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John Palfrey: "What Top10 Sources does is to introduce readers who ordinarily don't spend all their time reading blogs into the medium. The idea is to offer a directory of reading lists, available as web pages and as OPML files, as well as a quick synopsis of what each of the chosen sites is saying." Michael Cote: "I'm A Feed Readin' Nutbird: People often joke that the only way to get my attention or tell me about something is to put an item in an RSS feed." Me too. I think there's a little illustratiion for us Feed Readin' Nutbirds in the Audobon Guide now. FeedPile: Feed Sharing for Everyone. This is a bit like Share Your OPML, only it creates a static, bookmarkable page documenting a reading list alongside HTML bookmarks, etc. Adrian is a .NET developer in Indonesia who's been adding OPML to his .NET environment. MaryAnn's disk drive died, but "I found the only thing of value I lost was my OPML. " Where's the safest place for your data -- web based service, or locally? Local storage vs. web storage. MaryAnn's lost OPML brings up a lot of things I've been thiking about lately. I made big moves in the past few years away from third-party services like Blogger because I didn't want to be dependent on someone's service for my data. For a long time, I didn't use Flickr. I like having my data on servers or local computers I own. But lately my local computers have been dying, too. So what's better these days? Put your stuff in the hands of services that might go belly up? Or on hardware that seems increasingly unreliable? Sure, I back up, but restoring everything can take a weekend, and I was hoping to spend time reading the paper with my husband at IHOP, ya know? What's going to maximize the Pancake Factor here? It's a quality of life issue. I would really love it if it ALL apps were like the OPML Editor -- where it saves two copies automatically -- one locally, one to the web. So much safer and saner, and easier to restore! Adam of The Yippie Show has hit on the idea of building his ToledoLinks directory in OPML. Zen Archery wants to be able to store his email filters the way he stores his RSS feeds in OPML. God, me too. Setting up a new computer means redoing all my filters and settings -- wouldn't it be great if those were just an OPML file I could load? Hm? Pharaoh, let my data go! try it one more time see if the text comes out phew! I got it working. I had to start working on OPML Fan from another machine, and I had to remember all my account details and yada yada. Sure is nice to be OPMLblogging again! Word to the wise: don't let your two-year-old get in proximity of both a glass of Diet Coke and your laptop. |
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