Rodent Regatta

I’m not certain where Dave may be taking this; in fact, I’m not positive I understand exactly what he’s doing. However, it almost sounds as if he could solve the problem I just mentioned.

Under something called web services is it even imaginable that Radio’s news aggregator could be used in conjunction with Movable Type? Now that would be outstanding.

Okay, my project for today is to rewrite my weblog outliner so it works smoothly with Movable Type, so I can blog the World Series game tonight in the most natural way, just typing and saving, with comments and trackback. It’ll be a Ben and Mena Technology Expo night. So far so good! I have the outliner saving, although the formatting is really sucky. It’ll be less sucky by tonight. Adam Curry emails to remind me that he wants this to work with Radio and Manila. Of course of course. But first I want to make it work with Movable Type. Everyone will expect that it will work with our own blogging stuff. The chance to blow people’s minds is to show it working through the open interface of a competitor’s product. This is how we show web services working, as they were always supposed to, eliminating lock-in, allowing us to enhance each others’ products, and to take the fear out of serving our customers. The BigCo’s don’t get this, they patent stuff and have powwow’s among execs who have no idea what the software is used for. Heh. In the meantime us little folk are building a market. How about that. [Scripting News]