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LazyWeb: RSS to MovableType converter, TrackBack pings as posts

I'd like to see the LazyWeb site become a for-real blog, with support for comments and trackback pings, while retaining the current TrackBack-driven posting interface. I offer two solutions to this problem in the form of a dual post to the Lazyweb; the first is a quick solution, the second is a far-reaching solution. Have fun :)

Write an RSS to MovableType converter, that occasionally sucks the contents of a feed into MovableType's comment database (paying attention to uniqueness, updates, etc). The goal is to leave the current interaction structure intact (as the lazyweb appears today, while providing for all the features of a full-blown blog: comments, trackback, archives, searching, etc.

Alternately, modify TrackBack pings to be individual comments in the MovableType database, assigned to category "TrackBack". Then you could trackback ping *individual* trackback pings, or the item being pinged (as a side effect, automated ping-surfing tools would go into infinite loops). This would be a bit more intensive, but would benefit MovableType: now I can describe why exactly I chose to list a given URL in the trackback pings of a given article.

Update: Here's an RSS to MovableType implementation; thanks, Phillip!

Update: Apparently Lazyweb.org is now a blog, with comments and TrackBack. Yay!

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FWIW, you can do the RSS stuff using Net::Blogger

http://search.cpan.org/author/ASCOPE/Net-Blogger/lib/Net/Blogger/Engine/Movabletype/mt.pm

Ooo, thanks.

I did this ages ago for the group-forming mailing list:

http://dev.myelin.co.nz/gf/

Would you like me to put the code up somewhere? It's pretty trivial.

Phillip: That'd be marvelous! Yes, please. =)

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