Going to Lotusphere – The Long Way Around

Posted on November 10, 2005 by qtzar

When I was recently made redundant I said
to myself that I was going to take a little time to myself and go on a
nice holiday before looking for work again. Today I booked that holiday
and it should be a great trip.

Starting from Dublin I’m off to Austrailia visiting Perth, Canberra and
Sydney.  Then it’s on to Hawaii for a few days before hitting the
US mainland where I’m going to Las Vegas for a few more days and then onto
Orlando for Lotusphere.  I’ll be getting into Orlando a few days early
so I can hit the theme parks, enjoy Lotusphere and then it’s off back to
the real world and job searching.

Should be an great trip and I’ll probably be doing a hell of a lot of air
miles. Christmas day on a beach in Sydney should be an interesting experience.


Oh, and I’m over in Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving again this year.

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Lotusphere 2006 Sessions List

Posted on November 10, 2005 by qtzar

The sessions & tracks list for Lotusphere
2006 has been posted
on the official Lotusphere website.

New on the list this year is Track 5
: Panel Sessions and I’m now delighted to announce that I’ve been invited
to be a member of the ‘Reach
Out And Blog‘ panel. I’ll
be up onstage with Ed
Brill, Chris
Byrne, Volker
Weber, Jack
Dausman, Rocky
Oliver and Libby
Ingrassia. We will be discussing
‘What blogging is all about, how blogs work from a technical perspective,
compliance issues around blogging, and how blogs and "social networking"
can help you reach out to your market in ways you never thought possible.’
I just hope I can get a word in edge ways

This isn’t the only blogging related
session on the list. In the Futures And Innovations track IBM will be showing
the plans that they have for
Blogs, Wiki’s and RSS in the Workplace family of products.

From a quick look at the sessions track
this promises to the be an exciting Lotusphere. Even The
Turtle is speaking.

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Podcasting Using BlogSphere

Posted on November 9, 2005 by qtzar

Anybody who has been using version 2 of
BlogSphere may have noticed a new option on the ‘story’ form called ‘RSS
Enclosure’ except it didn’t actually do anything. It was added as a placeholder
for PodCasting features but didn’t have any code behind it and when V2.0
was released it was never removed.

With the recent
interest in PodCasting in
the Domino community I sat down today to finish off the PodCasting features
in BlogSphere and after a bit of trial and error in getting the feeds correct
I’m happy to say that the next release of BlogSphere will now fully support
PodCasting.  The PodCast features will also support the iTunes tags
so that you can include your PodCast in the iTunes PodCast Directory.

The PodCast features will allow you
to embed your audio/video file within the notes database or point to an
external source if you require the ability to offload the bandwidth to
a different server.  Podcasts can have their own seperate RSS feed
or you can select to include them in your main stories RSS feed.

The new version of BlogSphere will be
available real soon.

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Ping-O-Matic

Posted on November 9, 2005 by qtzar

I came across this handy service called
Ping-O-Matic
after reading a comment
that Chris
Linfoot left a while back.
 It is a service that will ‘ping’ all the common weblog trackers like
weblogs.com,
Technorati,
Syndic8
etc all from a single webpage.

Currently BlogSphere
has the option to ping weblogs.com built in but in the next version this
option will be replaced by Ping-O-Matic.  The Blog Configuration screens
will allow you to select which services you want to ping and when you publish
a story the system will automatcially open up a new webpage to Ping-O-Matic
so you can see the results of your ping attempt.  

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