
and I think that I just got it working.  I’m going to do some
experimentation over the next few days, but this first test
worked.  I was able to get a tool called the xManilaBlogger
Bridge, and then hack the code to get it to use the Bloggr API.

At some point in the future I’ll be modifying the code to see if I am
get this same tool using the Atom API … this will allow me to add
titles, etc.

Cool … this will make it so much easier to keep my Tablet PC Thoughts blog going …

A good anti-phishing solution

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I really liked the idea behind this solution being developed by Bank of America for anti-phishing. 
It’s really the simplicity that I like.  In short, it allows a
bank of America customer to customize the web page for their on-line
services … with a picture of image of their choice.  So now,
when a customer goes to log into the Bank of America site, they can
verify that the image is the one that they picked!

I know that there is still the general phishing scam that can be sent
out indicating that “Oh yeah … we had big problems with your server,
and your image can not be shown!” … or “Uh … we lost your image,
please log in and set your image again!” … but this is a very good
start.

The idea of customizing the page … to maybe even allow the customer
to choose among different types of customization … will allow users
to easily notice the differences in the web site, and then identify
potential phishing scams.

Simple … and a good start.