Oh, this is funny 

Remember my Coroner Gillmor flash movie and song?

Just for fun I put the mp3 on the Podsafe Music Network, never thinking anyone would find it. It's listed under a capella! Tonight I learn that the Podcast Japan podcast played it. The show note about it: "We end the show with a very strange song called 'Coroner Gillmor' from Amyloo. If you dig 'The Wizard of Oz,' you might like it."

The clip about it: japangillmor.mp3. Only I can't hear the song in the podcast. I messed up something in the settings on that sound file, I never was able to figure out what. Sometimes, on some computers I can hear it, other times I can't.

They thought I was a guy. You know who I was going for since the sample in the movie isn't long enough to provide much guidance? This Irish-style tenor on the Lawrence Welk show that my grandma used to listen to. I think his name was Joe Feeny. She'd make my brother and I be quiet so she would rock out in peace. Tenors lots of times go way sharp because... I don't know why they do that -- maybe because the way they strain it sounds awfuller to go flat? I tried for that but I couldn't manage to sustain it.

Oh, but this isn't 

I just dropped a big glass bowl on the kitchen floor. It shattered into at least 20,000 pieces. I cut my foot and broke the vacuum cleaner.

How would you go about making a pet roll 

Kent Newsome is up for putting his pet history in an OPML directory but needs to figure out how to do it. I said I'd make some suggestions. Chime in if I'm missing something.

I started a how-to on distributed directories for the draft OPML Editor 1.0 site, but there are some things I need or want to change in the screencast about making an inclusion file. It's good background, though, if anybody wants to understand the concept of inclusion by looking at some real examples.

Anyway, petrollers wouldn't have to use the OPML Editor, though it would be one good way to do it. (OK, the best way, but not the only way, which IMO is a very democratic thing about OPML. You can have outlines made any which way you can and they can all be a part of the same whole -- or part of several wholes. You gotta admit that's pretty cool.)

First, Kent, do you want to maintain the overall directory? There isn't much maintenance to it. I don't mind doing that part if you want. You could start making your individual OPML file first and decide after that if you want to be the coordinator.

So first you choose a tool: download the OPML Editor , install it and register for an account -- or try one of the online tools like OPML Manager. (You could even do it in a plain text editor. I understand some of the original iPodder.org category editors did this. It would be a relative PITA, but it can be done. Shoot, I use notepad all the time to make quick changes in HTML pages.)

Start putting in your pets: Based on your post about Pepsi the Pretty White Kitty, your outline would look something like this --

-- with the pet name as the top-, or left-most node, and the optional photo as well as each paragraph as separate nodes on the next level.

Honestly, that's all there is to it. Cake.

Here's what that skeleton outline looks like in OPML.

Here it is rendered with Dan's Optimal Browser.

After that, whoever is coordinating the directory makes another, umbrella outline, puts in the pet owners' names and makes an inclusion link to the individual owner files, which can be all over the place, on any server. Whenever you add a pet to your individual outline and publish it to the web, the overall outline automatically updates.

Let me know, Kent, if you have any trouble. E-mail me, or maybe better, post to the comments board in case other petrollers have the same questions. If I don't know the answer somebody around here will.

This will be fun.

Clearly what's needed here is some fan fic 

In the absence of fact, the only sensible thing to do is write some fan fic about the Rocketboom parting of ways. There should be a lot of yelling and crying and dialog like,

"I made you!"

"No, I made you."

Childlike users need Massah 

Thanks for the pointer to the Atom discussion, Tom. I skimmed, but this comment on Scoble's post caught my eye, for an off-topic reason:

"Users don’t care about formats. Developers care very much about formats and they overwhelmingly prefer Atom. RSS 2.0 may survive for a while in the blogosphere where the developer is a second class citizen but Atom will dominate in the enterprise."
Comment by scott — July 4, 2006 @ 8:36 pm

What's he saying? I think he might be pining for the good old days before users started getting uppity.

We can only hope there will be another round of revolution in the workplace like the one that is taking place on the net. It's been such a long time since Workplace Tech Revolution 1.0 -- the PC.