Blogging API/Tools
I’ve just recently started blogging, and I already crave a
desktop app to manage my blog. All the tools that I’ve come across allow
you to post entries, edit a post, delete a post, and edit your categories.
I’m looking for more.
I want to see my referers and feedback, I want to be able to
respond to feedback as if it were an email, just hit reply, enter my message and
“Send” to my blog. It’s annoying to have to go to my website, log in, and
click around in the .text admin screens to get current information. When I
browse to my metablogapi.aspx page, I don’t see any
available web services that would allow me to add feedback or get referer
information, so it appears that these actions are impossible.
So, does anyone know if these services are currently
available, or are being planned, maybe when Community Server comes out? I
personally would pay good money for an app with an Outlook feel to it, that
would allow me the desktop control that I’m looking for. I’m writing this
post using the beta of Visual Blogger 2004. It’s written
in .net, using the SandBar Windows Forms controls, so
its got the look that I want, but its in the beta stage. If Visual Blogger
matures and more web services are exposed on the server, this would be the
perfect fit, IMO.
Let me know what you guys think,
thanks
Anonymous said,
Wrote on January 22, 2005 @ 6:09 am
If you found somewhere that hosted BlogX or dasBlog blogs you might be in luck: they have (or had, I don’t know about the most recent version of dasBlog)
a web service called blogxbrowsing.asmx and SyndicationService.asmx respectively, which has the sort of functions you’re interested in, although I’ve never tried it.
The OPENNETCF blogs are a good example: you can see the available methods from Neil Cowburn’s blog for instance: http://blog.opennetcf.org/ncowburn/syndicationservice.asmx.
If you want to try dasBlog on your own machine you can get it here:
http://www.dasblog.net/
This is not an advertisement by the way, these are simply the only cases I’m personally familiar with that offer anything like that. I’m sure there are others.