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OPML Editor

Submitted by Peter on Tue Jul 26 2005 17:52 over 4 years ago

Giving Dave Winer's new OPML Editor a try. It is cross between an outliner and a blogging tool. You can see my new blog here. At the moment it comes with free hosting but make the most of it because Dave has wisely made no commitments.

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As a tool it looks like an update of Radio Userland. It supports html markup which is pretty much a must-have these days.

Posting through the editor is very quick and easy, I could be tempted by it, or maybe a way of importing the OPML into Drupal? I'll have to think about it. OPML is a nice file format, XML and all that, not proprietary or a binary black box.

It supports a kind of public outline which you can share with your buddies or, my preference, use to dump notes for home or work.

It is interesting, I'd play some more but unfortunately I've got to do babysitting sad

Filed under: blogging opml outliners

4 Comments

Anonymous Says:

Tue Jul 26 2005 23:54 over 4 years ago

Dave's outliner is not an update of Radio UserLand. Dave isn't part of UserLand any longer and hasn't bee for quite some time. Radio is a desktop app that you can manipulate as a content management system.

Peter Says:

Wed Jul 27 2005 09:20 over 4 years ago

Radio Userland is more of a CMS than Dave's Editor and has many more features (RSS aggregator etc), maybe a better way to express myself is to say that the new editor is a development of the Outliner that is built into Radio userland. I cannot swear that they share a common code base but they are very similar in architecture, look and feel.

Peter

Rup3rt Says:

Tue Aug 02 2005 02:08 over 4 years ago

Great site Peter. Looks lush in Opera. I played around with the OPML/XML export in Drupal's main book.module CVS but it still hasn't made it into the 4.6.x track. Bryght were working on the import/export. This is what I am hanging around for. That and integration with FreeMind........

Peter Says:

Tue Aug 02 2005 08:03 over 4 years ago

Thanks.

I haven't tried FreeMind, mainly because it is Java and in my experience that means slow, especially on the pc I use at work.

OPML is a good thing, the world needs it, and some of Dave Winer's ideas are great, visionary. However, I do find the OPML Editor a little raw. I haven't played with categories in it yet but what I really want is tagging as a means of organising data.

Peter

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