Day: December 19, 2006

  • O’Reilly Radar > Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API

    This was reported on the O’Reilly blog.  Apparently, Google is deprecating their SOAP API.  If you ask me — this is a terrible decision.  Look up the current sets of books on Google Hacks, etc. and what you find is an entire ecosystem designed around these API.  This is why developers have traditionally liked Google — its why I’ve traditionally liked…

  • Lost in Airport hell

    I spend the weekend in DC as a panelist for an NEH grant.  It was a very interesting experience.  Having never been on an NEH grant panel before, I was somewhat amazed by the tremendous number of high quality research project currently being undertaken in the humanities.  If this is a representative sample of the…