Thursday, March 28, 2002|
So, if anyone watched The West Wing last night, don't get your hopes up. http://www.lemonlyman.com is a dead link, although Warner Brothers DID register the name on February 19th of this year. Too bad. I hope they do something with it. 10:43:00 AM  comments () trackback []
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One of the cool things about the instant outliner is that the outlines you create can have nodetypes associated with them. Right now it's common to use "link" nodetypes, those are the nodes with the upward pointing arrows. I've also seen RSS nodes (the little newspapers) and (think recursively now) other outliner buddy nodes. In my instant outline, I've got a link node that points to a special place -- it's my Zope installation, which has a method that is somewhat similar to the Python method I posted a week or so back -- if you double click on the link, you can look through the object structure of that Zope installation. It's pretty empty, but it's still interesting. The implication is that if you have the right nodetypes installed, and if the handlers are written correctly, you could distribute almost anything with an outline. Any application could have an OPML front end that couples with specially written nodetypes to provide a distributed way of interacting with that application. This is currently how managing a Manila installation through Radio works, and I've already seen people embedding the Manila discussion group nodes in their outlines.
As a bootstrap, it's a fantastic worgroup tool. But by leveraging the
potential of OPML and Radio/Frontier, it could be so much more. |
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