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I can't wait to find out what Dave is teasing us about. OPML is basically a way to capture an outline in XML. It's really a lot more than that, but that's it in a nutshell. There's even a spec, of course.
9:39:24 PM #
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New Feature: Titles and Links in Radio-generated RSS. [Scripting News]
Hey. That's my idea. Well, I'm sure Dave already thought of it. He doesn't need me for ideas, of course. But I did suggest it in a comment on Jonathon Delacour's weblog. I'm morally opposed to the idea, as it encourages RSS. But I've got it turned on right now to see how it works. Apparently, Dave isn't happy with it, so he's going to work on it. The problem is you don't have good control over the look of the title in your post.
3:15:07 PM #
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Burningbird asks:
"Well, now. Do you think that Dave is talking about the recent RSS posts from myself, Jonathon Delacour, and Jon Udell when he writes the following under the title of Meta-Blogging:
Aggregation: Is goodness. Think of it as a way of upping the bandwidth of people whose minds are sponges and want to learn as much as possible. In time of crisis think of it as the Web's Emergency Broadcast System."
Yes. I thought that's what he was referring to when I saw it on Scripting News. I think sometimes Dave speaks directly to the weblog community and if you aren't reading weblogs you won't always get what he's talking about.
11:55:57 AM #
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Things are really getting out of hand. My page is now at 26 on the rankings by page-reads top 100. Clearly, I now own the "Sony Barari" search at Google. What gives? Oh. I get it. Every time I put that name in another post, I'm adding fuel to the fire.
11:42:19 AM #
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Jonathon Delacour has an excellent summary of an RSS discussion that occurred across weblogs and in his comments yesterday. He has a quote Burningbird that I forgot to mention in my previous post on her piece: hyperlinking is the best technology yet invented for webloggers to create community. Much better than RSS and meaningless statistics.
9:56:08 AM #
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OK. Who the heck is this "Sony Barari" person. I just clicked on my referers link to find many Ranking by Page-Reads top 100. It is, of course, a meaningless statistic. And after a few days things will quiet down and I'm sure I'll fall of the list. But it's kinda weird.
9:37:35 AM #
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OK. I admit it. I played games with the Ranking by Page-Reads. At midnight all of the referers stats for a Radio site are cleared and the Rankings page is cleared as well. So there are, like, three pages on the list. And mine is number two! Woohoo. Well, not quite. I, he says sheepishly, clicked on my own links enough times to get there. Ok. I'm sorry I did it. It's just, well, I'll never be number two on that list. I just wanted to see what it was like. I won't do it again. I promise. And this is right after reading Burningbird's great piece on why statistics like that probably aren't such a great thing. Or maybe I'm proving her point. Yeah. That's it. It's like performance art. I was "making a point".
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Will Leshner.
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