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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!
