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date: "2004-03-21T20:56:30Z"
title: Blogs, RSS, and XML-RPC, Oh My!
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<p>
I've been looking for a couple of other <a href='http://www.xmlrpc.com/'><acronym title='eXtended Markup Language'>XML</acronym>-<acronym title='Remote Procedure Call'>RPC</acronym></a>- or <acronym title='Simple Object Access Protocol'>SOAP</acronym>-aware <acronym title='RDF Site Summary / Really Simple Summary'>RSS</acronym> directories to query from the new feed search in <a href='http://www.raggle.org/'>Raggle</a>.  There seems to be a plethora of ping <acronym title='Application Programmer Interface'>API</acronym>s exposed, but virtually no query interfaces.  At the moment, the best one by far is the <a href='http://www.syndic8.com/'>Syndic8</a> <acronym title='Application Programmer Interface'>API</acronym>, followed closely by <a href='http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/'>Meerkat</a> (both are <a href='http://www.xmlrpc.com/'><acronym title='eXtended Markup Language'>XML</acronym>-<acronym title='Remote Procedure Call'>RPC</acronym></a>.  Ah well, <em>c'est la vie</em>.  Speaking of the new find feeds feature in <a href='http://www.raggle.org/'>Raggle</a>, here's what it looks like:
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<p>
<img src='/screenshots/raggle-find_feeds.png' width='492' height='597' title='find feeds' alt='find feeds' />
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<p>
It's even less functional than the Categories code at the moment, but the basic framework is there.  Anyway, here's a couple of interesting links:
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<ul>
<li><a href='http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html'>Big List of Blog Search Engines</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000302.html'>New [sic] Technocrati Pinger is active</a> (contains a list and rough description of the blog ping process)</li>
</ul>