CES 08 recognises the bloggers

It looks like the line between ‘Press’
and ‘Bloggers’ at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week
has become even more blurred as the organisers of the show have given out
special
‘Blogger’ badge holders
as well
as their normal ‘Press’ ones. It also looks like the blogger crowd also
have their own
exclusive
break room
for writing up their
blog entries and grabbing snacks, just like the press crowd.

It is interesting to see how much the
blogging community has grown over the past 10 years. The fact that organisers
of these large shows and conferences are starting to recognise the value
that they bring by getting their messages ‘out there’ also shows that company
executives are finally starting to understand the blogs true value.

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How not to make a powerpoint presentation

Hopefully we won’t see any of these at Lotusphere.

Update : The comedian’s name is Don McMillan. An ex-IBM Engineer.

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Planet Lotus Widget

I’ve been watching the PlanetLotus site
with interest for the past few weeks and it is growing in leaps and bounds.
For the Lotus community it is an excellent resource and
Yancy
Lent
has done a great job in creating
it.

I have just added the newly released
PlanetLotus
Widget
‘ to my blog and I hope
that others in the community will do the same on their blogs. Apart from
the fact that it will send more traffic to the PlanetLotus website it will
be an excellent way of finding other interesting posts and bloggers.

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SnTT : Redirecting an RSS Feed – Another method

Bruce Elgort has shown how you can redirect
an RSS feed
to Feedburner using
a combination of Domino Designer and redirection website documents in the
NAB, but what if you don’t have any access to the NAB to create the required
redirect document to do it a HTTP level? Well the RSS spec actually includes
an XML level redirect function that is easy to implement with just the
Domino designer.

First you need to rename your RSS agent
to whatever your want and then setup Feedburner to use this new agent to
get it’s RSS feed. Then you need to create a new agent using the same name
as the old RSS Agent so that people who are accessing the old RSS feed
directly won’t see your live RSS feed, instead they will get a different
snippit of XML that looks similar to the following :

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<redirect>

   <newLocation>

      http://www.feedburner.com/myfeed

   </newLocation>

 </redirect>

This bit of XML will tell your RSS reader
to start using the new RSS feed from Feedburner.

This is also handy if you change hosting
service and your directory structure changes. You could implement this
is the old hosted database as long as it’s around…

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