Weblogues.com

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Marc-Olivier Peyer a lancé weblogues.com hier, un référenceur de weblogues francophones. La FAQ est silencieuse sur les weblogues bilingues, et je n'ose pas inscrire le mien vu la proportion écrasante de l'anglais sur le français. Encore une raison pour créer un joueb séparé et ne pas mélanger les genres, ce que je trouve tout de même dommage (pour moi, pas pour Marc-O, à qui je souhaite un franc succès).

Marc-Olivier Peyer has launched weblogues.com, a service similar to weblogs.com, and somewhow Technorati, for francophone weblogs. This raises again (for me at least) the question of bilingual weblogs, since those various services assume that weblogs are written in only one language. XHTML has a way to indicate the language used behind a link (only one yet, which is still better than nothing, you can see that in action on this weblog where all links pointing to French content are followed by [fr]). Weblog software, as far as I know, do not provide a convenient way to set the language for a post, which would give the webloggers, but most importantly their readers, the ability to customize the view as they wish (e.g. show only one language, or pass the language information for each post through RSS or communication protocols to allow for aggregators and online tools to use that information as well).

Weblog software and service developers, please mind your language!