Washington Post Wants to Be Remixed

A big kudos to the Washington Post for their new Washington Post remix project, which you can read about at http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/post_remix/. What a terrific, terrific idea. Now put a wiki structure around Washington Post stories and the WP will officially be too cool for the world.

This page is an overview of what people are doing with Washington Post content -- how they're interegrating it into other information, how they're adding other information to it, and so on. It's in blog format, with current projects including a site that provides Amazon book title suggestions based on Washington Post content, Rebotcasts (automated text-to-speech postings of Washington Post stories -- now THAT is neat. I'd like that tech for about 300 other news sources, please) and a tag cloud interface to Washington Post stories.

In addition to these overviews the site also has an introduction and terms of use for using their materials. It's interesting; the Terms of Use mentions RSS feeds but the introduction mentions "various data offerings" including APIs and RSS feeds.

Washington Post APIs? Did I miss those being introduced or are they still in the planning stages? Does a content producer like Washington Post producing APIs mean that APIs have hit the tipping point?

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