crossPost Plug-In for Manila

While thinking about postback-ing [1] or crosspost-ing I did a quick lookup at google for crosspost. Here [2] is a simple Plug-In by Oliver Wrede that installs XML-RPC handlers to post news items to a Manila site and retrieve a department list of that site.

Imaginably next generation CMS will probably have a server software that additionally handles request from various admin tools to post entries. So posting or blogging to others, maybe also to calendar applications [3], rises the question for the administration those posts. If I let someone – a FOAF – post to my blog or CMS it is obvious, that with this \”monolog\” or \”post-and-forget\”, it is up to myself to edit and modify that certain post. If the admin is lazy, he might like to give also administration credits to FOAFs.

Does this make sense? What would we gain? Why not just put a \”register yourself\” on the login page?

Well it could make sense. If FOAF is to be used as an abstract user managment system eventually. Let us consider, that we move away from the idea, that every application, e.g. say blogging software, needs its own user managment. We would probably need now to define ouf FOAFs and their privileges in the foaf file or files on the maintainers server or even a kind of central FOAF server, like the one for PGP keys.

So if one gets and installs such a blogging software that relies on a user managment based on FOAF, that would make such a system highly interoperable. Having something like a userlogin, a password would still be nescessary. Where to store that? I have no idea yet.

Update:
Un-FOAFed but heading for a \”Universal PHP Authentication Replication System\” [4].

[1] http://www.circle.ch/blog/p912.html
[2] http://owrede.khm.de/dev/manila/plugins/crossPost/
[3] http://blog.saalmann.de/categories/ical/2002/10/28.html#a255
[4] http://php.weblogs.com/universal

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