Asymptomatic

Should I start a podcast about blogging issues? Wanna be a guest on the show?

Not exclusively "how to blog" or "make money blogging" or "build your corporate identity with a blog", but real discussions about issues in blogging today with people who actually publish blogs, not just pundits....

I've spent a good bit of time over the past week (probably to Chris' chagrin) working on media functionality for Habari. You can see my quick, obviously unrehearsed screencast describing all of the features visually if you don't want to read my post.

Essentially, media in Habari is about unifying all of your media sources inside your blog software so that you don't have to go running from place to place to assemble a post. In other words, making it easy for the user. I have a pretty common scenario that I use when I start into my diatribe about Habari media.

Paying for hosting is a pain in the butt, especially if you use a lot of photos or audio. Anyone with any sense uses a service like Flickr to house their photos and link to them from their blog. It's simply more cost effective. The trouble is that integrating these services with the interface you're already using to write your blog. Habari is great at this....

We've been tossing around this query on the Habari mailing list that will extract some basic statistics from the blog.

I've run this query and published the output here:

The stats for earlier years are off since much of that content wasn't migrated over time, but there is at least one interesting trend here: I'm blogging less frequently, but writing more. And that is probably a good thing.

I'm writing this post from the Septa R5 into Philadelphia, on my way to Suburban Station and a day of work at a temporary office across the street from Liberty Place. That may be one breath of a sentence, but it's appropriate for the month I'm having.

Deadlines for work have gotten... interesting. And in the midst of it all, I have meetings with big clients for the rest of the week. Next week I give a presentation on PHP frameworks, specifically CodeIgniter, which is fun since I haven't used it since maybe June, coincidentally for the client that I'm meeting in the city today. At some point before this major deadline I need to take some time out to watch Riley, since Nana is going on vacation with mom.

Has anyone mentioned the Habari 0.3 release? Any. Day. Now. Just a metter of saying, at this point, "no more", and putting it out. But I don't have the time to do it myself, and my attempts to get others focuses on it have fizzled so far. But I'm (perhaps stupidly) still optimistic for this month....

Have you heard about Habari? If you're a regular reader here, then of course you have. What you might not know is that Habari development is not dead.

It's weird how a summer can bring a natural stall to the activities usually relegated to the development spawned by countless hours of hibernating indoors. To outside appearances, it might not look like a lot is going on with Habari. Even though commits continue to trickle in, but it's not the full-blown force that it was six months ago. I'll assure you now that the project is still quite alive, and that we've even got release news to back that up.

Today we released version 0.2 for developers. This is another release that is meant to be a review for people that want to be ready to develop for Habari when the 1.0 version is released, or want to start shaping the software early on. You can run it on a live site if you're daring (I do here), but I wouldn't go as far as to recommend it. So, what all have we been doing in Habari, then? I'll tell you....