If you find yourself, as I do, storing up bookmarks in a "to blog" category? Then I have a tool for you. There are no more excuses for blogging about something as you find it.

JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.

JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away.

It has rudimentary support for Drupal. Here are some basic instructions for setting it up for use with shadyvale.org.

A rising number of sites and applications are supporting the Atom standard of syndication. I have seen some complaints about software which only supports one and not the other. I haven't read up on their differences, but it seems like Atom is gaining steam. Drupal only supports an older version of the protocol at this point. But my favorite feed reader, liferea supports atom. Which is how I read Melissa Kadera's new blog.

Google Goes Atom

Google spurns RSS for rising blog format | CNET News.com.
I typically don't pay much attention to the syndication standards wars
but this is kind of interesting. Google has gone with the Atom standard instead of RSS for syndication on its Blogger network. Existing Blogger Pro users with RSS feeds can keep them but all other Blogger customers will only be able to deploy Atom feeds.

As long as all the popular newsfeed readers implement Atom, I don't
think it will make much difference to the end users. Anyone maintaining
a list of Atom adoption in reader software?

Update: I should have dug a little deeper on the Atom site. Here is a directory of client software (mostly readers) that supports Atom. Thanks, dw!

The goal of the Semantic Web initiative is as broad as that of the Web: to create a universal medium for the exchange of data. It is envisaged to smoothly interconnect personal information management, enterprise application integration, and the global sharing of commercial, scientific and cultural data. Facilities to put machine-understandable data on the Web are quickly becoming a high priority for many organizations, individuals and communities. The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people.

The principal technologies of the Semantic Web fit into a set of layered specifications. The current components of that framework are the RDF Core Model, the RDF Schema language and the Web Ontology language. These languages all build on the foundation of URIs, XML, and XML namespaces.