Weblog Preview
A preview of a weblog component for Workplace that enables self-service blog creation, archiving, perma-links, comments, blogrolls, search, and syndication.
Date Posted: July 12, 2005
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Update: February 16, 2006
Version 2.6 inlcudes a different installation for Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6; bug fixes and UI changes; multiple language support; and Atom 1.0 feed support.
What is Weblog Preview?
Weblog Preview provides the basic functionality usually expected of personal weblogs. For instance, Weblog Preview supports the posting of content in a journal format, emphasizing a personal point of view. The weblogs are public by default; that is, any authenticated Workplace user can read the blog. In addition, all authenticated users can comment on or link to the posts via "permalinks." The weblog owners, however, can restrict access to their blogs via the Workplace membership portlet, just as with any Workplace component.
Weblog Preview also allows bloggers to have a public list of favorite weblogs (that is, a blogroll) on their blog so that readers can see what the blogger finds of interest. Bloggers can put links to either external or internal blogs in their blogroll. In addition, Weblog Preview provides both an Atom and an RSS syndication feed format so that readers can subscribe to their favorite blogs in the feed reader of their choice.
This technology runs on Linux® and Windows® (see the Requirements section for details).
How does it work? Weblog Preview provides basic weblog functionality, but it is also a Workplace Business Component -- that is, it takes advantage of Workplace infrastructure. This gives the weblogs consistency with other Workplace components for a number of features important to the enterprise, such as
- security
- integrated search
- awareness
- roles and community
- administration and policy
- application templates
This preview requires IBM Workplace Collaboration Services (WCS) 2.5, Workplace Services Express (WSE) 2.5, or Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6.
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Rich Gorzela was the lead on the Weblog Preview team. He holds a M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in mathematics. Mr. Gorzela currently works as a software engineer in the IBM Software Group, Lotus. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Dynamics Research, Empressa, and iCentrix (where he was a founding partner).
Other contributors to this preview include the following:
Bob Barber, IBM Software Group, Lotus, Westford, MA
Steve Foley, IBM Software Group, Lotus, Westford, MA
Will Joyner, IBM Software Group, Lotus, Westford, MA
Steve Isaacson, IBM Software Group, Lotus, Westford, MA
Duncan Mewherter, IBM Software Group, Lotus, Westford, MA
Susan McKinstry, IBM Software Group, Durham, NC
Hiroyuki Miyamoto, IBM Software Group, Lotus, Westford, MA
Mark Rovelli, IBM Software Group, Lotus, Westford, MA
Elad Shahar, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
Vova Soroka, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
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