Systems that support Blogger API
For NetNewsWire I’m working on a list of weblog publishing systems that support the Blogger API and optionally the MetaWeblog API.

So far I have, in alphabetical order, Blogger, Conversant, Drupal, Manila (news items), Movable Type, pMachine, and Radio UserLand.

Am I missing any?

The way it works in NetNewsWire: when you set the prefs for a weblog, you specify the publishing system. There’s a popup menu. This way NetNewsWire knows which API or APIs are supported.

But you can also choose Other as the publishing system and set the supported APIs manually. (Which I do for this site and for ranchero.com.)
03:52 pm #

Good thing == bad thing
The great thing about rolling your own weblog software is you get to do it yourself.

The bad thing about rolling your own weblog software is you have to do it yourself.

I’ve been working on NetNewsWire’s weblog editor—but, I confess, my weblogs don’t support either the Blogger or MetaWeblog API. So, ironically, I can’t use my weblog editor with my own weblogs.

So now it’s time to implement at least the relevant parts of those two APIs for my own sites, so I can edit them with NetNewsWire.

The thing is, the thing that makes me a geek, is that I’m looking forward to doing this bit of programming.
08:39 am #