My shared feeds
It’s truly gratifying to see the re-launch of the Share Your OPML site. I joined the original SYO site (http://feeds.scripting.com, which now redirects to http://share.opml.org) late in it’s lifetime, after much of its vibrancy had faded, but it was nevertheless a fascinating excercise. At the time I was new to subscriptions […]

Alex Barnett:The middleman won’t go away, he’ll just move.
referencing this by Matt Terenzio (who’s been active in the OPML Editor community recently as well)
Good points from both Matt and Alex in this interchange.
I see Matt’s point that eventually we’re going to be pushing all of this stuff out to the edges and that connections between […]

Alex Barnett pointed to Nick Bradubury’s vision for attention data in OPML. As might be expected, I’m not sure how much I agree with what Nick proposes. My objections, though, have nothing to do with OPML as a potential format, for attention data or anything else. I think OPML’s grand, and it […]

Assuming that memeorandum provides value (and I think it does as a component of an overall view of the web, not as a sole view of the web), there’s an aspect of memeorandum that I find lacking, and that’s an addressable history. Gabe provides the ability to go and see what tech.memeorandum.com looked like […]

UPDATE: Steve Jensen brings up a good point in his post - that all instances of user_login ($args[1]) and user_password ($ars[2]) need to be trimmed in order for other method calls (like “edit”) to succeed. xmlrpc.php.txt has been updated.
As long as you’re able to replace files on your WordPress install, my hack will fix […]

From (parenthetical):
See my conversation with Dave starting here.
When I step through the code I get what appears to be a valid xmlrpc method call over http, but my xmlrpc log file looks munged. If there’s anyone around who uses a WordPress 1.5+ blog and the OPML Editor and woud be willing to try a […]

I’ve been looking more closely at the SSE announcement since it came out; the next few posts are likely to be about this, and some (like this one) fairly (ok, very) long, so be forewarned….
After reading through the spec and accompanying FAQ, I started rifling through the commentary thread at memeorandum.1  Alex Barnett already has […]

Love this:
The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating appsXML Developer Center: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML
From my 10 minute lookover of this, I’m pretty excited.  I don’t have time to completely grok the usage or to look for holes right now, but I’d […]

It was great to see Nick Bradbury start to talk about the same idea I was talking about earlier; a discussion about the attributes of attention we’d like to see collected:
“What I propose is that aggregator users and developers have an open discussion about what specific attention data could (and should) be collected by aggregators.”
Nick […]

Close on the heels of my previous post about attention data formats (though certainly not prompted by it), Alex Barnett and Kevin Burton post a podcast (mp3) about, in part, OPML as attention data.
There’s some good stuff in there, not least the discussion of TailRank, which is the first attention-ranked content engine I’ve seen. […]