We've set up TrackBack at Mac OSXCon for attendees of O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference. If you're using Movable Type or a TrackBack-enabled tool, you can ping the category relating to your OSXCon-specific weblog post. Additionally, each category has its own RSS feed that you can pull into the aggregator of your choice.

See TrackBack at OSCON to view examples of how attendees of ORA's Open Source Conference used the repository.

Morbus Iff has been doing some really interesting things with Apple's iCal and Movable Type. Here's the O'Reilly entry that describes how to publish your weblog into iCal-compatible format.

>From his own weblog, Movable Type blog-to-iCal implementation.

Another thought: since iCal is scriptable, one Ben could write an AppleScript (see below) to gather the latest events in your calendar and publish them to a blogging system via XML-RPC.

Update: Here is an AppleScript called iCal2blog to publish events in your iCal calendar(s) to your weblog via XML-RPC. The README contains usage instructions. Note that you'll need to modify Movable Type slightly to allow setting the Authored On field through XML-RPC methods--instructions on doing so are also in the README.

Here are some of the features to expect in MT version 2.5, scheduled to be released later this month:

• Localization: the MT interface can be available in multiple languages, on a per-author setting. German is slated to be the initial language available at the time of this release; other languages will be available at a later date.
• Integration of Jay Allen's MT-Search.
• Ability to ping blo.gs and other services that accept pings adhering to the Weblogs.com XML-RPC interface.
• "Keywords/Metadata" field added to entries.
• More accessible default templates that follow guidelines from Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Accessibility.
• Update pings (eg weblogs.com, blo.gs, etc) are now sent only when an entry is either new (and published), or was previously a draft, and is now published.
• Image thumbnails can now be created using the NetPBM tools, if your system has those.
• Entry title in subject of notification messages.