Last modified: Friday, October 31, 2008 at 9:25 PM.
What are you still doing here? Go home! 
OPML Editor or Flock blog editor: which would you choose? I'm just getting into Flock's use of snippets and it's really nice. It's almost making me reconsider where I keep my "regular" blog. Flip-flopping -- it's not just for politicians anymore.
The agenda for the meeting I just scheduled 
- Walk through the changes from the previous wireframes document
- Catch-up on project and recent developments
- Summon Advice-of-the-Directors (+5 Wisdom) and smite enemies
Dave's got a good point: everyone is saying that Amanda got fired from Rocketboom. Why? As far as her video is concerned, she, um... left on her own? Actually, it's pretty hard to get anything concrete from her video. It's kind of like how I felt when Sarah Lane of G4 said she was leaving Attack of the Show and getting married to fellow G4 correspondent/producer Brendan Moran, but she did it on April Fools Day not long after AotS admitted to two highly publicized internet pranks regarding video iPod rumors. Sure, it could just be a funny coincidence as she put it, but it still smells funny because it's obvious it would be suspect, yet she didn't wait a day longer. Same thing with Amanda -- she says she wants to be transparent about this, but there's no real details mentioned, and it's so vague it could still be a stunt. If internet has taught us anything, it's that people will prank or pull just about anything to get attention.
Update: Now it doesn't look fake. In fact, it looks like it's going to get a lot uglier.
Silly me, I tried installing IE7 Beta 3 on my Windows installation, and it's tripped up the OPML Editor enough where it crashes on launch. I'd prefer to find a workaround (as in, "why does the OPML Editor hook into Internet Explorer at all, when there is no browser-hook in the Mac build? there must be a way to disable this...") as opposed to jumping through the many hoops that is uninstalling the IE beta, but in the meantime it appears that all of my OPML blogging will be done on the Mac at home.
dude, where's my data?
Just added another track to my mp3.com profile, and sure enough, they still haven't fixed the problem where my collection is only viewable when I'm logged in. Can it be seen by other mp3.com users? Who knows! I was told it was being looked into 2 months ago -- no word since.
I certainly put enough time into it, so I'm going to keep poking at them until it gets corrected, but it's this kind of thing that really makes me question the client-server future. I like the social web, but if there's a problem with my data, I'd be fine with it being my fault. When it's someone else's...well, we all know how that can be. There may be something to Dave's model of the OPML Editor keeping posts local and then upstreaming to the server silently, because if blogs.opml.org ever died, it would be frustrating, but I'd still have all those entries on my hard drive ready to upload somewhere else.
This only solidifies my conviction that Web 3.0 will be about the glue that holds these services together--web to web, local to web, and any others in-between that may arise. Until then mp3.com will be the sole keepers of my album collection data unless I want to re-enter them manually somewhere else.
Which brings up the question: why aren't there more music community sites that let you upload, or synchronize through, your iTunes XML file?