Hmm, that Dave has those tools to build on must be useful, but I’m sure there are equivalents in the rest of the open source world. But it is interesting that Dave has this stack of (moderately) his own making: XML/RPC, OPML, RSS 2.0, Frontier/Manilla and whatever its scripting language is called. So in a way every one of his new developments is an addition to his own world, before it’s an addition to the world at large. I could imagine that being pretty motivational.

Dunno, or maybe it’s simply the time and enthusiasm bit that makes the difference. Like Les I’ve got plenty in my in-tray already, and when I’ve got time of my own making a decent standards-based outliner is low on the list, even though it’d be very nice to have.

Dave, having provided a good-quality weblog authoring tool and aggregator on the same integrated platform, is in a position to leverage new ideas more easily than everyone making their own little custom tools that never get integrated easily into WordPress or Bloglines.

Or am I missing something?