[OGo-Discuss] BLOGing/Journaling/ACTing [Was: OGo and asterisk, SUMMARY]

[Adam Williams]

> > I was referring to edit-type applications only. RSS already works.
> There are three methods that I am aware of (perhaps more)
> 1 via a web UI....slow and cumbersome and assumes access to the server

Depends on the WebUI.  Since you can do everything to a project via
various APIs (XML-RPC, DAV, ZOGI, etc...) I suppose you can make any
kind of WebUI you want.

> 2. email posting but can be tricky if not suitable spam management and access 
> controls but strength is that it does not require direct access to the server 
> (my preferred method but I have a bias)

Just include authentication in the mail session;  authenticated SMTP is
pretty standard at this point.

> 3. sessions: a remote editor opens a session on the server, edits or creates 
> data that is uploaded to the server via ftp, webdav, ssh or other. This 
> method requires client software to be installed to handle session management. 
> (see zope/plone for an example; ie: external editor is the name of the 
> product)

I'm not certain how this differs from #1, #2, or using one of the many
BLOG (Blogger/ATOM) clients.

> There is also some xml stuff used on some blogs that I dont quit understand so 
> cant comment on it. 

That is ATOM or Blogger (the fore-runner to ATOM).  This represents a
data model and a [usually] XML-RPC API for manipulating a BLOG.  It has
gone from fairly straight forward to rather complex over time.