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Sunday, May 5, 2002

MT and the MetaWeblog API So what does the MetaWeblog API do for MovableType? First, let me point out that MT does not yet fully support the MetaWeblog API. In particular, it doesn't support categories. More on that in a bit. But the best thing that the MetaWeblog does for MT is allow postings with title/link. The Blogger API doesn't support title/link. So if you post with Radio Poster to an MT weblog with the Blogger API you had to live with the fact that you couldn't add a title or link to your post. Back to categories. I'm not so sure categories are such a big deal for an MT weblog. They aren't quite as convenient for MT as they are for Radio. In MT, a category isn't much more than an archiving tool. If you diligently categorize all of your posts, then later you can go back and provide special archives of your categories. But without some work, you can't really use categories as separate weblogs as you can in Radio. But in MT you can do something that may be as good: Create whole new weblogs. So I'm thinking that if I were to use MT instead of Radio I would create weblogs for my Radio categories. Then each weblog would have its own templates and calendar and archive. Plus, with a little work, I bet I can get Radio Poster to stream to multiple MT weblogs the way I now stream to multiple Radio categories. That might be a cool Radio Poster feature. comment ()  9:32:47 AM  #   Radio Poster and MovableType MT 2.11 is out. I upgraded and now Radio Poster can post to an MT weblog using the MetaWeblog API. Almost. It won't work with the currently shipping version of Radio, unfortunately. There's a bug in Radio Poster. Well. I didn't have anything to test it with except Radio, so a bug slipped through. The problem is that when posting with the MetaWeblog protocol selected, Radio Poster ignores the Blog ID field in the configuration tab and always uses "home" instead. That works fine with Radio, of course. But for MT I need to set the blog id or MT won't let me post. I'm going to release a new version of Radio Poster to fix this problem. But I'm trying to decide how much other stuff I want to add. I really want to be able to control multiple weblogs and right now you just can't do that with Radio Poster. comment ()  9:24:17 AM  #   complaining-about-dave-winer parody This is a hysterical parody of somebody whining at Dave Winer and UserLand. I guess we can easily forget that there's a limit to how much we can expect from UserLand for our $40. I think UserLand has raised our expectations by delivering so much. I suspect, though, that our expectations are out of touch with reality. As an example, to thank Radio users for their patience during the recent outage, UserLand upped everbody's server space from 20M to 40M. I had worried what would happen when we run out of server space for our weblogs but now I see that we should hope for more outages. A couple more and we should be up to a Gig of space in no time :) But the extra space is greatly appreciated. Thanks. comment ()  9:18:13 AM  #

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