Mea Culpa
Remember my idea of a Start Menu-based newsfeed parser? I'm sure countless software developers are feverishly working on one – but Dave was the first one to cross the finish line, and I hadn't said anything about it until now. So, here's a very public THANK YOU to the guy who has made my world easier to deal with on a daily basis. I couldn't get my OPML file to import, but Scoble let me borrow his. Looks like NewsGator isn't 1.1 compliant. Does anybody have a simple conversion tool for me? Regardless, consider my subscription to Radio renewed, and my faith in Winer's ability to deliver usable features completely renewed.
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10 Comments
Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 2:19pm
I do't use Radio, but NewsDesk, a free program has always showed up in my start menu. I know I've got to be missing something??? Will the parser allow non RSS, XML to be loaded in NewsDesk?
Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 2:28pm
Chris – NewsGator certainly does generate valid OPML; the problem is, the OPML spec is not clear on a couple of things. In particular, there is one attribute (xmlurl or xmlUrl) that Radio and NewsGator differ on.
Since Radio unfortunately can't import a OPML file with xmlurl, use a text editor to change all instances of “xmlurl” to “xmlUrl”, and Radio shouldn't barf.
Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 2:34pm
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Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 2:49pm
I see your wearing clothes today. thank you.
Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 2:54pm
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Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 4:10pm
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Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 4:11pm
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Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 4:19pm
I just tried out radio this weekend. I found it easy to install and I was blogging in no time flat. My hacking to add graphics to my posts caused the program to lose the edit box and I had to reinstall radio last night. What is OPML? Yikes, another acronym I have to look up and remember. Whats with the peach fuzz Chris?
Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 6:45pm
OPML is “Outline Processor Markup Language” This link told me more than I needed to know:
http://www.netcrucible.com/xslt/opml.html
Happy Daylight Savings Time! :~>
Anonymous
April 6th, 2003
at 9:11pm
I don't remember your idea…any chance of a link?