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Something new

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Something new

: Dave Winer is working on an OPML editor. Frankly, I’m not smart enough to figure out exactly what it is or what it means. But when Dave is digging in like this, you can bet there’s a truffle to be found. His explanation:

So you can use the OPML Editor to open and edit subscription

lists for all the major feed readers and aggregators, tune them up, merge

them and split them, publish and share them. Finally, there’s a rational way

to edit the subscription lists.

OPML has also become the standard format for the podcasting directories. All

the nodes in the community directory are edited in OPML, many of them by

hand. Now there’s a tool that’s designed for exactly this purpose.

The OPML Editor is good for all kinds of lists, directories, project

planning, designs. The tool can be used by professionals and managers,

doctors, professors, lawyers, accountants, writers — basically anyone who

thinks for a living.

Another way of looking at it — RSS is great for news, but not everything is

news, some things, like the distance between the Earth and the Sun, or the

elements of the periodic table, don’t change. Or change slowly, like the

teams in major league baseball, or the top home run hitters. For information

like that, knowledge, representing the relationships between nuggets is

what’s important, and that’s where outliners like the OPML Editor, that’s

now in beta, excel.

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    The Oklatexan

    Dear fellow bloggers,
    I am creating an urgent call to attack Rick Santorum. We all know he is one of the most despicable people in D.C., lets get the facts out. Everything I list can easily be found. Cite your own sources.
    Talking Points:
    1. Proposed a bill that would eliminate National Weather Service for the public. Insted it would’ve made the NWS send its information to private weather services. The timing of this bill was questioned when everyone found out Accuweather had donated to his campaign.
    2. Scams public schools on tuition for his children. (Penn Hills School District)
    3. Received contributions while in Florida helping the Schiavo family. The media was told it was an event scheduled months beforehand, untrue.
    4. Compared Democrats to Nazi’s
    5. Rick Santorum proposed the Santorum Amendment at an attempt to abolish the teaching of evolution. A good cheapshot here is that it is narcissistic to name a bill after yourself.