Now Tumblr, inspired by WordPress, has introduced a Twitter compatible API.

Dave Winer says: “If Facebook were to implement the Twitter API that would be it. We’d have another FTP or HTTP or RSS”.

If it was also added to the self hosted WordPress, the case would be even stronger for the Twitter API becoming a new open standard.

• The Cult of Done Manifesto [Bre Pettis] Some interesting advice – however, as one of the comments says, it may not be applicable in all circumstances: “Let me know when you design an airplane, or automobile, or CAT scanner, or fire extinguisher, or elevator, or SCADA system, or microwave oven using this method, so I can be certain never to use it”.
• Designing for your least able user [BBC Radio Labs] Epic post by Micheal Smethurst on “usability, accessibility and search engine optimisation from an information architect’s perspective”. Excellent.
• What is the Open Platform? [guardian.co.uk] Good move by The Guardian: Content API and Data Store.
• Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable [Clay Shirky] What is the future for newspapers?

• Why the open strategy is a good idea [Matt McAlister] Matt thinks “we’re on the cusp of an explosion of open strategies and concepts across all markets, not least of which is the publishing world”.
• 1,000 web APIs [ProgrammableWeb] “Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th web service API to our API directory.”
• Prototyping with XHTML [Boxes and Arrows] “Leverage code as a design and specification platform.”
• The week that Britain’s culture wars broke out [Observer] “The BBC’s attempts to create cross-generational entertainment have opened up new fault lines.”
• SERTUC conference on PSB [BECTU] “The South Eastern Regional TUC‘s Creative and Leisure section, is organising a conference on the future of public service broadcasting … on Saturday 15 November 2008.” Update 10 November 2008 at 1607: The conference has been postponed.

• MPs, step away from the internet [Charles Arthur - Comment is free]
• Music beta and linked data [BBC Radio Labs]
• Gears, BrowserPlus, and Web 3.0, baby [Yahoo Developer Network blog]
• Things to consider when using WordPress as a CMS [Devlounge]
• Oh happy day – the new Delicious is here [Delicious blog]
• Londoners not paying for Oyster Card failures [Going Underground's Blog]

• Call for web to stay open for all [BBC]
• NBC uses Olympics as research lab [Variety]
• Open Tech 2008 [Jeremy Keith]
• Commons motion to free postcodes [Puffbox]
• What to do? [Cameron Hunt]
• ‘Linking here’ lists with Google feed API [Puffbox]
• Opera Web Standards Curriculum [Opera]