Alan Nelson of the popular news aggregation blog Command Post has posted a transcript of his recent presentation to the managing editors of many of the Associated Press' most influential subscribers. Listing many of the lessons that print media can learn from weblogs, along with some of the opportunities that exist, it's a great resource.

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Though Microsoft's Partners program is a bit afield of most of what we cover on ProNet, many of the main concepts apply to systems integrators, consultants, and developers who build on blog platforms as well.

One of the latest of their articles, which is available even to those who aren't members of the Microsoft Partner Program, is a piece called Demonstrate Yoru Credibility. In it, Rick Freedman discusses the differences between going in to a client meeting to talk about your credentials and going in to a meeting to actually show your qualifications. It's a good prompt to re-examine some communications techniques that can always use polishing.

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Publisher Tim O'Reilly's company is a big believer in blogs, and it shows in Tim granting an interview to blogger Richard McManus on his Movable Type-powered blog, Read/Write Web. There's a lot of good discussion about web publishing, syndication, and business models, giving a good view of Tim's vision of where the web is headed.

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Popular Gawker Media blog Lifehacker has just announced they're hiring another editor. The Movable Type-powered site for productivity geeks s looking for another blogger to strengthen their team, and if you're a ProNet member, you're probably right in the target demographic.

Also, Lifehacker's sister site in the Gawker stable, Gizmodo, has just launched a redesign. A smart evolution for the gadget blog, it features smart space for display ads and an unusual layout of publisher information in the footer of the page. They're also making extensive use of the Tags plugin for Movable Type to categorize content. The design has come a long way from the original version, which launched back in...

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Chad Everett is interested in building MT-Notifier Comment Integration on top of his award-winning MT-Notifier plugin. If you would find this kind of functionality helpful, go chip in to his Dropcash campaign.

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Stardock, best known for its WindowsBlinds application for theming Windows systems, has officially released Blog Navigator, which lets you easily track XML syndication feeds and is available as a free download. They've also made a Pro version of Blog Navigator available, which lets you easily create posts on your TypePad or Movable Type weblog right from within your feed-reading application.

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Technorati's expanded their web services API with the addition of TagQuery, which lets you retrieve a list of posts which are tagged with a given word.

And of course, if you're looking for an easy way to assign tags to your posts, you can try the TechnoratiTags plugin George Hotelling made.

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MIT's Technology Review magazine publishes the Technology Review TR100 list every year, naming their view of the top innovators under 35. This year, they've named Six Apart's co-founders Ben and Mena Trott to their list of computing innovators, and the description for the category says it all: "Computing is all about creating better connectionswhether between tiny transistors or human beings".

The TR100 story also includes a brief profile explaining how Ben and Mena were chosen.

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The folks over at FeedBurner have just announced a couple of new features as well as their look at where the syndication area is headed. The FeedCount option letting you display your feed's readership on your site is one of the coolest new bits.

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Though we don't link to every review of our products, sometimes we like to pass along ones that are especially in-depth or insightful. The latest is EContent magazine's review of TypePad. The reviewer's summary:

TypePad is a terrific tool to set up a professional-quality blog in just an hour or so. Perfect for individuals or businesses, TypePad requires no Web design or HTML skills. With the WYSIWYG editor, creating a post is as easy as using Microsoft Word. TypePad is what Web-based services are supposed to be: easy-to-use, powerful, professional, cost-effective, and fun. Many services make the claims, TypePad actually delivers.

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A small update to Movable Type today: version 3.12 is out. Faster rebuilds, automatic generation of .htaccess files for dynamic pages, better support for running under mod_perl or on old versions of perl, and a few other little tweaks and fixes make for a useful new version. It's a free update for all licensed users, and should be fairly straightforward to upload on top of your current Movable Type installation.

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One of the best ways to explain the benefits of XML syndication is to list the interesting and new things that can be done with the technology, and Cutting Through has done exactly that. It's a great way to explain the benefits to new users.

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We just got copies of Wiley::Movable Type 3.0 Bible Desktop Edition, the new book on Movable Type from Rogers Cadenhead. It looks to be one of the best books on Movable Type that's been published, including coverage of the application all the way up to version 3.1 and even includes dedicated chapters on creating and using plugins, managing syndication files, and working with the weblog APIs supported by the application.

Congratulations to Rogers on the launch of his book, and be sure to check out the excerpts on the publisher's website.

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I've recently been tossing around some ideas about dynamically creating syndication feeds for the blog. Most specifically I've been trying to figure out how to best keep up with comments on a particular entry. By default, the only solution is to come back and check again later. Even having a new comment list or an entire feed devoted to comments seem to be extreme solutions that wouldn't quite solve the problem.

I read up on the scriptygoddess solution to allow users to subscribe to a comment thread via email. It's a nice solution, but I don't think it's as elegant as I'd like. I don't want to keep an email list on the site. I also get too much email already and would like to cut...

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Dave Winer raises some good questions about the proper way for those who are publishing XML feeds to force unsubscriptions for readers, and Nick Bradbury points out a fairly clean solution that has the advantage of already being implemented in the wild.

Publishers should simply an HTTP Status 410: Gone code, and the aggregator or syndication client will know to do the proper thing and unsubscribe. The next version of Nick's tool FeedDemon is scheduled to add this support.

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LivingDot, popular hosting service and one of our Movable Type Hosting Partners, has just announced the LivingDot TypePad Booster Package. This collection of services lets you add a domain name, email accounts, and additional disk storage to your TypePad account, and they'll even help map your domain name to your TypePad site.

If you (or your clients) are running a high-traffic TypePad site, or are doing a lot of media serving for things like podcasting, it's a great complement to the core TypePad service, and it's as little as an additional $7.95 per month.

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The IETF has just put out its last call, a key milestone on the road to The Atom Syndication Format becoming an official standard.

If you've given the Working Group your feedback on the current draft, you might want to check out Steve Jenson's atomfeed Python library or if you're working in Perl, you might want to check out our own Mark Paschal's Atom::Filter, which makes it easy to manipulate Atom feeds at the command line.

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Last week, Bloglines announced its suite of web services, making it possible for developers to build on top of Bloglines' features and take advantage of their caching of XML feeds. Now, Bloglines has added a forum for supporting developers who are working with the API, as well as sample code in Perl, Ruby, and Python for accessing the new web services.

With so much activity happening around syndication and aggregation web services lately, we should be seeing some interesting applications popping up soon.

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Among the expected features of a weblogging content management system (hosted locally on your server, template driven, highly-configurable, permalinks...), the first release of MOVABLE TYPE will have incorporated these added features. • Extensible, library-driven code. • Multiple output templates to enable one-click publishing to multiple destinations. • Entry categorization and grouping. • Built-in support for RSS syndication. • Custom variable and template inclusion, for encapsulation of commonly used HTML. • Support for multiple weblogs/journals. • Multiple archiving options: daily/weekly/monthly/categorical, or each entry on its own individual page. • Comment system, either inline or in...

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