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opmlPete and indentation (Round 3) 
No arguments with your thoughts. It is what it is but it can be changed. I liked the pref you suggested. And, yes, I agree that you should be able to use the outliner for outlining and get it rendered how you'd like.
I like it like it is  .
Donovan, Peter Cook, and indentation (Round 2)
Well, Donovan (and Peter), I didn't make myself clear. I intentionally keep my RSS feed items short. People can skip over them quickly if they're not interested.
Indentation doesn't hide ANYTHING because it all shows up on the blog itself. But what does show up tells you whether or not you want to see the longer post, like this.
| | Donovan read my prior post and decided I must be using it to hide things and went off looking into comments. Apparently, the whole notion of longer posts on the blog and shorter feed items didn't come across. His post: |
| | I invite you to listen to my thoughts on this conversation regarding indenting in opml editor and the results you get (or don't get) in rss feeds. about three minutes. i call this a thoughtBlip. music by cold elf off magnatune. :-) By dwatts@gmail.com (Donovan Watts). [Donovan's thoughtStream] |
| | I guess I sounded like I was hiding stuff in the third and higher indent levels. I am hiding stuff from the RSS feed but not from the reader of the blog. I believe that RSS can be a feed of headlines, a useful table of contents. Donovan, Robert Scoble and others believe that the RSS feed should have the full content of the blog. I like OPML editor because it lets us both achieve our ends. |
| | Maybe a pref to set the level at which the RSS feed quites grabbing the content? |
Telecoms regulation consdered harmful
An article by Eric S. Raymond, triggered by a request from Doc Searls. ESR, as is often his ability, hits the nail squarely on the head.
| | The punchline: "... and let the market decide." |
| | That would be a free market statement. But the probability that telecommunications would be deregulated and the market allowed to decide is about zero. The sunk capital in the entrenched players is pretty much all paid for. There's lots of lovely profit from their operations (in spite of the high rates). They can afford to corrupt the process and ensure that change favorable to the country and to the citizens never happens. |
| | The sad part is that the Telecom Industry and their ally, the Media Industry, are soaking up radio spectrum, dominate the satellite capabilities, and control the wires. Now that SBC has reunited with the heart of AT&T, how long before the holy grail of a private monopoly on telecommunications is reestablished in the US of A? |
| | Just a though, mind you. I'm sure it can't happen here. |
Are VCs the Real Chasm in 2.0?
Jeff Nolan asks the question on Venture Chronicles. He answers it yes ... as if they weren't in 1.0!?
| | VCs are quick to claim the victories, the monsters they funded and took public. VCs are humble about their untold numbers of failures shut down or sold into other companies for a fraction of their invested value. The never talk about the companies they didn't get into. |
| | I was in two startups that the VCs ignored. Either could have been taken to an IPO. One got bought by Microsoft so they could kill absorb the technology and any of the patents filed. The other got sold for a pittance to EMC where it's now the core of a business ten, twenty, or more times the acquisition price. Those were both failures on the part of Venture to venture. |
| | Symas got ignored by a number of Venture firms from large and famous to small and boutique. There's a pretty good chance, the VCs missed this one too. |
| | If you need a VC, good luck becoming obvious. And then, simply, good luck. |
Hmmm, collaboration?
At the last Berkeley Blogger's Dinner, I asked Dave Winer about collborative outlines. He wasn't sure what the application was or the value proposition. I think the collaboration on the OPML Editor docs could be a case in point.
| | opmlPete would like to help Lisa: |
| | I'd like to help. I've been reluctant to make a commitment because I'm concerned that I'll only have sporadic, unpredicatble time available. But I would like to help in some way with the manual. I just couldn't see how, logistically, we could collaborate. Lisa has been thinking about all of this. |
| | I really like the idea of the functional manual plus the how to manual. We need both. [opmlPete's OPMLblog] |
| | The original Groove outliner tool had serious problems. But when you updated an entry, it was immediately updated on every other machine with a copy of the project. That made it very cool and fabulous for collaboration. |
| | We're still looking for a Mac-based tool (or even a Windows based) tool that works the same way. The closest we've come is SubEthaEdit which is good but no cigar. |
opmlPete groans about OPML Editor, indenting, and the RSS feed.
He notices that things indented to the third level and beyond are not pur into the RSS feed. That's a feature, not a bug, Pete .
| | This gives those of us who want control over how much of the blog goes into the feed a convenient control. I generally write a headline, then a short teaser or lead, then indent here to the third level for the longer discussion. The RSS has a Read More link. |
| | There was a posting here taking issue with the religious issues around full-text versus headline style blogging. This is the feature that lets us on the latter side of the argument |
Today
The rains arrived and passed through yesterday afternoon (around 3/10"). Another wave this AM (over 4/10" so far). Hope the snow line dropped over night so the snow bunnies stop complaining.
Rowed an easy 5393.
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