A linotype (contraction of line-of-type) is a machine that was invented to allow single individuals to be able to mass-produce written text without sacrificing text readability, typesetting elegance, performance of the authoring process and ease of use.

This software is my humble try to do it over again for the semantic web. Mainly, I wrote this software for a bunch of reasons:

1. I’m leaving for South America and I wanted to be able to publish a journal of my journey.
2. I agree with Jon Udell when he says that the semantic web will happen incrementally or not at all. I’ve been stating this for years. He suggests that blogs might be this first step toward a more semantic use of hypertext and recent trends in RSS 2.0 namespacing suggest this is even more so.
3. Because I want to be part of it, I need my own tools to experiment (much like Sam did with Mombo). I thought about using prebuilt blogging software, but I had a bunch of code I wrote for my last web site’s micro-CMS and I decided to write my own using cool features like direct WYSIWYG XHTML editing using Mozilla’s Midas (I’m a contentEditable type of guy, but Midas is much more advanced than any contentEditable solutions for mozilla now available).

I provide two different RSS feeds:

• a minimal yet highly reliable one using RSS 0.91
• a more modern one based on RSS 2.0 on which I plan to experiment.

Enjoy!