Monthly Archives: February 2006

The OPML Editor means Getting Things Blogged

Lisa Williams points to OPML blogging bewilderment from authors of a desktop blogging client, Qumana. I compared the OPML Editor to a cavitating torpedo. It’s just fast and uncomplicated – it’s light on formatting features, but that itself is a feature. I type, and save, and I’m published. I could post [...]

More on the blogosphere as a tuple space

On introducing people to blogging, Dave wrote: Then someday, when you’re in the shower or lying in bed in the morning and get an idea that you wish you could tell everyone, remember that you have a blog, and go to [...]

Tweaked the squelch on my outboard brains

I know I’ve initiated a slew of potential projects since I began playing with the OPML Editor, though I won’t be able to do much in depth for a little while. I’m mostly queueing up work for myself after I finish this book, and hoping that a few of these leads get stolen by [...]

Galactic busboy

There’s a scene in Stargate Atlantis tonight, where there’s a busboy clearing a table in the canteen. What’s it got to be like to be a busboy in another galaxy? Like, not a soldier or a researcher – just a busboy.

Just say no to validation porn, says Ben

Ben Hammersley says, about his switch from Movable Type to iWeb: “I’m using iWeb, and I like it. There I admitted it. Forgive me, web purists, but this is really nice. … The whole thing is frictionless – and frictionless tools are what I want this year.” This is the feeling I got from [...]

Instant Outline as .plan

I’ve just created a new page using Dan MacTough’s OPMLRenderer plugin for WordPress to publish a .plan outline managed via OPML Editor.

.plan

What’s this page? In the ancient past and still today, UNIX users have made .plan files available via the finger protocol. This page is my attempt to provide something with similar intentions, mashed up with Instant Outlining, presented by way of Dan MacTough’s OPMLRenderer plugin for WordPress. If you’re using the OPML Editor, you can subscribe [...]

OPML to XOXO to Technorati Favorites

The import page for Technorati Favorites mentions that it supports XOXO as a format along with OPML. Cool! I’m a known XOXO lover. So, I tried importing my OPML “amusements” reading list as an XOXO outline. I used the XSL transformation I mentioned a few weeks ago, tweaked to follow some [...]