In the spirit of openness and transparency, we publish this roadmap to help developers plan for changes that may require code modifications. Like all roadmaps, it may shift slightly, but we will share insight into what is happening as details become available.

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines - 2011/08/28 - Al-Qaida’s No. 2 Leader Is Dead - Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, al-Qaida’s second in command and trusted confidant of Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Waziristan, Pakistan’s tribal region, a U.S. government official announced Saturday. The State Department had placed a $1 million reward on his head. (more)

API Documentation and Tools

You already know that NYTimes.com is an unparalleled source of news and information. But now it's a premier source of data, too — why just read the news when you can hack it?

NPR's API is a content API, which essentially provides a structured way for other computer applications to get NPR stories in a predictable, flexible and powerful way. The content that is available includes audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations. This archive consists of over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations.