2011-11-16T16:29:50+00:00 l.m.orchard@pobox.com 2006-12-21T02:01:38+00:00 http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/12/21/correlation-is-not-causation <p>By the by: Correlating the <a href="http://del.icio.us/help/json/url">new del.icio.us JSON URL feed</a> with <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/12/beyond-soap-search-api.html">Google's recent deprecation of the SOAP Search API</a> is about as effective as noticing how often the clock reads 12:34 when you just happen to be looking at it.</p> <div id="comments" class="comments archived-comments"> <h3>Archived Comments</h3> <ul class="comments"> <li class="comment" id="comment-221090761"> <div class="meta"> <div class="author"> <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.joegrossberg.com"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f288a8afe5302a16a366d5e9d34f2fec&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a> <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.joegrossberg.com">Joe Grossberg</a> </div> <a href="#comment-221090761" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-12-21T13:10:16">2006-12-21T13:10:16</time></a> </div> <div class="content"><p>Because ... you say so? :)</p> <p>Also, I think you misuse the word "correlation".</p> <p>And I think there is a correlation -- both are indicative of a trend in "web services" today.</p> <p>JSON and YAML are getting more popular in that arena and XML (especially SOAP) is something that a lot of programmers dislike workign with.</p></div> </li> </ul> </div>