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When RSS first hit the web, no one really knew about it. It started to become a little more popular as more people started to post content. All these blog platforms started to publish these syndicated feeds. I give full credit to Dave Winer. If it weren’t for Dave, RSS and Blogging wouldn’t even exist in my mind.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – OPML – Outline Processor Markup Language – has been floating around for a few years now, but what is it and how do you edit those files?

Essentially OPML is a type of XML document which was designed to help you organize data in an outline fashion, rather than maintaining all of the data in one big messy chunk, making it easier to transfer information back and forth betweens ervices.

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From Rickie Dickie, a passionate OPMLer - pointing out that grazr makes TagJag OPML much more usable on-demand:

Here's a TagJag / grazr mashup smart bookmarklet for Firefox (right-click and add this link to your Bookmarks). Written as a smartlet - but JUST in case you don't know what that is, you name the bookmark keyword to something like "tags" and then in the address bar type "tags gnomedex" to browse TagJag's OPML for that keyword in grazr. I posted HTML embedding script; check out grazr's site for particulars.

The equiv favelet (bookmarklet) for either IE or Firefox would be something like this:

This favelet is written to work like this:

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OPML is great - and for feed organization, it's equally awesome. Just about every news aggregator supports importing and exporting OPML, but there hasn't yet emerged an OPML icon design that is equally as appealing as the "standard" feed icon set forth by Firefox and subsequently adopted by the industry. In working with information architects on TagJag, we decided to dedicate some cycles to designing an OPML icon for use on the site:

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I've had a few people ask me what to tag their posts as for Gnomedex. I say (and have always said) just tag things "Gnomedex" and leave it at that. If you wanna get fancy, you can also do Gnomedex6, Gnomedex06, Gnomedex2006, or SirNotAppearingInThisFilm. For maximum flash efficiency, stick with "Gnomedex" and call it a day. The only other tag we'd like to recommend is "GnomedexDiscussion" - for the times when you'd like to make a comment on something that's being said at the conference - specifically when we run out of time for a discussion on-site. If you want to watch what's happening with any of the keywords, you can import any of the following into your news aggregator from TagJag:

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I love our community. From Eric'o'theque, Gnomedex Outlook Contacts from the Gnomedex OPML. It doesn't work with Outlook 2000, though:

Here's something interesting for the other attendees: Chris released the OPML of the folks registered for Gnomedex. Dave pointed to a directory listing web page created out of the OPML. Over the weekend and a few recent late nights, I ran a script to get the OPML into Outlook as contacts and then decided to put snapshots of the various speakers into the contact cards, along with throwing in categories for Gnomedex and Gnomedex-Speaker.

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Dave Winer just released The DocNography Tool Howto, after a successful round at BloggerCon. Great minds think alike! While we won't be using the OPML Editor for our mind mapping management, we will be using MindJet MindManager - projecting it onto a screen at the front of the room, and then making the files availble for anybody to download and view. It's really too bad that MindManager doesn't export OPML quite yet. I first fell in love with the idea back when I saw Marc Orchant put it into play at the original MSN Search Champs summit. He took our groups ideas and transformed them into a visually stunning, organized cloud of information.

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We've got a single OPML file containing the links and feeds of every 2006 Gnomedexer, thanks to the code sleuthing of Kosso. This is good for importing "everybody" en masse into your news aggregator. However, it's not always as efficient as a single feed. So, Shayne whipped out a 400-line script to convert OPML to RSS - and I think we're going to call it "KissMyOPML" for fun. The PHP script will be open source, available for everybody soon, and is also a sign of things to come in the near future with Gada.be (which will mash feeds faster than the average install). Remember, Gada.be outputs OPML for every search query; think about it. You can subscribe to the Gnomedexer feed immediately - and if your name isn't listed in the conference attendee OPML, please let us know ASAP so we can get the proper information in there.

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Don't expect every one of these searches to yeild results, though. The output was generated by a single OPML file and the Optimal OPML WordPress Plugin. Looking for other easy ways to display the OPML from Gada.be right now. Hell, entirely new sites could be built on top of the OPML we produce - much like RSS, it's a poor man's API.

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I listen to KUOW in my car all the time. If the dial isn't tuned in to NPR, the radio simply isn't on. I can't tell you how many times I've taken extra laps around the block just so I could listen to a full broadcast. Last Thursday, I heard a great segment on the origins of marriage (What is a Traditional Marriage) - I wanted Ponzi to hear it, too. That's when I remembred: NPR has podcasts! And let's face it - NPR owns the podcast space. I'd give my left nut to have a show on NPR (and my left nut is slightly more valuable than my right nut, FWIW). The problem is that NPR has over 300 podcasts as of today, making them impossible to manage and subscribe to en masse. So, I'm asking the NPR gods: please give us a single, permanent OPML URL? You can keep the same dichotomy, just put in a more transportable / importable format. If the NPR OPML is always at the same URL, we can always have the latest set of NPR shows a finger-click away. And if you already have a master OPML for NPR, why haven't you linked to it from your podcast page?

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I needed to do this sooner or later, so I've revamped our About page with the following sections, outlining Gada.be cases for eight types of users: Enthusiast, Mobile, Developer, Business, Casual, Researcher, Jobseeker, and Shopper. I'd consider this a comprehensive list, but I'm sure there are a few usage points and user types I missed. The About page also now includes an extensive list of Gada.be's resounding credibility in the blogosphere. The reasons for pointing out our supportive features will become evident to you in the Gnomedex timeframe. Do you have a usage case for Gada.be? Read more on Is Gada.be for You?...