Technical Question about Delicious and LJ/DW

[charmian]

Is there a technical reason why the blog posting thing at Delicious (it will automatically crosspost a daily digest of your delicious links) doesn't work with Livejournal or DW without the usage of an external script?

(Asking for a friend who wants to cross-post a digest of daily Delicious links to Dreamwidth)

Comments

[charmian]

Thanks for the info also.

Hmm, I wonder if I should submit a suggestion that DW should support the metaweblog API, if someone hasn't done so already. I have another friend who would like to post from Posterous to Dreamwidth, but she can't unless DW supports the Metaweblog API.

[matgb]

I didn't know Posterous didn't work, friend of mine uses it on LJ.

So yes, that'd make sense, I've never used it, but I've heard it's good, and two major services using it is good, I know Mark wants to use one protocol well, but...

[charmian]

It works for LJ, but Dreamwidth is a separate service, so you'd have to enter it under "other blogs."

What do you mean by that? I don't know much about these protocols. Is it not possible to use more than one?

[matgb]

You can use as many as you like, but each requires dev time, and they frequently update specs.

From what I understand/recall, LJ supports several protocols very badly, Mark wants to make sure DW supports at least one fully and properly. I suspect supporting Meta as it is now wouldn't be a huge amount of work.

Keeping it supported over time might be. Beyond that you'd have to ask Mark, as a) I might be misremembering and b) he might've changed his mind or c) there might be technical issues beyond my ken.

[charmian]

I think I asked a long time ago about Posterous, and then they didn't definitely rule it out, but I think they were prioritizing another one. But now maybe it would be worth writing a suggestion to see if other people would be interested.