Before I began blogging I thought MT would be able to do a couple of things which to the best of my knowledge it can’t. (I’ve looked at, but I’ll admit not comprehensively, the MT Plug-In Directory.) Here are the top two items on my wish list:
1. Auto-linking. When I first began reading blogs I was immediately struck by the convention of linking to other people’s blogs whenever they were mentioned by name. The practice was so prevalent that I simply assumed blogs had an auto-linking function, roughly akin to an email address book. So that if I typed “Dudley” in the middle of an entry I’d automagically get a link to Dudley’s blog. Of course I realize the shortcomings: I might not always want a link to Dudley’s blog, I might want to link (trackback) to a specific post within Dudley’s blog or archives, there might be another Dudley, etc. But surely these could be negotiated. (Bookmarklets kind of do this, sort of, but not really in the way I had imagined.)
2. Cross-posting. Is there no way of cross-posting a single entry to multiple blogs on which one has authoring privileges? It would be very cool if one could do this across multiple MT installations, but one should at least be able to do this within the confines of a single installation. Am I missing something?
Posted by mgk at November 1, 2003 09:28 AMBrad Choate's MTMacro plug-in (http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mtmacros.php) ought to accomplish your first wish. Don't know of a way to do the latter, though.
Posted by: Liz Lawley at November 1, 2003 09:41 AM | Link to CommentCross-posting really should have been at the top of the list. I would think there would be _enormous_ demand for this, and it strikes me as _the_ way of leveraging the power of MT as a Web publishing _system_. Many times have I wanted to cross-post between, say, my main blog here and a course blog.
Posted by: MGK at November 1, 2003 12:48 PM | Link to Comment