January 6, 2003
Green blogging.
You’re not going to believe this. In fact, I scarcely believe it myself. I just composed and formatted this weblog entry in the Notepad on my Newton and then posted it directly through Blogger using a native blogging client. How the heck did I manage this? Using a little something called nBlog, that’s how. The mastermind behind all this handheld software loveliness is the mighty Adam Tow, a Newton programmer from the grand old days when the platform was still being developed. Adam has always remained a fan of the mighty green digital brick and has recently come storming back to the fold with a headful of ideas and the means to see them through. If you’re still hanging on to a MessagePad running Newton OS 2.1 and have it tricked out to connect to the internet, you can download the latest preview versions of nBlog, nHTML (a fully customizable HTML tool palette reminiscent of the animal found in BBEdit), and the XML-RPC shared library from Adam’s weblog. Even if you don’t own a Newton (you poor souls), you may want to read through the information anyway, as it certainly shows how platform agnostic the XML-RPC messaging protocol and the Blogger API really are. There’s also a discussion forum available for all the post-installation and debugging chit chat.
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