Is there a *good* way to get community data?

Technical question for those who know LJ better than I: is there an appropriate way for outside programs to get at your communities? There are well-established pages for fetching flists and interests, but I'm not finding anything comparable for communities. This is stuff I'd like to pull into CommYou -- you should be able to hold a conversation "in" one of your communities -- but I'm not finding a way to fetch the list short of scraping your profile page...

ETA: Okay, found it. What I need is to add the "comm=1" flag to the fdata.bml call. This is documented, but not on the page where I had originally been looking...

Is there a *good* way to get community data?

Technical question for those who know LJ better than I: is there an appropriate way for outside programs to get at your communities? There are well-established pages for fetching flists and interests, but I'm not finding anything comparable for communities. This is stuff I'd like to pull into CommYou -- you should be able to hold a conversation "in" one of your communities -- but I'm not finding a way to fetch the list short of scraping your profile page...

ETA: Okay, found it. What I need is to add the "comm=1" flag to the fdata.bml call. This is documented, but not on the page where I had originally been looking...

Link: The Attack on Oprah

For a really fine analysis of how the Conservatives manage their campaigns (and why they're so good at it), I commend this article by osewalrus, over on his professional blog. It's a useful reminder of how subtle the political process is, and how you can be manipulated by the other side...

Link: The Attack on Oprah

For a really fine analysis of how the Conservatives manage their campaigns (and why they're so good at it), I commend this article by osewalrus, over on his professional blog. It's a useful reminder of how subtle the political process is, and how you can be manipulated by the other side...