Tonight we had the third meeting of the Weblogger Interest Group here in Mountain View, first at Dana St. Roasting Company (thanks, Nick) and then over beers at the Tied House. About 20 people turned out and we had a nice discussion about personal versus professional conflict in what one writes in a weblog. While I don’t work just now, I am aware that future employers or clients may come and look at the archives. Good thing I don’t say fuck a lot. Or shit.
The big event tonight was a demo of the new Blogger Pro from Pyra Labs (aka Ev Williams), which is launching this week. I was definitely impressed with what I saw and will be coughing up the $35 as soon as he opens the PayPal door. Some of my favorite of the new features were draft/publish to the future posts (that is, write something now but hold off publishing until I say so or until some specific time), titles for posts, use of lightly loaded servers, publish to email, and (coming soon, not in the first release) RSS generation. Amusingly, I did not notice a new Blogger Pro icon but hopefully this will be remedied quickly.
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