2007-01-04

New microformat, not viagra

Posting comments on blogs is still a pain. I just tried to post the following comment to a post on APIs being the next site map:

I agree with you, APIs are the new site map. [comment about site rejecting previous post]

There is still extensive work to be done to eliminate the silos. First, everyone has to have their own web server. The technology isn't really there for that today, unless you count projects like Paper Airplane (which isn't a complete product). Next, service providers need to provide a common set of services that will allow everyone the freedom to move from their limited function server onto the full-scale Internet.

I call that common set of services a WebOS API (http://clamoring.blogspot.com/2006/12/defining-webos-api.html). A new name is probably needed, since folks seem to have stolen that name for webtops.
Do you think a microformat that describes that site map and API would be useful? It would need to replace something machine oriented that is already useful today, such as WSDL.
The following response was given:

Comment Posting Guidelines

Sorry but it looks as though your comment has been filtered out to avoid blog spam. You weren't trying to sell me viagra were you?
Does that look like a viagra advertisement to you? Oh well, I understand the need for comment filters. It would have been nice if it at least indicated that it was going into a moderation queue.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Jadon,
    sorry about that. It's not moderated at all but has an automatic text filter. In this case all blogspot.com URLs are filtered out as I was receiving a lot of comment spam with links to blogspot blogs full of nothing but viagra ads. And what can I do if blogspot can't police their blogs well enough?

    But I take your point about warning commenters first, which I shall fix.

    I'll remove blogspot.com from the filter so you can leave your comment (which I hope you do). Meanwhile I'll go and read about your WebOS API!

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  2. Filtering by blog URLs is fine... but that's what http://splogspot.com/ is for... you can't just blacklist domains!

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  3. What's different between Viagra and this "microformat"?

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