Community soup 

Hil added her personality.

Wow, she really trusts people (98, the blue fourth from the left for her, fifth from the left for the rest of us; Hil's extroversion score is invisible). I envy that -- the trusting not the introversion. I wonder what is meant exactly by "agency" in this context. Maybe Dr. Fran can help. Hey! that would be a good podcast topic for Fran, the internet quizzes -- how much stock should you put in them. Not much, I'd think, except as a jumping off point for some healthy introspection.

I thought about putting scores in an OPML file but realized the format isn't that suitable. Following on from Dan's excellent burst on Friday about appropriate uses for OPML, here's a dataset that really belongs in a table. Unless, you want to delegate maintenance because AFAIK there isn't a way to do that with a web database that's anywhere near as elegant as OPML inclusion.

Fran, on the car roll 

I moved the ourcars.opml file from tagcamp.com to opml.org in January after tagcamp apparently was decommissioned.

You can view it in Dan's Optimal Browser , and I just put it on the Manila site for community volunteers.

I don't see your new car there yet, Fran. Did you save the file? Sometimes it takes a while.

I like the way the Manila and OPML Editor directory feature lets you link to a particular node in the outline.

I'm still having a problem reconciling the term “directory” as an OPML browser. It's Dave's language and it's been around for years so he gets to say, but as a fresh eye on the scene I'm confused by its meaning. I didn't explain it very well when I tried before, and I'm still having trouble saying what I mean. Sometimes I can't spit things out without sleeping on them.

No surprise: players make blog news 

Check out the BlogPulse trend line for posts mentioning OPML. You can click on any part of the line for the posts for that day. Every spike maps to an announcement from some big player: Google, Technorati, Apple.