tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post115123095109080506..comments2023-10-29T10:32:36.914-04:00Comments on Philosophy, et cetera: Boosting Blogger: two technical proposalsRichard Y Chappellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16725218276285291235noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1151290699566230492006-06-25T22:58:00.000-04:002006-06-25T22:58:00.000-04:00I thought I'd chip in with some thoughts on the ca...I thought I'd chip in with some thoughts on the category proposal, since you asked so nicely :-)<BR/><BR/>Both Blogger and delicious offer an API that means that something like you've described could be built. However, I would suggest it is easier to set up a "master/slave" relationship and use synchronisation so that what happens in one system is automatically reflected in the other.<BR/><BR/>Delicious is the natural choice as "master" since it has a nice facility for displaying, sorting, splitting, merging, searching and editing tags. Looked at in this light, your proposal would boil down to:<BR/><BR/>How can we best get Blogger to reflect our delicious tags?<BR/><BR/>The synch program would need to use Blogger's <A HREF="http://code.blogger.com/archives/atom-docs.html" REL="nofollow">Atom API</A> to discover your list of blog postings, go through them one at a time, checking the corresponding delicious account and search/replace on the tags as required before re-publishing the post.<BR/><BR/>If you're only making changes to a small proportion of posts, it would be more efficient to grab the recently-changed posts on delicious, then finding the blog posts etc<BR/><BR/>I think this would be best implemented as an offline app that would synch your blogs and tags, rather than an online web service as it would be quite slow and resource-intensive.<BR/><BR/>Still, it would be a lot of work to develop ... maybe another approach is to contact Johan and ask him to put a "synch this post with delicious" feature into his <A HREF="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2182" REL="nofollow">userscript</A>. Sure, you'd still have to manually revisit each updated post, but a one-click solution for tag replacement might speed things up significantly.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07749796777534219331noreply@blogger.com