SECURE OUTLINES? 

I'm wondering if the OPML Community server could 'react' to .htaccess and .htpasswd files placed in folders within our document structures to provide some security for our 'stuff'.

It would be pretty easy (I think) to create a tool for generating those files from within the OPML Editor.

Also, I'm interested in secure RSS feeds. Ie: subscribing to an RSS feed which is behind a User/Password, using the .htaccess method. Need to do some testing here on server side challenge/response.

Do RSS/OPML/SSE subscription dialogs needs to have an option for login? ["Does this feed require a login?] If so enter it and optionally save it encrypted in the users' opml data trees so the aggregator can grab stuff without a prompt.

Note to self: I really need to check out more RSS readers for myself and compile my findings over on readerss.com - which is what will be there eventually. Also writerss.com etc. for RSS creation/management tools.

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COMMUNITY SERVERS? 

Did anyone manage to get an OPML Community Server up and working on a single machine with a single IP address?

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MORE TIME TRAVELLING 

Before I pass out to the land of nod again, I must share this link to a post about new way of looking at the London Underground tube map which someone has come up with. Great stuff!

When Yahoo get round to adding the UK to their Flash Maps Beta, I can see a way where I could use OPML with a suggested ‘time’ attribute to store and display this data on their maps. I have already built a demo where you can right click the maps and add data. You can even plop an MP3 player anywhere too from nearby podcast feeds! ;) Mmm, Geeeeooocaaaaasstiiingg :)

It wouldn’t be too difficult to provide an interface for people to add to this data, aggregating different travellers’ experiences (via Flickr or whatever) and the time it took to get from A to B. How about an 'almost live' feed of buskers around the world ;)

I could go around with my pocketpc and bluetooth gps and ‘break surface’ to log the data using some software I have, then dash back down to the next stop. ;)

Get Ken Livingstone on the case too! He’d back it for sure. ;)

BACK SAFE AT HOME 

Yawn... we're back home safely from Boston. What a wonderful (but short) trip, in so many ways for so many reasons. Photos and stories to come.

I'm psyched and totally knackered, but the journey we had there and back couldn't have been much better.

Hmm.. well actually if could have been better if there was at least some free wifi in the clubhouses! Amazing that it wasn't comped. They could provide an unlimited login for travellers (as the hotel did), if they can't provide their own due to some mad shortsighted deal somewhere along the line with T-Mobile, or whoever.

On a related tangent, this is actually what I think Google are up to. With a bizmash of GoogleWallet and a Secure Wifi Gateway, portable data centres and miles of dark fibre sitting around, I believe they could provide a single point of payment for a global wifi service, either piggybacking every wifi provider there is, by effectively paying whoever's network you are connected to on your behalf, or creating their own.

Also, now I can get round to sitting back and watching the video [RealPlayer required] about audioblogging from BloggerCon 2003 at the Berkman Center. Great stuff so far. Now, who do I need to ask to find another format of this? I can convert the downloaded RealMedia to avi, mov, m4v, flash or whatever if this is the only format available, then I would post it up to archive.org where there are some movies from BloggerCon III.

Anyone have any idea who I should ask if that would be ok to do? Cheers.

Update: ahah! I have found a link to some of the session here from Kevin Marks, where he demos a podcasting script which grabs mp3 enclosures and dumps them into iTunes, but the rest would be cool too.

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