Gettin' techie wit it
I've noticed some excellent techie posts lately, so I feel duty-bound to point them out.
Phil Pearson, XML expert Kimbro Staken and Movable Type consultant Chad Everett have been working on a Structured Blogging plugin for Wordpress and MT. This is to enable ordinary folks (like me) to publish "new microcontent types, support microformats and other standards like Media RSS". Phil's looking for feedback, so if you're technically inclined jump over to his blog and add your 2 cents.
Also I found a great resource via the 9rules homepage, an article at Fiftyfoureleven.com about how to use the Yahoo! API. As it states in the intro:
"Looking at Yahoo!s APIs, you can see a little of that "openess" that Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel referred to at 2005's Web 2.0 conference. From images to movies to maps and search, they offer a lot of data through their APIs."
Fiftyfoureleven.com also offers an ongoing API series. Great stuff and I'll be reading this very closely and experimenting when I get some free time (in about a week!). Also check out ProgrammableWeb's How to Make Your Own Web Mashup article. The beauty of mashups is that anyone can play, thanks to great resources like these and the backend work of folks like Phil Pearson.
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Structured Blogging sounds great. However contrary to what your post implies, there is no MT plugin, only a WP plugin. Unless there's a link I missed?
Posted by: andrew | December 11, 2005 3:56 PM
Hi Andrew,
There isn't an MT plugin right now. It's a little unclear from Phil's post whether they're building it, or leaving it open for others to do so. Either way it would be fantastic to have one, as I'm an MT user.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | December 11, 2005 4:03 PM
I had installed this plugin a couple days ago, and have only tested it, but it looks great. This is what I had wanted for rating how some sites are doing but also movies and CD's for personal blogs. I would myself go in and change the post a bit, but thats so for trackbacks so a link to image isn't the first thing shown. I would also like to have an area in my sidebar for the ratings (how many 5 star, 4 star..) but this could also be done with tags of 5 star and so on. But like they said this isn't the final version and with a start like this, I can't wait to see how it ends up.
Posted by: Curbob | December 11, 2005 10:05 PM
The new version of the MT plugin now seems to be available from structuredblogging.org
Posted by: Phil Wilson | December 13, 2005 4:07 PM