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My reason for attending this sessions: What can we, Serendipity users, learn from Movable Type 4? Any cool new features inthe backend and so on. Ok, here weg go:

• MT4 is open source (MT3 wasn't)
• Navigation menu at the top
• Media upload via a Lightbox like overlay
• Images can be tagged, too
• Extended entry via tabs, reduces space
• Rich text editor with the options to display HTML, Textile etc. (this might be useful for some)
• You can restrict HTML tags for comments
• Stats on the admin area frontpage: daily/monthly posts, comments, tags, visits (via plugin)
• Categorize audio and video media files ("assets")
• The multiblog functionality looks great; spam comments can be weeded out for all installed blogs with one click

Conclusion: There doesn't seem to be anything in MT4 that S9y can't do or can do even better ;O) But the backend is slicker than S9y's admin area, I must admit. Anway, I really should do a S9y session on my next BarCamp because almost noone knows about its great features. The plugin system (Spartacus) seems to be the stand-out feature and is connected to S9y by others. So we (S9y users and devs) should see to it that it remains this way, and we should try to improve the backend. But a lot of work in this field is undertaken right now, e.g. plugin administration.

Thanks to Jan Theofel for his presentation.

Guido Karl delivers his talk about the police and web 2.0 now. He wants to prove that the police invented web 2.0 Promises to become an interesting session.

The police are: pioneers of digital photo archives, live streaming since 1989 (even from helicopters), twittering and blogging for years (press portal), finger print scanning, Internetwache.

Sorry for no updates on my behalf, but I had trouble with the wireless network yesterday, couldn't connect neither on Linux nor Windows. Hope this will get better today. Otherwise, I will post a longer roundup in the next days. Gotta go now.

First session this afternoon: "Planning" the BarCampRhine, BarCamps as new ways/innovators to achieve cross-border relationships and cooperation. Had no wireless internet yesterday, so I'm publishing this now.

Users of Serendipity, the fine blog software, rejoice! Garvin announced that he is writing the first book on Serendipity, and it will most likely be a comprehensive manual of the world's best blogging tool. The Book will be published by Open Source Press in early 2008, and it's going to be in German. But, Garvin already plays with the idea to write an English version, too. That's very good news for the whole S9y community and, hopefully, is going to increase S9y's popularity even more.