As soon as I had made my entry regarding Slurlblogging, I noticed a post on Second Life Insider mentioning BlogHUD - an attractive device allowing wearers to post slurled posts to a central blog. (A “slurled” thing here indicates a piece of information produced from the Grid and tagged with the location of its production - the equivalent of geotagged.)
This is an interesting service and looks far nicer than my hacked-together effort - really, Ordinal, affixing a texture to a plywood cube is not presentation - but performs a different service. BlogHUD works via a central site and allows many people to post to one blog. I am interested more in allowing many people to post to their own Journals, wherever they are.
Ideally I would like to have a device which allows automatic posting to Journals of all stripes. This is something of a long-term project however, as many are very different. From what I can see, there are two main protocols to crack - Blogger and Movable Type. These should allow one to post to Journals on Blogger, Movable Type (including Typepad), Wordpress, and many others, as many systems support these two. This should not be an insurmountable issue at all; such things as Lev Kamenev’s Blogger gadget already exist, it is mostly a question of getting one’s act together to actually sit down and do the work. It may be complicated by the fact that there are three different versions of posting to Blogger - original, Atom and Google - though while the first two are deprecated or soon to be deprecated, this does not mean that they cannot be used.
I have written a simple script which posts to Livejournal, the interface itself being rather simple, but an issue here is that not that many people actually use Livejournal.
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August 25, 2006 at 3:04 pm
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August 21, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Nicholas Shaftoe
I would love to see this for WordPress, which seems easy since it has email posting. Including a SLURL would be tremendous.
August 21, 2006 at 3:28 pm
ordinal.malaprop
With the existing Slurlblogger one can just set the email address to be the one used for email posting, but unfortunately LSL will always include a three line header in the email, which would have to be removed from the post manually later. (Nothing I can do about this I’m afraid.) A more direct interface would stop that happening.
August 21, 2006 at 11:14 pm
Jesse Malthus
Ordinal,
SLStats has the power to turn your LiveBlogs (with an affixed SLURL) into posts via the metaweblog or Blogger API.
August 22, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Chance Takashi
I actually wrote a blog hud that had quite a few nifty features, (SLUrls not being one of them… should’ve thought of that), but it used the e-mail -> Blogger tool which is, I find out, nearly always broken. I was too disheartened to rewrite it using the blogger API, although I’d love to be able to actually use the thing. I chose the e-mail route initially because you can fit more text into an e-mail (4k?). My HUD would listen on channel 0 only when active and only for you. Changing the channel was one of the options as was having it log all chat, add timestamps, etc. If the blog entry got too big for one e-mail, it’d chunk it into multiples and add a “part x” to the subject line.
I figured the best way to go about changing it to use the various blog APIs would be to set up an SL->Blog gateway but instead of how blogHUD sends all of its blogs to a central place, have the gateway post to individual people’s blogs after reintegrating the chunked posts. But that sounded like more work than I was willing to do.
I suppose that was a long way of saying that I can’t wait until your blogging HUD is done as I’ll be the first to line up to buy it!
August 25, 2006 at 9:44 am
Signore Iredell
I think this kind of tools could achieve a great success between SL players. Please keep on with you efforts, guys, because they will pay.
I really would be happy to help coders working on blogging-from-SL-tools (I’m totally for individual-blog-tools, not for a centralized approach) - I’m not a coder myself, but I’ve got basic knowledge of some blogging frameworks and I’m quite “into the blogosphere”, so feel free to contact me if you need some help in testing, promoting and/or documenting your tools.
Sorry for my english, BTW :)
August 25, 2006 at 10:28 am
ordinal.malaprop
Your English is perfect, sir, and keep watching this Journal for further developments… I have been somewhat busy of late but should have time to spare this coming weekend.