Simon Fell > Its just code > IBlogExtension
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
Being able to post to a weblog from within an RSS aggregator is a really useful feature that not many tools currently have. The proliferation of blogging API compounds the problem. Given the number of .NET based aggregators now around, I had a vision for a simple extensibility point within the aggregator to be able to hook in 3rd party blogging tools. This page documents my thoughts, ideas, and code to date.
IBlogExtension
Greg, Luke, Matt, and I discussed a new version of the interface that resulted in IBlogExtension.A signed version of the assembly containing the IBlogExtension definition is available.
Aggregators
- Greg Reinacker announced that NewsGator 1.2 will support this.
- Synderilla 20030509-BT
- RSSBandit v1.1
Plug-Ins
Previous version
IBlogThis enabled Aggregators
BlogThis plug-ins
BlogIT extension to BlogThis
- Greg's initial BlogIT proposal
- Comments from Simon Fell and Douglas P
- More thoughts from Greg.
IBlogThis history
- April 14 weblog post revised details about the structure of the doucment passed to the plugin.
- BlogX gets BlogThis support
- April 12 weblog post on a strongly typed version of the IBlogThis interface.
- Relaxer updated with BlogThis support
- April 9 weblog post detailing the structure of the rss fragment XML.
- As everyone needs to refer to the same assembly for the BlogThis interface, I put together a signed version of the interface I posted.
- April 8 weblog post about first prototype
- April 6 weblog post, first attempt to explain idea, plus link to Brads post which kicked it all off