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Two major announcements this week for users of the OPML Editor -- a new Windows version and new Mac code, along with instructions for testing. Notes on migrating to the new Windows version, from Dave. Tom Morris' newest essay I recommend to everyone Tom Morris' most recent essay. Taking as a starting point Rebecca Blood's Weblog Handbook, he ranges far to the US as the home of tech visionaries and the media's self-serving interpretation of weblogs. It's worth a few quotes: "We in Britain don't dream about our software. Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Marc Canter, Dave Winer. I'd hazard a guess that they all dream, or at least day dream, about software." Other blog books will tell you how to set yourself up with a Blogger account and teach you exactly what a Trackback is. If you'd bought a book about writing, and it spent the first chapter explaining to you what a pen was and how to use one, then went on to tell you that when you write you start at the left side of the page and progressed to the right hand side, then moved down to the next line, you'd feel a bit, well, swindled. If you listen to the old media, it's the blogging medium's Paris Hilton's who define the medium. There is a symbiotic relationship at work in presenting that view - it softens the real blow that blogging will have on the mainstream media, or at least distracts them from the pain they will start feeling from blogs. Related: Amyloo: "On NPR on my way home this afternoon I heard a report on a liberal bloggers' convention in Vegas. The reporter's expectations were bizarre. Where do these images come from anyway?" Congratulations to Les Orchard and his wife Amy, who got married yesterday. He says: "Also, here’s hoping everything goes off without a hitch, and that the CD of ceremony music I burned this morning doesn’t skip like the one we tried using in the rehearsal last night. Otherwise, ritual suicide will be the only option, and this will be my last post to this blog - unless, of course, XML-RPC works from beyond the grave." Now that's a feature. Les and Amy are taking their honeymoon in the SF Bay area. Have fun! The new version of Top 10 Sources is up! One thing that would be cool for Top 10 is filtering. Excerpts from the RSS feeds of the "sources" appear below the list, and human beings being what they are, they stray from their topic now and again. Personally, I think straying is a good thing for a blog, but maybe not for a list. Peter Williams wants aggregators to make it easier to synchronize his blogroll with his subscription list. He has some ideas on it. Kosso: Gnomedex 6.0 Is So Meta Marshall Kirkpatrick: "I was wrong, eBay blogs aren't stupid." Librarian-blogger Catalogablog: "BlogBridge: Library is a soon-to-be-released product that looks interesting. It is a tool for organizing and presenting RSS feeds. This might be a good way to provide access to news for specialized groups we serve. One for the genealogy folks, another for the bird watchers, another for the anime crowd. For each resource it provides a thumbnail of the page, link, RSS, and an OPML file for the group." Librarians have the opportunity -- and the skills -- to be curators of the internet. |
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