[via The Shifted Librarian (to whom I would fall on my knees and worship if I did not have prior commitments) via Digital Copyright Mailing List]

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David Fletcher notes almost the whole government of the State of Utah received instant messaging accounts overnight. The IM service used existing user directories (Novell, no surprise since it's Utah) and user accounts to create the IM accounts. I'm sure they're linked, so lifecycle concerns like ID changes and personnel actions are automatic.

That's why I want a weblog lifecycle API.

So you can turn on weblogs for all of General Motors or the Royal Navy or the citizens of Iran.

Overnight.

To my knowledge, manila is the only blog server with an LDAP plug-in.

Blogging's brilliance starts by eliminating metadata.

Actually, by not having people ponder or type metadata.

With Google, we usually don't miss it.

Except behind firewalls. Google is blind to blogs behind my firewall. And my partners'.

So finding stuff in intranets is ... frustrating.

eVectors' k-collector is working the problem.

Through little bits of magic code, k-collector suggests topics for your post. It guesses based on text in the post that matches existing topics. If people use the feature, I'm sure it'll get much better at guessing. (You know the drill: social filtering, post link analysis, thesaurus search, author patterns, longitudinal trending, etc.)

Why should you care?

• Little to no extra effort to have well marked-up posts.
• Your posts are easier to find.
• Related posts are easier to find.
• More searches produce happy results, faster.

All software should be so considerate.

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The obvious, well said and needing reinforcement:

With rare exceptions it is individuals who practice, not communities.

By Skyrme via Vinson via Efimova.

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