OPML the new CSV file?
So far, as a developer, I haven’t seen anything in OPML that I can’t do with a flat text file. OPML defines a few VERY generic tags, but all of the examples that Dave provides at the spec site include very problem domain specific attributes and tags in the generic
Everything in the spec from “expansionState” to “WindowRight” should be removed. Expansion state could be moved to become an attribute of the outline element. It looks to me that everytime you add a new node, you have to change the numbering in the Expansion state. The WindowRight, bottom, etc.. is just bizzare to have in a data file. Why does the data care about how it is presented? Shouldn’t it just carry the information to me and let me decide how I want to view it? Lets say I want to scroll an OPMl list across the ticker at GMA in Times Square, how does WindowRight, etc… help me there?
I don’t know if I’d call the OPML format “crappy” anymore than I’d call CSV or a tab-delimited file “crappy”. It’s just too generic to really be of any use and I’m afraid too much of Daves ego is tied up in it to allow much change. I could be wrong there.
Version 2.0 has shipped
On Friday, Sept. 23rd at 12:52PM we shipped version 2.0. 9lbs 11oz worth of code. She is bug free, very robust, and if the size of her feet are any indication. Extrememley scalable.
Both mommy and baby are doing fine.
Tech blogging may be light for a while since I’ve been up since 6:00AM Wednesday morning.
Alder Planetarium is the place to be Oct 21st
DrunkenBlog’s “Evening at Adler”: “Evening at Adler will take place at the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in downtown Chicago, which has a very cool theater they’ve been kind enough to allow us to make use of for the evening. This wouldn’t be possible without them seeing the promise and supporting it.”
It looks like the Alder Planetarium is the place to be Oct 21st if you are interested in Mac development. Two local Seattle devs, Wil Shipley and Brent Simmons, will be flying out there. I’m hoping to get a few Cocoa/Mac presentations set up during the Seattle Code Camp. We’ve got a lot of talented OS X developers in Seattle.
Memorandum didn’t pick up on much of the PDC
I thought it was interesting that, even with the PDC in full swing and “1000′s of bloggers in the audience”, the only mentions of Microsoft at tech.Memorandum were about the BW article, the possible AOL acquisition, and one article by you Robert Scoble about Dave Winer.
Interesting.
If the site works as well as Robert and Gabe claim, then people (at least bloggers) really don’t care about Microsoft. At least not positive news about Microsoft. Either that or there is still too much human bias in the system. True machine learning is hard. It’s tough to keep hard-coded assumptions out of the system. It looks like it’s based on a “whitelist”, which means that bias has already crept into the system.
It’s an interesting experiment though.
irony thy name is mini-microsoft
Has anyone else noticed the irony in Blogger hosting Mini-Microsofts blog?
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