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TOOLS

• The waxy.org EBay to RSS Tool - via Anil Dash
• mboxstats creates several top-10 lists like this example from a file containing e-mails in mbox-format
• iaslash: Semi-automatic diagram creation

MOVABLE TYPE

• MovableBLOG: MT Archives Indicator
• Staggernation.com: The ExtraFields Plugin/Hack allows you to define additional custom fields for entries
• Mark Pilgrim: Using MTMacros to create a blog's mobile edition
• This might be a repost, but still you can integrate the HTMLArea WYSIWYG editor into MT

PHP

• The ReadingEd RSS Parser is now know as Onyx RSS. There are loads of new features and a decent documentation with some examples. Via Couchblog
• Audioblogger, homebrew: Using PHP and 1-800-555-TELL to set up your own voice blog

READING

• Boxes and Arrows: Happy Birthday B&A - one year Boxes & Arrows. A look back including "some fun facts about B&A: Yes, it was started after a three-dollar bottle of pinot grigio was consumed in the sun. Hacking Movabletype to use as our CMS was not necessarily the wisest course of action for us, but it seems to be working out. There is a market out there for a CMS for small magazines, I swear..."
• Micah Alpern: Searching the Blogosphere - Using Weblogs to Improve Search. Hat tip: Martin Röll
• FastCompany: How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows. FastCompany may be one of the next big sites to switch to XHTML markup and CSS layout, by the way.
• Digital Web: Three approaches to Intranet Strategy and Jon Udell: The conversational enterprise - via Martin Röll
• InfoWorld: Technical trends bode well for KM - "Making knowledge more available gets easier with Weblogs, improved information sorting, better user connections" - via Anil Dash
• David Davies: What RSS search engines like Feedster are good for
• And like the other days, Back to Iraq 2.0 is a must read. The three known Iraq blogs have been added to the sidebar.