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Re: CHAT: Conblogging

From:Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...>
Date:Thursday, July 5, 2007, 18:04
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:47:18 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:

> On 7/5/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> wrote: >> >> Thanks. I already have a non-conlang-related blog on Google and I like >> their >> blog software; I think blogger and LiveJournal are probably going to be >> the >> front-runners. I will probably decide based on which has Python software >> for >> updating and modifying the blog (most client software seems to use PHP >> and >> Ruby, neither of which I'm much interested in learning, at least atm.) > > As far as I know both sites offer a web service API. Clients can be > written > in any language and no doubt already exist for Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. > Possibly PHP as well, although it's more of a server side language than a > client-side one. I guess if you want to make your own website talk to > theirs that would be a way to go . . .
There are many existing, ready-made local clients (plenty of them are FLOSS), though I find the plain ol' web-based direct-posting interface easy to use and far more convenient than making sure I've got the right client wherever I go. http://www.livejournal.com/download/?platform=all Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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