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It's been a big week in OPMLville -- I have a lot to catch up on! Dave posts a link to the XML-RPC API for the NewsRiver aggregator. Dave also added FlickrRivr, which will let you add streams of Flickr images to your OPML experience. A happy meeting
A happy serendipitous get-together of OPML enthusiasts happened today in Boston, inspired by Kosso's visit here. I was very happy to just be able to stop by and say hello before dashing off to pick up Rowan from preschool. From left to right: Kosso, Jim Moore, Lisa Williams (that is, me) Bela Labovitch, and Scott Beatty. Stephen Weber has a script that will convert OPML to XOXO and XOXO to OPML. Rick Ellis writes an OPML plugin for the pMachine blog engine. Kevin Burton thinks this is ho-hum, but that's exactly the point -- importing and exporting data from every app and service should be ho-hum, a totally normal and expected experience. Let's get boring! Oops! It looks like Kevin was actually quoting Shel Holtz, who thinks it's ho-hum cause he's had his Expression Engine blog doing OPML, since, ya know, forever. That kind of boring is good too! Amyloo: "My blog has amnesia." OPod: "The OPML-Pod is an AJAX OPML and RSS viewer widget that you can embed in any web page you like." Tony Hirst: "Generate an OPML file (or just a list of feed URLs) for del.icio.us, Simpy, Connotea, CiteULike and/or Scuttle RSS feeds." Oskar van Rijswijk has an OPML directory of many news sources sorted by topic. Tom Morris: "I'm currently on the train, sitting next to a tit who is treating the train like his own private office. I do this, but I do it silently. That is the advantage of blogging and email - it's voice-free communication." A Web 2.0 picture mentions OPML. SuperHanc likes Dave's idea about a desktop webserver: "I hope for a great deal more development in this area because it goes to one of my chief concerns in the Google powered (not to say dominated) Web 2.0 world. That is, I own my stuff. Stuff here is defined as anything that I’ve created, be they words, pictures, audio, music, video, art (profane and otherwise), architecture, movie scripts, novels, novellae, essays, drawings, characatures, cartoons, readings, spoken word rap (for you Futurama fans out there); to paraphrase Justice Stewart, I know what’s mine. This wouldn’t seem like such an issue, but sitting where I am today I see a lot of companies that would like to own what I’ve created. Perhaps they don’t know it yet, but that’s what they (more specifically, the lawyers they employ) want." Right On! It's about freeing OUR data from THEIR software. We love your software, but we want our stuff, thanks very much. No more roach motels! More data freedom: Get your IE Favorites out in OPML. Mike Taulty is test-driving OPML and seeing if he can get it to work in Monad, the command line shell that's shipping with Microsoft Vista. |
Last modified: Friday, October 31, 2008 at 9:25 PM.
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