Timoty Appnel is talking about a SOAP/RSS based weblog API. I was meaning to talk to Dare about this at the Crossroads get together, but we got diverted, and Sam wasn't there -- he's been talking about this idea for a while. I think that use of a SOAP document / literal wrapper for RSS items is a viable way to do a weblog API. The biggest rationale I can see for this right now is that XML-RPC based API's don't have proper XML support for character encoding, which makes life difficult for people who don't use Euro character sets. Are there hacks around it? Probably, but it seems to me that an API for personal publishing should have first class support for any character set that people want to use. We've already had problems with non ISO-8859 character support in pyblosxom. There are fixes in the 0.7 series -- but it doesn't help to have support in pyblosxom, if people can't use bloggerAPI or metaweblogAPI to post their entries.