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Following a discussion site with OPML  Eh. Just an experiment. The new forum software I'm using has an RSS feed for each message board, so I plopped them into an OPML file as a reading list. You wouldn't want to read a discussion site with this as your only method. For one thing, the threading isn't preserved, plus the post author doesn't show up in the feed. It is kind of handy as a quick way to catch up, or maybe to buzz through social sites you don't really participate in, but like to keep up with in a brushing along the surface way. Tom, just one more thing Then I'll try to stop being an annoying terrier about this FTP/community server thang. I don't think the "Dave's got your stuff" question is a big enough worry to use as a rationale for offering an FTP solution as the alternative to the existing community server on opml.org. History. I don't have the skill to do much about it, and probably shouldn't have anything to say about it, but I'd much prefer to see the energy and attention of those who do have the skills focused on making independent community servers work more easily instead -- no, not instead, but with priority over branching off into FTP. But that's what happens with volunteers. They sort of have to be let alone to do what they want to do. The weighted vote goes to those who get things done, and the project direction makes the corresponding turns. Or, I could be completely full of shit. I wouldn't doubt it. Where's Wilk? David you still going to do a CS? The thread: Maybe one problem is fear Operating a community server would be a big chore. I have a sense nobody wants to jump in and try to do it solo. Maybe some partnerships could be formed allowing a person to take on just an aspect of the running of a server and its user support. A history of doubt An interesting interview today on the American Public Radio's Speaking of Faith program. The author, Jennifer Michael Hecht, is a doubter -- at least she does not believe in an afterlife. Her 2003 book investigates studied doubt starting with the Greeks on through biblical references, the Zen tradition, Descartes and more. Stations. The program has a podcast option, but NewsRiver doesn't like the feed. It's lacking an end body tag. I told them about it. Could/should NewsRiver be more forgiving? Nice to hear women's voices -- both the host and guest in this interview. I think admitting doubt may be a thing women are more willing to do. It's kind of a macho thing in modern times to be or to appear to be always certain and never surprised by anything. |
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