Clemens Vasters

October 21, 2003

@ 11:58 AM

Blogging on newtelligence, Longhornblogs and Blogger at the same time. Blogging Enters The Age Of Push.

Yesterday and today I have added another new feature to dasBlog called "Crossposting". This feature, which will be available in the v1.4 build that I still plan to publish before the Microsoft PDC next week, is simplifying having multiple blogs on several sites by allowing a entries to be posted to a master weblog running dasBlog and having the engine crosspost across multiple weblogs using the Blogger API or the (more powerful) MetaWeblog API. If the entry is updates locally, the crossposts are updated and if the entry is deleted, the crossposts get wiped, too.

My concrete problem was that I wanted to contribute to longhornblogs.com, but didn't want to maintain a separate blog. Now I can post a local post here, check a checkbox and it'll appear in both places. To still get the referrals, I am "bugging" the crossposted articles with a transparent GIF that phones home into the referrer stats of the main blog.

I'll post a "how to" along with the release, which I hope will happen by Friday. Until then, you can check that it works by looking at the three synchronized weblogs.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:43:11 PM UTC

Great!

I have a questions though. Let say I "duplicate" a post from my blog on another blog without this new feature. Will v1.4 (once I install it) be able to take over this duplicated post and consider it as crossposting?

Here's an example:
1. I have a post in my blog.
2. I then copy/paste this post say in longhornblogs.
3. I then install v1.4 when it's available. Will 1.4 somehow know that I have a duplicated post in longhornblogs?

Thanks

Andrej Budja

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:04:06 PM UTC

Clemens Vasters

Look here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's just me, not David Copperfield. ;)

Clemens Vasters

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:14:34 PM UTC

okay, after I read that again I realized what I was asking ;)

But, I guess you have a way of remembering the crossposts, right. So, my question is, will I be able to manually add my copy/pasted post to this crossposts "list"? Like telling 1.4, hey I already copy/pasted this post here. Make it as your crosspost...

Andrej Budja

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:23:32 PM UTC

You would have to hack that into the XML files, but it's fairly simple to do (you'll see the format once you do the first crosspost). Once you've modified the files, touch web.config (causing the app to restart) and it should know it.

Clemens Vasters

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:11:48 PM UTC

Great! That's exactly what I wanted to hear!

You should only do some Copperfield magic to sync the comments ;)

Andrej Budja

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:53:12 AM UTC

So, wanna stop in Vermont on the way back home and set me up?

julie

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 2:17:41 AM UTC

That'd be a newsworthy parachute stunt.

Clemens Vasters

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:41:38 AM UTC

Here's another application for this... we have been working on publishing event feeds, extending RSS with a couple more namespaces. The concept is that you publish an event, like a user group meeting or PDC BOF session, to a single source. The question is whether this should be a push to multiple sources, or the other sources perform a pull. Publish to INETA, and ASPAlliance and DotNetJunkies pull, or should one push to the other two?