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Cowhand: "I can't tell you how easy it is to blog a conference with the OPML Editor." Cowhand! Come to my panel! I agree with Cowhand -- the OPML Editor is the best liveblogging platform I've ever used. Feedsfarm shows items from people's feeds, but introduces links in the content that the author didn't create. That's not cool. Migs Paraz: "Another possible use of OPML is for memetracker export. I commented in Kevin Burton’s post that we need a microformat so any metaggregators doing metasearch and mashups could get a hold of the data. OPML could do, though the items there are an unordered set, and nesting OPML inside OPML is currently not specced." Right on. Services like digg or memeorandum shouldn't be roach motels (your data goes in, but doesn't come back out) Anybody have an answer to his nesting question? Would it work, even if it is not formally part of the spec? Seems like it would. Sounds like a profile to me. Peta: "OPML is my latest toy." Fun for the whole family! Bitty OPML Browser Scott Matthews writes in and says: I'm responsible for Bitty Browser and I'm writing because I've found the OPML stuff to be especially fun. If you do take a look at that Bitty home page, you'll see that the lead example is the CNET Blog 100 via OPML -- note that you can drill down and read the contents without leaving the "containing" web page. The idea is that you can add Bitty to any Web page, or to services like your Google home page. For example, you might think of it as a "navigable blogroll." BillyG calls Bitty "picture in picture" for your browser." An aside about del.icio.us It's not possible to link to an individual bookmark, and the author's comments about that bookmark. I get a lot of utility out of subscribing to the OPML tag on del.icio.us, and sometimes the one-line descriptions are funny and/or useful. It'd be nice to be able to link to them. PS. Could be completely wrong about this. If there is a way, hip me to it. Ed Vielmetti has an OPML blog. Subscribed! Library people rock. Donovan Watts: "the unremitting demand of sleep is taking hold. what can be done? do i give in? do i push onward, through this sleepless (dare i say, sleepless in redmond?) haze? i hear andy warhol and his gang of misfits would stay up for days. sounds like fun." N.B., they had serious drugs, though. Grant Holliday: "Readify OPML now validates." Tom Morris: I've had one of those days. I've been vomiting since six o'clock this morning, my muscles are all tensed up and I'm having difficulty moving anywhere. Zettelkasten has a picture of a guy who built a little skateboard-like thing he can sit on, except the bottom rolls along one rail of the streetcar rails in his town. SXSW: Respect Your ElderBloggers Ronni Bennett, Time Goes By Lori Bitter, JWT (Research into marketing to people over 40) Why I'm at this session: I like listening to bloggers older than I am. They help me figure out to grow up, and also that what's happening to me now isn't rare or new (which isn't something I'm going to get by reading almost anything else) Lori: "We really don't have enough formal caregivers to take care of us [baby boomers] -- we didn't have enough children Ronni: Starting in my mid 50's, I started to wonder what it would be like to get older...I started to do research...but all the writing was about declining ability and disease. And I thought there had to be more than that. I've been blogging for two years, and I've come to believe that technology and online communications will revolutionize old age. "If at sixty you are unsung, sing; if you are unflung, fling." That's what blogging did for me. I was unsung, and now I'm singing. You have to be over 50 to get on my blogroll. (Maybe I could make a reading list!) Letter from "Mary," daughter in law of 84 year old blogger. She has grown more childish, if insisting that she be listened to instead of patronizing her is childish. I'd rather see that, than the road she was heading down before she took up blogging...it turns out she had been sedated for years...and she didn't have an audience around all the time, and she was wearing me out...then we discovered the blogworld. Aging leads to isolation, which leads to depression, which leads to mental decline -- I don't want to be an evangelist, but I really believe that blogging can help with this Study: "The brain of the blogger"
Mobility issues for elders often compound their isolation. Elders will tell you that the best thing about blogging is the friendships that you make. People share secrets they can't tell anyone else, and the friendships they form are surprisingly intimate, in opposition to the media stereotype that the internet is not "real" interaction. Every year when I went back to school, we lost a few kids -- from polio, from diptheria, from whooping cough. Our lives are so much healthier yougner, and we live so much longer, that a lot of healthcare dollars get shoved into the last few years of life...1% of US physicians are board-certified geriatricians. I have an idea: What if we could get a computer in every elder's home? Right now we've got large numbers of people who have never used computers before. I'd like to compare this to the computers in school program that President Clinton started. Lori: "People don't want to retire at 60 or 65, or some arbitrary number set in the 1930's. We ask them when they're going to retire, and they say, "We're not." People might change jobs and do nonprofit work, or stay at their own jobs because they like it and/or they have access to benefits, or need the money. Lori: It was so easy to rally around children and computing, and the digital divide, and it's much harder to start that rallying around elders. If an elder can't afford a computer, the only place they can go to is the public library. Foot mice, and big-key keyboards, for people who have arthritic problems -- but they're expensive Ronni: in a study, 5 to 8 year olds did a better job teaching elders how to use a computer than teens did, because there's a natural connection between very young children and elders. My comment: elders and children have something in common, which is that they often get hand-me-down equipment, but my feeling is that as learners, they should be getting the best equipment, and we should be getting their hand-me-downs. (Smaller kids and elders also have pretty frustrating lives, it's hard to do stuff, often they feel that they are or really are not in control of things. So frustration tolerance is a big deal in learning, because the learners are coming to the experience with a very high frustration load." Marshall Bowen, Atlantic Monthly -- We're very interested in this question. The readers of the magazine are elders. Seniornet -- which gets a lot of funding from eBay, because eBay has a lot of attraction to elders, and eBay realizes this. "Ageless design," When you design for elders, it's a better product for everybody -- cleaner, more efficient, easy to learn to use. Author David Wolff talks a lot about storytelling and how compelling that becomes as we age. This is a great panel, but I'm running out of battery life. Elisa Camahort: We're also getting all those stories, we'll have a history of what that time period was like, so it's a social good. This session is part of the "BlogHer Track," a series of discussions developed by BlogHer for SXSW. |
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