It looks like
UserLand is also working on backing up weblog data to the community server. They're using RSS 2.0, which is an interesting idea. It'll make the data a little more 'approachable'. Brent Simmons has made a
blog explorer app that will present all the data.
I've decided that
bzero will support this format as well as its own internal one (
mentioned earlier). In fact, I've already got it to generate RSS backups for months of blog posts, and they seem to work OK.
The index file for the backup of this weblog is at
http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/backups/files.xml, if you want to have a go with Brent's tool. You can also see the backup for
devlog at
http://www.pycs.net/devlog/backups/files.xml. Tell me if they work; I don't have a Mac so I can't test them.
Update:
Jeremiah Rogers is having trouble with his files, and says mine don't work either. I've added some extra info -- do they work now?
BTW,
bzero's generated RSS does indeed
validate ;-)
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