So I wrote an entry on my tumblelog about what's going on with my life currently. Since Tumblr's feed doesn't get pushed immediately, I showed the post to my co-worker and friend Chris, before it hit the planets:

- So, yeah I have my blog since it's syndicated on Planet Debian and other small feed aggregators -I said.

- But do they really care about your bike, your chess games or you attending that conference? -he asked-, I mean, I do care, but people?

- Well -I replied after a quick thought-, I think that's how personal blogs work.

After a deeper thought I just realized that indeed no one cares and deleted the entry before it was pushed to the feed, updating it on FeedBurner, etc. It was a nice awakening.

But on a bit more interesting (for people) things, The Perl Foundation is currently requesting comments on the projects they received for grant requests. My proposal is there, "Solidifying and Extending the Blog Normalize project". I do think there are some other more deeper projects, of course, but I think B::N is also an interesting one and the amount requested is not as big for other projects, so it'd be nice to give it a try.

I believe B::N is a good idea that could be enhanced nicely. I proposed the idea to the TextMotion developers yesterday on IRC (since that's one of the CMS there would be a connector for -as of the grant proposal-). After deeper discussion, CMSs will not make translators for a lot of projects into theirs, but B::N would, so maybe we could make some sort of webservice that CMSs could call on their installation phases. That, or the user at the end could actually do the conversion himself locally.

Having the proper information, one could be able to get from TextMotion to Wordpress, to Blogger, to Joomla, to Tumblr, to MovableType and to TextMotion again, making a transparent circular transformation.

Some of this is currently possible with the few code I've written for it, currently in CPAN (and a bit deeper proof of concept); if you are interested, please leave your comments on the Perl Foundation blog entry. And review others too. At the end, I might end up doing the project myself, but if some money is granted to do so, why not apply to it, that'd just speed it up.