For those of you who don't quite understand what all this "bookmarklet" stuff is about, I've created a little demo movie.

Little is relative, of course. It's little for a movie, but it's still 6 MB.

(This is when Thom chimes in about video blogging and how I should be distributing it via BitTorrent, to which I respond that there are only ~30 people on this list. Though he's welcome to post a .torrent file if he wants to help out in that way... ;-)

This is just a test post via the weblog bookmarklet. It appears to have worked!!

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I seem to have misplaced my official todo list (not kidding), so the following is my new official list of significant features still to come in Weblog 2.0.

• Monthly archives (now partly done)
  
• Weblog Posting Bookmarklet (now done)
• Expose the whole weblog ii api via xml-rpc
• Private channels (now done)
• Some way to specify that a post should NOT go on the default channel. Haven't figured this one out at all, yet. (now done)
• a new kind of channel that lets you specify the search args manually, since that feature has now disappeared with the redefining of beginner/advanced channels. the current channel system won't be able to be shut off (though you can choose to simply not use it), and creating this other type of channel will require explicit selection. no more confusion (cancelled)
  
• a simple channel editing/managing interface in the weblog itself. Not sure about this one, but it's looking likely. Maybe just a macro to return a direct link to the channel editor would be good enough?

What am I forgetting...? There's an old to-do list here, I'm pleased to see that a lot of that list is done now.

On 2/19/05, Brian Carnell said:

>I'd really like a message macro that would let me point to the path of a 
>weblog ii page, and the macro would report back a) whether that message 
>is on that weblog ii page, and b) if so, what date it appears.

How about something like this:

<!--#weblog.findMessage
	pageId="weblog2beta/index"
	linkText="On the Weblog"
	noValueText="This message is not on the weblog."
-->

Which produces: On the Weblog

That will return the full url to the message in the weblog archives, including the #anchor. If the message isn't there, it'll return noValueText if you provide it or an error (in html comments, of course) if you don't.

There are other options, too.

Set linktext="anything here" if you want the result to be an HTML link to the location on the weblog. If you don't set the linkText attribute, then the result will be just a URL (or the result of noValueText, or an error, as describe above).

Set dayPathOnly="true" if you want the result to just be the path to the day in the archives, like /2005/02/18#item1234.

Set pathOnly="true" if you want hte result to just be the path within the conversation, starting at the root of the conversation. So, you'd get back something like "index/2005/02/18#item1234" instead of "http://www.free-conversant.com/myfreesite/index/2005/02/18#item1234".

Set includeAnchor="false" if you don't want it to include the #item1234 portion in the result.

Finally, if you want to link to it on a particular channel, just include channel="theChannelName" in the macro. So the macro might look something like this:

<!--#weblog.findMessage
	pageId="weblog2beta/index"
	linkText="On the Weblog"
	channel="channelNameHere"
	noValueText="Not on the weblog."
-->

That will, of course, check to make sure the message appears on the channel in question before linking to it.

Got all that? :-)

Seth

Another change in tonight's update: if you have "pings" active, it's pinging both weblogs.com *and* technorati.com.

So please take this as a warning. You can't shut off or enable just one of the ping servers, yet. At the moment, it's a package deal. Control over your ping servers, including the ability to add custom servers not already in the list, will probably be in the next update.

Seth

For another change in tonight's (now, last night's) update, see the outline of macro documentation. Scroll down to weblog.item and click on it to expand it. Scroll down to "weblog.item.channels", and shift-click on it to fully expand it.

More docs!

That macro has some new options, and there are probably some options there you didn't know about before.

Seth

The macro outline has been udpated with all of the parameters used by the weblog.addToWeblogForm macro. You'll probably find that there are parameters you knew nothing about. The same will be true for virtually every macro, once the docs are written.

Also, macros which are fully documented are now highlighted in yellow.

(Yes, there's only one highlighted macro right now. That's better than it was ten minutes ago, though.)