There are OPML happenings with my site FreethoughtFilter. Watch for news!
My head is swimming with exciting ideas for these directories. The fantastic thing about them is that as I build one, it’s not a project in and of itself, but it’s a kickstart for a thousand projects; it’s laying the ground work for a hundred new buildings. But, as we’ve seen recently, the thing which is most important is to get the grounding absolutely right - pure and without mistakes. The OPML Community (and I use that word reluctantly) could build something fantastic. Look at what indiepodder.org have achieved. They’ve got some silly top-level categories on there - why Trucking and Tequila? - but also some good ones - Philosophy and Religion are seperate, and it annoys me quite a lot when they are together. Then there are some messed up things. In Politics, there should really be some separation by country and political affiliation. This has the advantage that the people of that persuasion can form a community around those podcasts (or blogs or websites in another instance). Why do I use that word community in these contexts? Well, simple. Though I’ve said I don’t like the word, I’m lying. I do like the word. I just think it’s used inappropriately most of the time. There is no “listener community” or “gay community” or “black community”. But the software we’ve got here can help us build real communities!
That GoyFire white nationalist podcast (I refrain from linking, my dears) is now describing itself thusly: “Listen to the podcast that has been censored by Adam Curry”. Adam Curry did not censor GoyFire. He expressed concern and played other’s concern on the DSC but did not censor, and spent a few days discussing it. He left it up to the conscience of the Politics noder on the indiepodder directory which is why it’s still listed. If expressing concern and discussing what should be done is censorship, then everybody’s a damn censor. I guess it’s in the nature of a site like that to play up every ounce of discussion in to a pound of controversy.
I’m off to walk the dogs and ponder OPML.
I’ve set an RSS feed up for Dave’s podcasts about OPML using Odeo.
I’m experimenting with iJot. I’m not sure about it at the moment. It might be useful for the people who could contribute to the Directory. It’s rather confusing when compared with the OPML Editor.
Hil: “I wonder if there is any way at the moment to amalgamate the collapse/expand, distributed data entry and other cool things of OPML, and the multiple layers and multiple tag sorting of del.icio.us? It has to happen, don’t you think?” Indeed.
There are certain documents that you need to read on paper to digest. Dave’s announcement of OPML from back in 2000 is one of those things. Since I’m devoting a large chunk of my ‘brain capital’ to building stuff with OPML, and spending probably 40-50% of my time in the OPML Editor, it seems sensible to have that on my Real Life Shelf rather than my Online Shelf.
Yes, OPML is exciting.
My Synergy isn’t working quite right. It does KM, but doesn’t do Clipboard sharing. I’ve set up a joint IRC channel where both computers are, and use that as a pasteboard.
We can see you Adam Curry!
Lisa Willliams: “Wisdom is knowing when to write a new outline… For a complex subject, handing a person a laundry bag of ideas, materials, and tools isn’t enough; you need to pass on information on how these fit together, and sometimes, the order in which they should be used.” More simply, there’s nothing wrong with authority if you can question it. There’s everything wrong with authority if you can’t. OPML allows you to question my authority most directly by taking what I’ve done and repurposing it in the same way that a hyperlink does.
I’m just watching Outfoxed. It’s very interesting.
