The specification does not describe "category";. Is this an ID of a category? Is it possible to simply submit the full string of a category name along with a...
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Mike Amundsen
mamund
Mar 7, 2003 6:18 pm
Although it's not doc'ed I found that there are two 'modes' of category support for metaWeblog API: Single category (SC) Multi category (MC) In SC, you simply...
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Marsh, Drew
drew_marsh
Mar 7, 2003 6:31 pm
... You're right it doesn't. It actually leaves it open to interpretation. In the implementations I've seen (Radio and Blogger) however, it is the string name...
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Dougal Campbell
emcampbell3
Mar 13, 2003 9:30 pm
Can someone clarify something for me? The spec says that metaWeblog.getCategories returns a struct. Is it suppose to be an array of structs? Or is it really a...
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sbhagavathi
Apr 28, 2003 8:08 am
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journurl
Apr 28, 2003 9:06 pm
Dave: I note that the audblog folks are now supporting Movable Type... any word on how long it'll be before we see metaWeblog API support? Or is that just not...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Apr 28, 2003 9:23 pm
I think it's totally nuts that they express compatibility in terms of products, not APIs. I hope someone competes with them and zigs to their zag. Dave ... ...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 6, 2003 10:48 pm
Diego Doval's review [1] of blogging API's, and the discussion that followed is an absolute must-read for developers working on either side of the interfaces....
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rcade
May 8, 2003 4:07 pm
A repost from my weblog: Dave Winer is proposing a new version of the MetaWeblog API, an XML-RPC interface for weblog publishing that's supported by ...
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journurl
May 8, 2003 4:50 pm
... the ... I hate to be disagreeable, but... yikes! IMO, most of that stuff is far better suited to app-specific APIs, or at least some sort of optional API...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 8, 2003 6:25 pm
It's going to take some time to digest this, but I'm sure you already knew that. It would be easier to point to, btw, if it were on the Web. Yahoo tends to...
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rcade
May 8, 2003 6:38 pm
... already knew that. It would be easier to point to, btw, if it were on the Web. Yahoo tends to mangle docs like this. Dave Here's a link: ...
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rcade
May 8, 2003 6:46 pm
I've already replied to this once, but it must have been eaten by a grue. ... API-based signup is already supported on Radio.Weblogs.Com, Salon Blogs,...
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journurl
May 8, 2003 8:15 pm
... That's what you get for letting your torch burn out. :) ... So why integrate a functional, pre-existing API into metaWeblog? If developers want to support...
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rcade
May 8, 2003 9:00 pm
... I suspect that he might, since it's already available on UserLand, Salon Blogs, and PyCS community servers. Sites that don't want to support user...
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Lavandowska
flanandowska
May 9, 2003 5:56 pm
... What if they aren't using Radio et al? I'd like to support this functionality all under one API rather than two: I don't want to tell my users "Use this...
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journurl
May 9, 2003 7:40 pm
... tell ... one ... Why would you be telling your users anything of the sort? If you've got a client tool that handles signups and content creation, and an ...
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Lavandowska
flanandowska
May 9, 2003 8:24 pm
... Ah, but I'm not the one building that tool. I prefer to leave that to someone else. I'm more interested in what messages that tool might send my way, and...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 10, 2003 5:53 pm
Well, I gave this some thought -- and I'm sorry to disappoint, but I don't love the idea. :-( Let me explain with an analogy. Suppose I had a bus. I drove...
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Mike Amundsen
mamund
May 10, 2003 9:28 pm
While the car/bus thing is fun, imho it doesn't apply here. I think the blogger community needs a broad-coverage api that encourages other content systems to...
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Roger Benningfield
journurl
May 10, 2003 10:01 pm
... that is ... That's what the MW API is supposed to be. I'm not sure, however, why you think that has anything to do with a suggestion to incorporate ...
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rcade
May 12, 2003 1:41 am
... why ... I'm trying to see your perspective, but I don't understand how you could deride weblog account creation as "irrelevant functionality." Clearly the...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 12, 2003 1:52 am
Rogers, thanks for picking up the discussion in a constructive way. First, why shouldn't xmlStorageSystem be considered as a first-class API in league with...
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Roger Benningfield
journurl
May 12, 2003 6:15 am
... The creation and management of an account is not directly relevant to the job of an API that is designed to manipulate weblog entries. IMO, the rule of...
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rcade
May 12, 2003 1:19 pm
... I don't see anything in the MetaWeblog API spec that restricts it to the manipulation of weblog entries. It's already more than that -- ...
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Jeremy Bowers
jerfb
May 12, 2003 2:39 pm
Speaking as someone who will be implementing a meta-weblog client soon but hasn't quite yet... I'd say that this does not belong in "the Meta-Weblog" API. Why?...
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Dougal Campbell
emcampbell3
May 13, 2003 3:29 pm
... Agreed. User account management should be a separate API. And of course, trying to come up with such an API in a manner that is flexible enough to shoehorn...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 15, 2003 9:41 pm
This is something I've wanted for ages -- an efficient way to upload a sequence of images to a server, and be able to reference them as a group. ...
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Roger Benningfield
journurl
May 15, 2003 11:46 pm
... upload a ... group. Dave, This is where I ask: "Is there an RSS 2.0 element for a sequence of images? If not, why would it be part of the metaWeblog API?" ...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 16, 2003 10:21 am
Is this a question or a comment? -- either way, please elaborate or clarify. Thanks. ... From: Roger Benningfield To: MetaWeblog-API@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
