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Blogging is an incredibly popular pastime these days and thank goodness.  I garner so much useful information from business related blogs I'd hate to be without them now.  In the Domino community we're extremely lucky to have two or three really good blogging applications,  There's the IBM Template, Blogo and of course BlogSphere.  Responding to a challenge from Bill Buchan I've written a new BlackBerry application which I've called "BB Meta Blog" (at least until a better name comes about).

BB Meta Blog uses BlogSphere's MetaWebLog support and allows you to create, edit and delete BlogSphere posts right from your BlackBerry.  In keeping with our intentions for this site I am preparing a small paper highlighting aspects of the design which I'll publish here as soon as possible.  The application will be available to install over the air free of charge on Monday and I will, in time, also publish the source code at openCOD.org,

For a video demo and more information take a look at this link here.

Posted by Jason Hook On 05/01/2008 | Digg This |

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Gravatar Image1 - Maybe you can look at another aspect of Blogsphere and the Blackberry for me. Every time I try to surf a Blogsphere-based weblog on my Blackberry, I get stuck in a script loop of some kind...hour glass pulsing in the middle of the screen. I ultimately have to reboot the Berry to clear it, at least usually. What am I doing wrong? FWIW, my own blog (running on Dominoblog) doesn't have this issue.

Posted by Ed Brill At 21:53:58 On 07/01/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - Good to see you call by Ed. We will put our heads together on this one and come back to you.

Mike

Posted by Mike Smith At 11:23:36 On 09/01/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - Much Kudos to Jason. I spent more time getting my BlackBerry desktop software working than actually setting up bbMetaBlog.

Nice work, fellah!

---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 12:30:23 On 09/01/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image4 - @Mike, thanks. I should add that Declan Lynch's blogsphere blog (qtzar.com) has a mobile interface that's great on the Blackberry. I'm not sure how easy it is to make that available on other blogsphere blogs. But if I try to go to twduff.com, lotusgeek.com, etc. on my Pearl, the behaviour I describe above occurs.

Posted by Ed Brill At 12:55:22 On 09/01/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image5 - Jason and I are going to work together and add a special 'Blackberry' and possibly 'iPhone' rendering to the BlogSphere template. Hopefullyy we will have some more details soon.

Posted by Declan Lynch At 14:56:53 On 09/01/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image6 - Any ideas on adding content to a blog made on IBM's .nsf template from a Blackberry? I haven't had much luck.

Posted by Eric Lohry At 18:40:41 On 09/01/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image7 - @ Eric, I know that this is being looked at, hope to have more news for you soon.

Mike

Posted by Mike Smith At 11:35:30 On 10/01/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image8 - @ Eric - this is something that was put together a long time ago but never made it into the main template. After lotusphere I will dust it off and release the code.

There will be code for viewing sites as well - the architecture makes it easy to detect the client so if a mobile device or blackberry connects to the site it can return different html to that of a standard browser. Again this is post Lotusphere stuff due to work commitments.

Posted by Steve Castledine At 09:57:32 On 11/01/2008 | - Website - |