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Today is Mike Houser's second blogiversary, which he plans to celebrate by working on his OPML to Wordpress script. Does it come with candles and ice cream? Many happy returns! Leslie Orchard has a script to show you what your OPML file looks like in the XOXO format if you're curious. Alex Barnett: 7 Reasons Why 2006 Will Be A Big Year for OPML Daily Screencast: How To Import Your Bloglines File Into the OPML Editor J Wynia: "New readers who found this site in the last week probably aren’t aware that the OPML sampler fits in with thought’s I’ve had about something I’ve been calling OnyxCube as it’s a content black box. You push RSS, OPML and your intentions into one end and get out RSS, HTML or whatever other format makes sense on the other." Coooooool. Dieter Zincke: "Dies ist en Test!" Wow! Yafbog has got a way to have the blogroll from his Wordpress site be automatically generated from the RSS subscriptions in his RSS reader. I always knew this was possible, but it's great to see actual applications of it. The RSS Compendium has put together a page of OPML resources. This OPML Directory has a wide variety of OPML files that gather feeds from news sources (EG, an OPML File of all feeds from Business Week. Many Euro sources as well). There are so many apps that you can put on a USB keychain drive now. I store my OPML file on my keychain drive, in case I need a backup.... but Abilon is an RSS reader that's only 500k and can run off a USB drive. Heh! Downloaded! Libraryclips: "Well if you could do a blank search of your RSS reader OPML file on a blog engine, and you sorted the results by date and subscribed to this RSS feed, that would just be like a spliced feed for your whole RSS reader, Rojo already offers one." Long post with many, many ideas for aggregator developers. Are Outlines the Tool of the Oppressor? Voidstar: Google and Category Imperialism. Voidstar says he considers outliners harmful, because they encourage hierarchical structures that become powerful without regard to their usefulness; he prefers folksonomies. Outlines are points of view. They take the data that's out there -- the content of the web, and metadata like tags, and present one person's (or one organization's) point of view on that data. Outlines say, "this is how I think things fit together; this is the order I think it's useful for you to proceed through this material in; this is what I think is important, and this is what I think is of subsidiary importance." Outlines describe relationships between ideas as seen by one person. Voidstar's right to consider them powerful enough to be harmful in the wrong hands, because often our structures for thinking about things are portable when the things themselves are not, and can trick us into not thinking about new facts or new situations that don't fit our preexisting point of view. [Paging Mr. Rumsfeld...] Wisdom is knowing when to write a new outline. But outlines are useful because we need to pass on bodies of knowledge to other people. For a complex subject, handing a person a laundry bag of ideas, materials, and tools isn't enough; you need to pass on information on how these fit together, and sometimes, the order in which they should be used. Voidstar's point is, what happens when a very powerful entity -- like Google -- makes an outline? Well, I think that's a problem that has to do with the proper exercise of power, not with outlines per se. Those in power have to be careful with every tool they use in order to avoid adverse outcomes for lots of people. Is this a Folksonomies VS Outlines Smackdown! Bring in the folding chairs! Nah. I'm a big user of del.icio.us and the OPML Editor, I just use them for different things. OPML offers you whole new opportunities to Fight The Man -- just mashup his outline. We can start with a citizen mashup of the FEMA org chart [PDF link] -- tag the hell out of it and reorder it as social commentary. |
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