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