The Blogger APIs
I took a look at the APIs for accessing Blogger (and a large range of Google's other data services). I am a Google fanboy. No surprise there. Android is just the logical next step on that journey. They seem to provide so much more than the companies that I used to rely on. People like Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. Its a while since I used MS technologies professionally, so maybe their offering has come along, but Sun - now Oracle - is still stodgy fare compared to the nice things that Google lets us do. So what can you do with the blogger APIs - well pretty much anything you can do with a blogger account. Create posts, edit existing posts, delete posts and add comments. A range of client languages are provided for in this - php, JavaScript and for my liking Java. In essence the Blogger API is just a layer sitting on top of a common data access API provided by Google for most of their services (Analytics being another interesting example). So the client bit just puts tog...