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Ben Barren points to TechTalkBlogs, an OPML-driven community of tech blogs in Australia. OUsefulInfo: "This simple generator will create a URL for a Del.icio.us OPML Reading List." Nifty. Now you can bookmark a bunch of RSS feeds in del.icio.us, and use the results as a readinglist that you can change by adding or deleting bookmarks on del.icio.us. Offline Editors are from Mars, The OPML Editor is from Venus The folks at Qumana confess they don't understand how something like the OPML Editor is different from an offline blog editor -- like Qumana or ecto. Hi, guys! Have you actually downloaded and tried the OPML Editor? You Should! This Editor is tasty, and this editor is Good! (Sorry, I've been reading too much Dr. Seuss to my kids). You guys are pretty smart, so if you drove it around for a little while I think you'd grasp very quickly how the OPML Editor is getting at something very different than what most blog editors are trying to do, offline or on. It's not based on the email/word processor paradigm which assumes that each document will be a standalone file unrelated to all the others.You see all the day's posts on a single page. You get a new entry by hitting "Return," and there's literally no wait to publish or save. It's like hitting return in a text editor, you're just on the next line and keep typing. Also, you can drag and drop your entries into some pleasing and logical order. It is an offline editor, but it's not offline for the purpose of making a big WYSIWYG GUI by leveraging the ability to make rich clients on the desktop, or linking to umpty-ump blog platforms, so you shouldn't expect it to look like Qumana or Ecto, or assume that what you're seeing is "a bad offline editor" because it doesn't have a lot of buttons (not that you would). It's really just a different kind of thing -- but driving it around might be an interesting experience for developers like yourselves, and spark ideas for your own stuff. I hope you find it fruitful! It's also the case that blog editing is really just an example application for the OPML Editor, which can do lots of things: it can be used as an outliner, a way to make lightweight, distributed directories on the web, or OPML Reading Lists which allow dynamic management of groups of RSS feeds. Jeremy Zawodny: Data Belongs to Those That Create It. That's right. Can you imagine where we would be without RSS and OPML in terms of being able to port our own data? RSS is one of the main ways you can port your blog from one blog platform to another, and OPML the main way to move your RSS subscriptions. What if there were none? Do you really think the vendors would all bother to do the work to make it easy for you to leave? I don't. |
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