FWIW, there's a project called Echo afoot to create some new standards 
in this area.
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 06:23  PM, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> Yet another server we should have...
>
> Daniel
>
> Jim Benson <jb at speed.net> wrote:
>> Daniel,
>>
>>> What are the weblog standards other than RSS itself? protocols from
>>> posting, so forth?
>>>
>>
>> Needless to say, once somebody makes a nearly useful thing in the 
>> computer
>> industry everyone jumps in and tries to make a mess of it. With that 
>> said,
>> the major players, Blogger, Radio and Moveable Type currently support 
>> the
>> 'Blogger API' to post to web logs.  See
>> http://www.blogger.com/developers/api/1_docs/ and
>> http://xmlrpc.free-conversant.com/docs/bloggerAPI to get a feel for 
>> it. Note
>> that there's a move afoot to make it much more "powerful", which 
>> probablys
>> mean much more complicated and painful to use a smaller subset of the 
>> useful
>> part.
>>
>> Today Google announced support for an IE specific toolbar feature that
>> enables users to transfer online content directly to weblogs.
>>
>> The feed coming out of the weblog comes in various RSS flavors 
>> depending on
>> the supplier, ranging in versions from 0.9 to 2.0. I believe that 
>> James
>> Roberston at VisualWorks has an open source Smalltalk project called
>> BottomFeeder that syndicates feeds, and seem to recall that he's been
>> working on blogging tools also.
>>
>> Jim Benson
>