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09 June 2004   

 

Google mulls RSS support

Bloody typical! I go over to the dark side with Atom API, and find that it's pretty shaky, but seemingly fairly powerful. Just don't wobble the table too much ;-)

Then, Google comes back into the light with RSS.

The only reason Ev Williams took on Atom was to shaft Dave Winer. Bollocks about Atom API being better, and not wanting to confuse teenage girl customers with too many tick boxes. Ben Trott's reasons for choosing the erstwhile Echo API look hollow these days too.

So now what? Do I wait till Ev's been binned by Google along with Atom? Or will there be two versions of the feeds and then two versions of the API? Or, do we have to wait to see if they'll join together into another half breed API? Or wait till IETF matures the Atom API? Or Web-Dav swallows everything?

Fear, uncertainty, doubt!

I guess, this blog vendor will do this, and that blog vendor will do that, which is the way, it seems that Six Apart is adding their own stuff to the Atom API, books, music, links and people lists... Sure Blogger will add their own soon, if they haven't already. Though Atom is extensible so I guess that it's good move.

So I'll move on regardless. One API for these, one for those.


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Atom APIs

I was reading Mark Pilgrim on the Atom API and the Atom authentication till late last night. Thinking that it looks not too difficult, once you get into it. After using XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API as a well as the Blogger API for years, this doesn't look too tricky at all.

I'm interested in it for a project that I'm thinking up, and it's the API I'm interested in not the feed. So was also reading: TypePad's Atom API documentation and Ev Williams on the new Blogger's use of templates and the Atom API: I've taken some notes.

[Update:] Nonces in UserTalk. More from Mark Pilgrim re the Nonce in Atom API And to sha1 I'll try a com object, since there's no sha1 in usertalk. [Update:] Andre Radke pointed to a set of crypto bits for Frontier, with a sha1 hash. Works perfectly.


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"Dirty Kuffar" Jihad rap video

Jihadi rap video.

I'm pretty sure it's British, mentioned in the song are the National Front, a far right wing politial party who've gained slight real gains in local elections here in the UK, though the noise made from them is much louder. There's also, at the end, a sure English accent. I do like the song. I usually like rap, and this is quite catchy. However, this is just the type of propaganda that's gonna cause us all a whole lot of grief. This could become a rallying call for the 10,000 or so Muslim youth here in the UK who are looking for a meaning to their lives.
Thanks to John Robb for this little nugget.

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 Source: John Robb's Weblog; 08/06/2004; 19:45:10.
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Bloody football on the TeeVee news

The blogger who blogs the football blogs asks: "Anyone else already sick of Euro 2004?"

Damn right I am! Why did the BBC play endless, boring coverage of some bloody football payers boarding a bus, then boarding an aeroplane? I switched over to CNN for some real news. Only to be told that sometime past midnight there's be discussions about fucking golf!

Get all sport off the news! That's the people I'm voting for tomorrow.

 Source: BlogFootball; 09/06/2004; 10:45:06.
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English Car Flags Part II

CT talks about the St George's English flags on cars, over on the blogFootball server: "I was just wondering if there was something a bit more deep and meaningful to this"

I _40202779_flagtimminsasis have to say, as a non English person, I find it insulting, aggressive jingoism. I'm sure that's the message that is meant to give out to other non-Englisers like me. I mutter, "fascist" to each one I see. Flag waving national pride like this is one step away from uniform wearing, strutting, blind patriotism. They say, I'm better than you, and I show it with my flag. I've yet to see a flag on a non-English complexion.

From the BBC's page on the issue:
I expect the British National Party are happy about it.
Used to declare annoyance against immigration issues.
Could be used by some to incite racism.

It's not about being English, certainly nothing to do with football. It's about flaunting nationalism. In the US, such flag waving is the _40202777_flagtheresa2asis norm, their flag doesn't have the racial meanings that St George's has. If it were the Union Jack, I'd think different.

God knows why MI5 is interested in these 'loyalists.'


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