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Thursday, March 14, 2002
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As my last post proves, you can't use Radio to do Japanese posts. Or, if you can, then I don't have something configured correctly. I told my wife that she should keep a weblog, but she would want to do it in Japanese and I told her she could. But maybe not yet.
1:08:05 PM #
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XML-RPC Client for REALbasic is very cool. And you can look at the source to get some idea of how to do XML-RPC in REALbasic. It uses Dan Vanderkam's most excellent httpSocket 2.0, which may very well be the best http socket class for REALbasic. It even handles authentication, which I'm going to need for my Radio Poster app. I used httpSocket in StockittoMe.
1:00:57 PM #
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I can't wait to have access to the MetaWeblog API. That, together with Matt Neuburg's excellent A Gentle Introduction to XML-RPC should be all I need to write Radio Poster, which will be an app that helps you compose and post a Radio weblog item. I was playing around with something that would be the composer part. It would present itself as an edit window and a list of links. You'd drop the links on the list to get them all together. You'd also provide names for the links so that you could refer to them easily in your post. Then, in the edit field, you would compose your post, using a notation something like #item# to indicate what text was to be substituted with text from the list. My idea was that one you were finished with your post you would copy it, which would automatically expand the substitution text, and paste it into your web browser to post it to your weblog. But with MetaWeblog API, I should be able to save that step and let you post directly.
10:33:00 AM #
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Firstly, John ignores the time needed to find items that might be worth linking to. [Jonathon Delacour]
Jonathon's entire post is definitely worth reading. So if you haven't read the whole thing, then get over there and read it. This quote is also very interesting. John is John Hiler, who wrote The Tipping blog: How Weblogs Can Turn an Idea into an Epidemic. John Hiler claims in that article that it's easier to put a quick link in your weblog than it is to write your own content. Jonathon rightly points out that a fair amount of time goes into finding the right link and preparing it for inclusion in a weblog. This little post didn't take me hours to prepare, but I did have to make sure I had the quotes right and got the various links I needed to complete it. It is more time-consuming than John Hiler seems to think to do this stuff..
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Will Leshner.
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