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A few folks on the OPML Newbies list have been asking whether the OPML Editor works with Firefox on the Mac. It does, here's how! Amyloo has a great idea: using subscribable outlines to have an up-to-date phone directory at a workplace (or anywhere else). Turnabout's fair play: Ken Thompson notes that RateMyProfessors.com now has a twin: RateMyStudents.com. Station Identification OPML Fan tracks developments in OPML developments and services, and points to notable quotables from blogs in the blogs.opml.org community, as well as other OPML Community Servers that ping changes.opml.org If you've started a blog with the OPML Editor, or you have a new OPML plugin, app, hack, or online service, please feel free to drop me a line. I'd love to read your blog or let people know about your new gadget. Feel free to email me at lisa AT cadence90 d0t c0m (Sorry for the 133t, I'm trying to foil the evil spambots. Dave: Three Ways To View The Web There are three useful ways to view the Web: 1. Search. 2. Hierarchy. 3. Google is the best at Search. It's weak at hierarchy (like everyone else). And it has nothing for time. (Weblog archives and Archive.Org are the two best approaches to time so far.) If we approach hierarchy at the microcontent level, instead of trying to create uber-directories, which clearly don't work, we'll nail problem #2. Like Engadget? Then read creator Phil Torrone's feeds. Robin Lu, a software developer in Beijing, has an outline of his friends. Video of Dave Winer's keynote at Gnomedex -- which featured an OPML Editor demo -- is up on Hive. Pito Salas has a screencast showing how to use Reading Lists in BlogBridge -- he even uses the Top 10 Sources reading lists as a demo. Daily Screencast has a screencast of OPML Manager. Social Bookmarking OPML Generator will create an OPML file tags associated with any keyword on a wide variety of social bookmarking systems including del.icio.us and CiteULike Kosso has a download that lets you add an "Add Feed" item to your right-click menu in the OPML editor. Josh: "So I'm rapidly growing to enjoy what I've decided is the OPML editor's nicest feature: saving a file automatically uploads the whole damn thing to a web site. No manual exporting, no setting up cron and rsync or ftp, no wget, no worrying quite so much about the distinction between local editing and remote updating—they're kind of the same thing. This is not a trivial illusion to pull off, and I'm very impressed. " Not only that, you automatically have a local backup. Server dies? You haven't lost anything. How many things do we use that do that? Not too durn many. mvblogosphere: "mvblogosphere is an attempt to track, map and analyze the exponentially growing maldivian blogopsphere, in order to draw a larger portrait of the social, cultural, political and economic structures it represent." They're making an OPML directory. Will the Maldives be the first OPML-enabled nation? Jody Ashenhurst: "Hello World! Thus begins this weblog. I'm pretty confused about how OPML works, but I'm game. I think." Hi, Jody! Randy Morin has posted A Guide to OPML Attributes. I don't have the technical chops to evaluate this, what do you developers think of it? Useful? Andy Moe: "OK. I have a little hello world ajax application working in the OPML editor. When you click on the "Ajax Request" button in the index page it calls a page called echo. To be useful echo needs to return a text fragment or xml instead of a whole web page. I will do some more digging but if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be really cool." Tom Morris: "Dave Winer explains what Reading Lists are going to do. I hate to hype technology but it looks like they're going to make you sexier, better looking and turn you in to a millionaire." Tom forgot, they cure the common cold, too ;-> |
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