OPML-savvy tools 

Anybody feel like working on that directory Dave mentioned today?

If you're interested in using this as a practice opportunity to jack into the realm of instant outlining, here's one way you might organize it: make the project the top node in the outline associated with your blog's coffee cup; urge community members to subscribe to your outline; and ah... figure it out from there! (Hint: to see what your collaborators are adding, you'll have to sub to their IOs too.)

An easy category to begin with might be aggregators that allow for export of a feeds list as an OPML file. Then you might move on to blogging software, which probably needs subcategories of OPML capabilities -- blogroll, post-to, post export, renderer.

The product of all this would be a rendering of the resulting OPML file on one of the support site pages -- I suppose it will be a page in the Grok section, and linked from the main Grok index page.

Oooh ooh ooh! Just thought of a good name 

Name for a rendering tool: Caesar. Take it; god knows I can't use it -- I don't know how to built stuff like that.

Just watched Donovan's screencast 

Nice! I guess I thought the toot was going to be how to set up the map-a-domain capability in the first place. You do have a very friendly approachable way of explaining, Donovan.

Rounded corners 

I don't know if you picked up on it, but the circles all over the draft OPML Editor 1.0 support site are kind of a circuitous send-up of 2.0 round corners. Since I couldn't bring myself to do the corners, I went all the way round to circles. Take that, you nearly square bubblers.

Hearing from a lot of headhunters lately 

That's always a good sign for the tech economy. I'm not looking, though, and I don't want to be a circulation analyst or an e-commerce director anyway.

Alright Gary! 

CosmicDread got the community server going. Cosmic dread is exactly how I'd describe my state of mind if I was contemplating that testing, so hats off to Gary and the other server testers who are gradually making it easier for future users to tackle the job. How many have done it now, I wonder? Five or six besides Dave?

Gary, did you see my account?

Rejoining opml.org 

Am I back?

E-mail form 

Man, that submits fast. What's the secret?

Working on the support site a little this morning 

I think the download page could end up working the way the Acrobat Reader download page functions. It's not the top-level Reader page (notice the file name is readstep2). But it's the one that gets linked to directly from all those "Get Reader" buttons.

I'll need some advice from CSS geniuses along the way. I haven't used any existing template or patterned it after anything else, so my from-scratch styles may be messy.

Trying to plan which parts to make updatable from OPML files 

Maybe, for example, the guts of the installation instruction pages are rendered outlines. I guess we're planning on it ending up in Manila, which I'm sure must have some built-in utility for doing that.