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Just put on your XOXO-colored glasses
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A couple of years ago, I said "Put on your RSS-colored glasses and forget about Atom." (Wow, has it been that long?) Well, right now I'm saying this: Put on your XOXO-colored glasses and forget about OPML.
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Here's an outline snagged from my OPML blog today:
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Now, here's that outline in some semblance of XOXO:
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Here's the XSLT that I used to transform from OPML to XOXO:
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And, here's the mod_rewrite chicanery I threw together to facilitate this:
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I think my XSLT could use some work to better conform to XOXO, and I still need to find a non-CGI-based URL-line XSLT processor for around here, but this seems like it might be a way to provide XOXO-colored glasses to visitors who don't like the cut of my OPML. Does anyone have an RDF-based outline format for me to use? I could throw that in, too.
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Is there anything I'm missing here that makes this idea suck completely?
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I was chatting briefly with Ed last night about chatbots and Jabber. And, apropos my recent enthusiasm for the OPML Editor platform, it's just come back to me: Frontier and Radio UserLand have support for instant messaging via AIM and Jabber. I wonder how up-to-date that support is in the OPML Editor? It's like 2002 all over again.
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Living in the OPML Editor
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The OPML Editor has now supplanted both Tinderbox and Ecto for idea management and publishing on my PowerBook. Speaking as an avowed neophile, who knows if this will be a permanent change, but it's looking pretty interesting so far.
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I'm wondering if I'll miss the more advanced visualization tools in Tinderbox. I never quite got into the export features, beyond converting my notes into XOXO and OPML. And, I always stopped short of truly "living" within the powerful agents and structured data facilities of Tinderbox. I'm not sure if it was a reluctance to develop a dependency on something not Open Source, or what. Tinderbox is nonetheless a powerful and rich tool.
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And as for Ecto, it has wonderful features for managing existing entries and has a great preview window - but I can publish to my OPML blog so fast that I never need preview, and I if I actually need to manage existing entries I can either edit the OPML or go to my WordPress administration screens.
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I also realize that I never quite "lived" in Radio UserLand, back when I was heavily using it. I never did much with outlines in it, mostly using it as a news aggregator and a quirky hacking environment. Not that the same parts are cobbled together as an idea management and publishing system called OPML Editor, the perspective changes a bit for me.
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The OPML Editor is Open Source
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Dave says: "I'm starting to get a new release of the OPML Editor together, as part of the release I asked Andre Radke to prepare a download for the kernel source. The OPML Editor is an open source app, licensed under the GPL."
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I can certainly attest to the fact that the OPML Editor is Open Source, and not vapor or a mirage of any kind. In fact, I'm writing this on version 10.1a6 that I compiled myself with Apple's Xcode from a SourceForge CVS check-out. It's a serious effort to have made it this easy. I didn't have to tweak or coax anything - I just clicked on the Build hammer.
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And, to expand on what I said earlier this week: The OPML Editor and Frontier Kernel is an Open Source release of a project with a decade or more of legacy as a commercial product - yet, it still compiles into a useful application and runs without much fuss. That was the big thing that Mozilla missed when it was first released as Open Source. This is exciting stuff and a hard thing to have accomplished, me thinks.
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A few years ago, maybe back around 1998, I lost my college class ring at a KMFDM/PIG concert in Detroit. I was sweaty, there were bodies slamming around, I was pushing bodies away from me, and after one push my ring was gone. Crap. Yesterday, though, I received the ring in a package. Someone had found it after the concert back then and was finally able to find me online to tell me about it. How's that for cool?