Comments on: Subscriptions are attention, but what about blogrolls? http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/11/27/subscriptions-are-attention-but-what-about-blogrolls It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Adam Lindsay http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/11/27/subscriptions-are-attention-but-what-about-blogrolls/comment-page-1#comment-2834 Adam Lindsay Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:48:40 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=782#comment-2834 <blockquote> <p>My aggregator’s OPML export is private data for interchange between my other aggregators.</p> </blockquote> <p>See, that's where you've lost me. Regardless of OPML's suckiness (yes, I've gazed on it, first hand), export/import interchange formats are precisely the sort of thing to be open standards. I spent many of the prime years of my life working on MPEG, and that, if anything, was my take-home message. The interchange/glue formats are precisely what need to be scrutinised and kept in public view.</p> <p>Is OPML good for anything else? Not really. Should it be promoted for all one's outlining needs? Not really. Does XOXO have an easy time of gaining mindshare, considering most people's miniscule outlining needs? Not really.</p>

My aggregator’s OPML export is private data for interchange between my other aggregators.

See, that’s where you’ve lost me. Regardless of OPML’s suckiness (yes, I’ve gazed on it, first hand), export/import interchange formats are precisely the sort of thing to be open standards. I spent many of the prime years of my life working on MPEG, and that, if anything, was my take-home message. The interchange/glue formats are precisely what need to be scrutinised and kept in public view.

Is OPML good for anything else? Not really. Should it be promoted for all one’s outlining needs? Not really. Does XOXO have an easy time of gaining mindshare, considering most people’s miniscule outlining needs? Not really.

]]> By: Aristotle Pagaltzis http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/11/27/subscriptions-are-attention-but-what-about-blogrolls/comment-page-1#comment-2830 Aristotle Pagaltzis Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:37:59 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=782#comment-2830 <p>Check out <a href="http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/" rel="nofollow">Uche Ogbuji</a>'s pertinent posts:</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2005-11-14/I_already_" rel="nofollow">I already said OPML is crap, right? I had to hack through another reminder today.</a></li> <li><a href="http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2005-11-15/I_must_be_" rel="nofollow">I must be missing something about XOXO (and maybe microformats in general)</a></li> <li><a href="http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2005-11-16/Does_it_co" rel="nofollow">XOXO versus Atom versus XBEL for Web feed lists?</a></li> </ol> Check out Uche Ogbuji’s pertinent posts:

  1. I already said OPML is crap, right? I had to hack through another reminder today.
  2. I must be missing something about XOXO (and maybe microformats in general)
  3. XOXO versus Atom versus XBEL for Web feed lists?
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