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Once more, with feeling…

May 21, 2003

With a new version of Matt Berther’s
href=”http://www.mattberther.com/2003/05/000116.html”>MovablePoster plugin, and some advice from Greg Reinacker, (Mr. NewsGator himself), I’m giving posting from Outlook another try…   I’ll still have to go back in and add categories and keywords to make other stuff work like I want, but this will be handy for spur-of-the moment inspirations.

It’ll be fun to watch this product as it continues to mature; there’s a lot of discussion already on

the NewsGator forums about future plans for this feature.

(Edit: Still a bit of strange markup, but a bit better.. Also forgot to mention the addition of the WMP Blogging plugin support in the new MovablePoster, giving the signature line below)

Currently listening to A3/Bullet Proof from Power In The Blood

(Addendum, a year later cleaning up posts so the site will validate as strict XHTML—No matter how they’re hooked together, Microsoft products still tend to write HTML like some people play crouquet (”by kicking their balls around with their feet”).  What a mess. I ended up not getting any use out of the thing—God bless ‘em for trying, but putting rich text from Outlook into a web page is still like putting perfume on a pig, no matter how much you try to clean it up.  Ecto is much handier, all around, and now available for Windows)

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5 Responses to “Once more, with feeling…”

  1. Greg Reinacker on May 21st, 2003 4:56 pm

    Me again. :-) I’m pretty sure the MovablePoster plug-in supports categories; when you’re composing a new post, just enter in the categories you want in the Outlook post window.  As long as the category names match your Movable Type categories, they should work.  Matt could confirm all this for the MP plug-in, but it worked this way in an earlier pre-release.

  2. Chuck on May 21st, 2003 5:03 pm

    lol… Matt just e-mailed me mentioning the same thing.  I had checked that last night and found my normal Outlook categories—I’m used to w.Bloggar pulling the categories from my blog, it didn’t occur to me to try just adding them to my Outlook categories. 

    It’s just getting better and better… Now for the real hat trick, if I could just get a NewsGator posting plug-in for PostNuke… :-)

  3. Greg Reinacker on May 21st, 2003 6:46 pm

    Well, I don’t know anything about PostNuke (never heard of it until now!), but for someone who’s familiar with it, it would be pretty easy to write a plug-in for it.  Assuming they have a posting API, that is.  We have information on how to build a plug-in at http://www.newsgator.com/plugins/developer.aspx

  4. Chuck on May 21st, 2003 7:40 pm

    PostNuke is a full-blown content management system; it was forked from PHPNuke awhile back and has caught on reasonably well.  The news syste (a little more like SlashDot than most blogs) more-or-less supports the Blogger API.  The only posting program I know of that supports it however, is w.Bloggar, so I suspect anyone who did add support for it might find themselves quite popular among the PostNuke community.

    I should probably consider trying my hand at a plug-in, but it’s been years and years since I’ve coded anything other than server-side scripting; if my object programming skills were any rustier, I’d need a tetanus shot before even trying :-)

  5. Greg Reinacker on May 21st, 2003 10:37 pm

    If it more-or-less supports the blogger API, you might try using our blogger plug-in.  It’s worth a try, anyway!

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