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With Weblogs-Or Essential Blogging By Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena G. Trott Publisher: O'Reilly Pub Date: September 2002 ISBN: 0-596-00388-9 Table of Pages: 260 • Contents Slots: 1 • Index • Reviews Reader • Reviews With weblogs-or "blogs"-exploding all over the Web, the only thing lacking for • Errata power users and developers is detailed advice on how choose, install, and run blogging software. Written by leading bloggers, Essential Blogging includes practical advice and insider tips on the features, requirements, and limitations of applications such as Blogger, Radio Userland, Movable Type, and Blosxom. This book will get you up and blogging in no time. Essential Blogging By Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena G. Trott Publisher: O'Reilly Pub Date: September 2002 ISBN: 0-596-00388-9 Table of Pages: 260 • Contents Slots: 1 • Index • Reviews Reader • Reviews • Errata Copyright Preface Audience for This Book Structure of This Book Conventions Used in This Book Comments and Questions Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction to Blogging Section 1.1. The World of Blogging Section 1.2. Anatomy of a Blog Section 1.3. Anatomy of a Blog Post Section 1.4. Syndication Section 1.5. Blogging Tools Chapter 2. Desktop Clients Section 2.1. The Settings Section 2.2. BlogScript Section 2.3. BlogApp Section 2.4. blogBuddy Section 2.5. w.bloggar Section 2.6. Slug Section 2.7. Radio UserLand Chapter 3. Hosted Blogging with Blogger Section 3.1. How Blogger Works Section 3.2. Requirements Section 3.3. Your Blog, Quick Start Section 3.4. Basic Blogger Settings Section 3.5. Managing Your Posts Section 3.6. Archiving in Detail Section 3.7. Changing Your Account Profile Section 3.8. Basic Use of Templates Section 3.9. Self-Hosting Section 3.10. Browser Shortcuts Section 3.11. Blogger Buzz Section 3.12. Group Blogs Section 3.13. Removing a Blogger Blog Section 3.14. Support Chapter 4. Desktop Blogging withRadio UserLand Section 4.1. Installing Radio UserLand Section 4.2. Welcome to Radio Section 4.3. A Visual Tour of Using Radio Section 4.4. Routing or Commenting on Content Section 4.5. The Radio Menu Section 4.6. Setting Your Radio Preferences Section 4.7. Publishing Your Blog Section 4.8. Stories Instead of Posts Section 4.9. Adding Pictures to Your Posts Section 4.10. Source Editing Your Radio Entry Chapter 5. Server Blogging with Movable Type Section 5.1. Why Use a Server-Based Solution? Section 5.2. Installing Movable Type Section 5.3. Using Movable Type Section 5.4. Creating a New Entry Section 5.5. Comments Section 5.6. Adding a New Author Section 5.7. Uploading an Image Section 5.8. Syndication Section 5.9. The Future of Movable Type Chapter 6. Advanced Blogger Section 6.1. Basics of Blogger Pro Section 6.2. The Blogger Template Section 6.3. Template Customization Section 6.4. Customizing the Archive Section 6.5. Adding Comments Section 6.6. Incorporating Statistics Section 6.7. Automated Blogrolling Section 6.8. Adding Support for Syndication Section 6.9. Integrating Blogger into an External Application Environment Section 6.10. Exporting Blogger Data Chapter 7. Advanced Radio UserLand Section 7.1. Radio, Frontier, and Manila Section 7.2. Radio Techniques Section 7.3. Backing Up Your Radio Section 7.4. Themes, Templates, and Macros Section 7.5. Understanding How Radio Works Section 7.6. Important Radio URLs Section 7.7. Upstreaming Section 7.8. Online Resources for Advanced Users Chapter 8. Advanced Movable Type Section 8.1. Changing the Look and Feel of Your Blog Section 8.2. Blog Configuration Section 8.3. Archiving Options Section 8.4. Using the XML-RPC API Section 8.5. Security Issues Section 8.6. Tips and Tricks Section 8.7. More Information Chapter 9. Minimalist Blogging with Blosxom Section 9.1. Requirements Section 9.2. Downloading Section 9.3. Installing Blosxom Section 9.4. Optional Configuration Directives Section 9.5. Blogging Section 9.6. Viewing Your Blog Section 9.7. Editing and Deleting Entries Section 9.8. Creating Another Weblog Section 9.9. Syndicating with RSS Section 9.10. Customizing and Styling Section 9.11. Aggregating RSS with Blagg Section 9.12. Running Blagg Section 9.13. Third-Party Additions Chapter 10. Blogging Voices Colophon Index Copyright © 2002 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O'Reilly & Associates books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles ( http://safari.oreilly.com). For more information contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800-998-9938 or [email protected]. Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O'Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in caps or initial caps. The association between the image of flat-headed cats and the topic of blogging is a trademark of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. Preface Blogging has exploded. Every day 1,500-3,000 new bloggers join the Internet. That's a staggering number of new voices, new opinions, and new experiences. You can join these bloggers - all it takes is some software and something to say. We've written this book to help you quickly get up and running with the software. There are many different choices for blogging software, with names running the gamut from the obvious (Blogger) to the literary (Movable Type) to the bizarre (Blosxom). Everyone who blogs has an opinion about the software they use and often about software they don't use. This book tries to take a balanced look at some representative blogging tools and to show you how to use them to produce a unique blog worthy of your thoughts. We start by defining a blog and how the various blogging tools differ in features, price, and ease of use. The first chapter will help you find a blogging system. The second chapter surveys some programs that can make posting and maintaining a blog easier, regardless of which tool you choose. The rest of the book is devoted to the tools. For each tool, we show you how to install and configure it, post to and maintain your blog, customize your blog's appearance, syndicate stories with other blogs, and customize and manage your archive of old posts. Generally, it takes two chapters to explain all the functions of each tool. Some products might have very simple posting maintenance but complex templates, or have simple installation but complex syndication. For this reason, the division of material between the introductory and the advanced chapters isn't consistent from product to product. Finally, we end with advice from experienced bloggers; what to do, what not to do, and how blogging has changed people. We don't provide much information on the philosophy and sociology of blogging - we don't address the question "Is Blogging Journalism?", nor do we try to define just what a warblogger is. Our main objective is to help you select a blog system and get it up and running as soon as possible. Audience for This Book If you want to know how to start and run a blog, this book is for you. You can quickly learn which blogging system is right for you, and then you can soon run your first blog. If you already run a blog, you may still be able to learn about desktop clients in Chapter 2 or learn more about your chosen blogging system from the later chapters. We've tried to provide you with the information you'd have otherwise spent a year learning. We do not cover every feature of every blogging tool exhaustively, so if you've been using and customizing your blogging environment for a long time, you probably know everything we say and more. You don't have to be a power user to run your own blog. The software described in this book runs the gamut of complexity, from Blogger (no deep computer knowledge required) to Blosxom (designed for Unix tinkerers and experimenters). You don't have to be a Unix guru or own a PC. There are blogging systems that run on Windows, Macintosh, and Unix machines. None of the systems we describe in this book require guru-level knowledge of the operating system to install, configure, or use. Although some systems attempt to hide it from you, blog posts are eventually turned into HTML. Most blogs let you write and edit HTML. However, this book doesn't cover how to design in HTML. For more information on HTML, we recommend Learning Web Design, by Jennifer Niedherst (O'Reilly). To benefit from this book, all you need is interest, enthusiasm, and some basic technical know-how. Structure of This Book We've arranged the material in this book so that you learn about blog systems, acquiring the knowledge to select one that's right for your needs, then jump straight to the chapters that address those needs. Chapter 1, talks about the different types of blogs, their basic structure, and the different features of the various blog management systems.
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