Interesting piece on RWW about the NYT adding an API
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_york_times_api_coming.php
How about we "make museums programmable" too...? J
Mike
"An API is a logical next step for newspapers. It will give developers
access to their vast amounts of well-researched data, and allows the
paper's brand to be spread easily across the web. More access to Times
content and the ability to mash it up in new and interesting ways can
only be a win for both readers and the paper.
The web of the near-term future isn't about pages any more," wrote
Marshall Kirkpatrick in his massive post on APIs in March. "It's about
data, flying around, hopefully under the control of users, and offering
a world of possibilities that few of us could have imagined just a few
years ago."
The New York Times seems to understand that. Says Aron Pilhofer, the
paper's interactive news editor, the goal of an API is to "make the NYT
programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data."
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