To follow-up on myself… Dave Winer is with me, pleading for extending the MetaWeblog API. Ev fired back, “If we thought the MetaWeblog API suited our needs, we would gladly adopt it.”
How about 100 words explaining why the MW API is lacking? It only took me 26 to explain how all of the new functionality could be added to the present MW API. Ben Trott read my mind and wrote “seems like change for change’s sake.” He was talking about a very specific aspect of the new API, but I think it applies to the whole.
At least Pyra has been responsive to issues with the API itself. They’re supporting the Introspection API and encouraging other implementers to do the same, the method prefixes have been changed to blogger2, etc. The whole thing still stinks, but it’s slightly less repugnant now.
Follow-up: It’s not what’s best for the developers and users, it’s all about Dave Winer.
