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20030508 Thursday May 08, 2003

Blogger API and Titles Is there any compelling reason that moblogger should support the MetaWeblog API in addition to the Blogger API? I like Blogger because it's already in moblogger and it looks pretty simple. Roller supports it, so why not?

The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't support titles. For Roller, here's a workaround I was thinking of. If the post has a <title> tag in it, use the contents of that tag as the title, or for mobile users, we'd also offer this alternative: 

#t put your title here #

Where "#t" is the trigger that there's a title (short for phone bloggers) and "#" is an indicator signifying the title has ended. It's a very simple way IMO to add title support to Roller for Blogger clients. Posted in Roller at May 08 2003, 10:35:55 AM MDT 5 Comments

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Posted by Keith Sader on May 08, 2003 at 12:42 PM MDT #

They're working fine for me! It might be a DNS issue as this site is now on a new server...

Posted by Matt Raible on May 08, 2003 at 12:48 PM MDT #

Actually, I've mulled this over. My next implementation of Moblogger (non OSS, sorry) is going to have the password be in your signature. On the Nokia 3650, for example, you can add an auto-signature to your emails just like a normal client. I'm going to specify that the password needs to be the last thing in the signature with no separation chars needed. This way you can have your subject be your title (added to the text in Blogger or in the method in MT) and everything as per normal. And this way, posting is more automatic as well since you don't have to thumb in your password every post. :-) -Russ

Posted by Russ on May 08, 2003 at 01:54 PM MDT #

Russ - it <em>sounds</em> like a good idea, but the user would have to be smart enough to not send a friend an e-mail using this signature. There goes your password - and now everyone has it!

Posted by Matt Raible on May 08, 2003 at 02:31 PM MDT #

That would be a problem, wouldn't it? :-) I honestly hadn't thought about sending other email... I think I'm so smart sometimes. I need to get out of the house more. :-) However, the password has to go somewhere to avoid spoofing. First or last or tagged or in the subject line, etc. I'm just trying to make it as simple as possible on the user. Type your subject, message and then end it with your "seal of approval"... Poof, all done. Also, most phones have "templates" that can be used as well, so throwing a password in the template would work. Instead of "honey, I'm running late" it just adds "\n password" I also sounded evil when I said "not OSS", it's not because it's some super proprietary cool thing that I'm selling - it's because it's hacked into the website I'm making sideways and is ugly as sin. Not OSS means I don't EVER have to worry about cleaning it up. :-) -Russ

Posted by Russ on May 08, 2003 at 03:11 PM MDT #

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