For your reading pleasure....

Chapter 3: "Tagging and Folksonomies." (2007-08-08)

Chapter 4: "Feeds, RSS and Atom" (2007-08-08)

Chapter 5: "Remixing Weblogs" (2007-08-08)

I don't think that there is an official API for Google Reader although Niall Kennedy documened an unofficial Google Reader API a while back.

Even though I've been weblogging since March 2000, I have not worked systematically to cultivate a readership for my blogs. But now that I've left the comforts of my university staff position, I've become much more interested in developing an audience for my websites. Of course, one of the basic ways to develop a readership is to be a good reader of other people's work. We are involved in conversations on the web, after all.

One little technique to use to keep my blogs in the mix is to have my blogs ping technorati whenever I write a post on my wordpress blogs. Following http://technorati.com/developers/ping/wordpress.html, I figure that I should go to WP->Options->Writing->Update services to add http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping . Update Services « WordPress Codex provides a list of ping notification services in addition to technorati, including the one for Google Blog Search -- which I've started to using in addition to technorati. I'd like to figure out which of the blog search engines are the best ones to use.

I posted today first drafts of 5 more chapters for my book.   Take a look -- I'd love to get some feedback on these drafts.   (Send me email at raymondyee AT mashupguide DOT net.):

Chapter 3: "Tagging and Folksonomies." (2007-05-02 07:58:41)

Chapter 4: "RSS and Atom and syndication; integration with news readers" (2007-04-24 17:52:20)

Chapter 5: "Integration with Weblogs and Wikis" (2007-05-02 08:08:41)

Chapter 8: "Learning AJAX/Javascript widgets and their APIs" (2007-04-06)

Chapter 14: "Social Bookmarking and bibliographic systems" (2007-05-02 08:33:09)