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Two new OPML browsers: Yafbog and Olive. Monitor This is burning up the tracks at del.icio.us. Monitor This is a service where you can put in one search keyword, and the service will generate RSS search feeds from 14 different services (Like Feedster, Ice Rocket, etc). Take that OPML file and stick it in your aggregator, and you've got a turbocharged watchlist. Hey, what would happen if del.icio.us let users give some hierarchy to their tags with OPML? Fun, that's what! AJAX Tagger is a blog entry editor that automates the insertion of tags from multiple tagging services, even suggesting tags for you for your entry. Now it generates OPML as well as HTML output. Groovy. I'm not quite sure what the Blauerbote OPML Reader does; the text about it is in German. BrainTags talks about his experience exporting OPML into TailRank. Alex Barnett: "During the session, it occurred to me that OPML might be what we need to center the attention.xml solution around and move things forward. This is not an original thought. Nick Bradbury has been pairing attention and OPML in his latest release of FeedDemon, I'm sure others have been thinking the same way." I haven't been paying enough attention to attention.xml to really understand what it's for. Maybe if they use OPML I'll start paying attention ;-> Koan Bremner (who rocks) has an OPML outline describing how to move from Windows to the Mac if you're going to switch and want to take as much of your stuff with you as you can. Nifty! Hey, another one: "Now I know of three -- Monitor This, Gada.be, and Kebberfegg. Michael Arrington responds to Dave's idea about OPML Reading Lists: The problem with opml files from readers is that they are static, meaning I can give you my OPML file but you will never know if I add or delete feeds unless I tell you and give you the new file. All you get is a snapshot of my feeds from the moment that I share my file with you.e thinks these files should be dynamic, which means that I can share my opml file, or as he calls it my reading list, and anyone who subscribes to it will always have the current version, no matter how often I amend that list. Kellie Miller: "I have been on a "dogfood eating" spree. I decided to use the Google Reader to read my favorite feeds several weeks ago. I've learned a thing or two about RSS feeds since then. Not in a technical sense but rather in a process sense. Some content I want to read in it's entirety, like Scripting News for instance. I found that as my list of feeds grew, I started missing items from Scripting News. ow I can live with missing two thirds of the content on Gizmodo or Engadget but I've got a long term relationship with Scripting News." What RSS Does to your Information Intake It's funny, I hear two contradictory things about RSS by people who aren't yet comfortable with it: One, "It's overwhelming, I can't read all that stuff!" and "RSS will target people so narrowly that they'll tune out from the news of the day." Both of these are wrong. For the Overwhelmed, I say, "Do you feel overwhelmed by the newspaper? Do you feel compelled to read every story?" They say, "No, of course not." The problem is that these people think RSS is like email, and they have to read each individual message. It's not. The "too narrow" people assume that an individual RSS feed sticks to a single topic. As anybody who subscribes to a blog knows, that's far from true. I subscribe to 600+ RSS feeds. My informational net isn't narrower -- it's much, much wider. I never miss a national news event in the US, because the chances that *nobody* will write about it are very small. I also know a lot more than I used to about international news. I'm better informed than I used to be because of RSS. OPML is a turbocharger for RSS. It's going to make my current informational setup look like a Model T. Kevin Burton, who's part of the development team for online feedreader Rojo, just finished a podcast that talks about OPML. Ah, here's some info about the RevTim passed his ordination exam. Mazel tov! |
Last modified: Saturday, November 12, 2005 at 11:40 PM.
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