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Clean Content = Portable Content
February 4, 2009 One of the most important things for content producers is to remain relevant to their users. With content becoming more readily available to these users through distribution channels, it is up to these content producers to make sure the content i...
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API Upgrade : Mix Your Own Podcast and Other New Features/Content
December 18, 2008 We have upgraded the API to include the new features and content. This launch includes Mix Your Own Podcast, a way for users to create customized podcasts based on their own preferences or search terms. It also includes a Station Finder API as w...
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API Usage
December 8, 2008 We have identified quite a few different implementations of the NPR API, ranging from putting NPR content on member station sites to flashy widgets. In this post, we share some of the usages that we have found. Comment to the blog if you know ab...
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API Decisions : Metrics
November 24, 2008 When launching the API, we spent a lot of time discussing how to monitor the usage of it, as well as what our measures for success would be. As a result, we incorporated several techniques into our API to help us learn about how people are using ...
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NPR's Open Content Strategy
November 10, 2008 Major media organizations are still primarily using RSS-based methods for content syndication. NPR's assessment of the marketplace, however, suggests that the future for content producers is to open up as much content as possible through APIs.
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NPR Roadshow
November 3, 2008 While we have been pretty busy building tools for our Election Night reporting, we continue working on the API. The feedback so fa
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API Decisions : Why Did We Create It?
September 18, 2008 NPR created the API largely for internal reasons, most of which were technical. The idea of opening up the API to the world came after the core API was built.
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API Decisions : Introduction
September 12, 2008 Over the coming weeks, my colleagues and I will blog about the various decisions that we made while developing the API. The purpose of this series is to continue to be as transparent as we can be and to be an active, engaging part of the technica...
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OSCON Presentation on the NPR API
August 20, 2008 NPR presented our new API at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention in July 2008 - this presentation is now available through the Inside NPR.org blog. Sharing the presentation in this forum is the first step to making our process, architecture and dec...
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Suggestions for the Next Version of NPR's API?
August 11, 2008 It has been almost a month since we launched our API and we are now preparing requirements for our second release. What would you most like to see in the next version? Are there specific fields or standard formats that you would like us to outpu...
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Proposing Questions for an API FAQ
July 21, 2008 It's time for us to brainstorm some questions for an FAQ about the API.
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API Rights and NPRML
July 17, 2008 NPR does have limitations on what we can provide in the API, mostly due to rights.
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NPR API is Live on NPR.org
July 16, 2008 The NPR API is now live! Go to http://www.npr.org/api/ to see the documentation and our great new Query Generator tool.
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Coming Soon: Our New API
July 15, 2008 NPR's new API will be launching sometime this week. Accompanying the API will be a new Widgets page. Stay tuned to this blog for more information.