Anyone who's been reading AbbeNormal knows i've been mucking about with RSS readers. I want one that is not web-based, so that it will be fast. This seems to be outside Radio's design philosophy -- that's okay, but if i don't use Radio's RSS reader then i miss out on some interoperability.
So i wrote to the author of Plucky, an up-and-coming Mac RSS reader that will probably become my favorite for a while, about the possibility of implementing an auto-post feature that would connect to Radio like the Post button in Radio's own RSS reader. I looked at the URL in that Post button to see how it's done -- and discovered that unfortunately it refers to the item by an internal story id number, so they can't talk to it that way.
People should be able to use whichever RSS reader and whichever weblogging tools best meet their needs. An externally accessible method for auto-posting would let people do that and still automate their workflow (or playflow as the case may be :-).
I can see right away that this is not a simple problem to solve -- how does one pass the information of the entire item? -- but i offer it as another opportunity to improve interoperability. (maybe it is simple; XML-RPC?)
(also posted on the Radio discussion)
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Doh! I forgot i already knew that the feature i was requesting probably existed. Details in that Radio discussion thread until they're coherent enough to blog here.
11:12:33 PM 
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