Sunday, July 23, 2006

Blog and viewer influence on BBC news agenda

Blog and viewer influence on BBC news agenda: "The BBC's The Editors blog continues to be one of the most interesting and useful media blogs around.

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He also discusses the strange case of someone being surprised when they discovered that Newsnight editors were reading about them, he sense that people somehow feel that what they write on blogs is somehow, sometimes a private conversation, and not exposed to the all-seeing eyes of Google and Technorati.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Solved

I was researching this problem in a drupal community forum and it turns out that there is a security module which some hosting providers turn on which blocks execution of anything with the string “xmlrpc” in it!

The real solution is to persuade them to unblock it but the temporary answer is to rename that file to something else and use that as the api endpoint