OPML Fun
Posted by Phil Aaronson at 11:16 PM
I've been having fun playing a bit with Dave Winer's new OPML outliner/weblog tool. My little mini-site is here. Go there just to check out the headline picture if nothing else.
There's lots of really neat ideas, and I love the concept of weblog as outliner. I guess I should, I'm writing this post in my trusty Hog Bay Notebook, so outlining isn't exactly new ground. But I am cutting and pasting from the notebook to Blogger manually. And while the OPML outliner saves me from cutting and pasting, there is still a workflow issue. The intent seems more along the lines of generating (and publishing) small paragraphs at a time throughout the day. There doesn't seem to be a 'save draft', so I can work on a longer piece locally before publishing it to the web.
In short, its a neat tool so we can all build mini versions of the Scripting News site. I'm not sure that's really how I want my site exactly. But I've got to keep in mind, this is barely beta software and is still evolving. It'll be fun to watch it grow.
There's lots of really neat ideas, and I love the concept of weblog as outliner. I guess I should, I'm writing this post in my trusty Hog Bay Notebook, so outlining isn't exactly new ground. But I am cutting and pasting from the notebook to Blogger manually. And while the OPML outliner saves me from cutting and pasting, there is still a workflow issue. The intent seems more along the lines of generating (and publishing) small paragraphs at a time throughout the day. There doesn't seem to be a 'save draft', so I can work on a longer piece locally before publishing it to the web.
In short, its a neat tool so we can all build mini versions of the Scripting News site. I'm not sure that's really how I want my site exactly. But I've got to keep in mind, this is barely beta software and is still evolving. It'll be fun to watch it grow.
1 Comments:
Your mini-site is down - I suppose that's one of the risks of beta software.
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