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Do you live in the Berkeley area and have a car to wash? I recommend the ![[WWW]](/www/moin/htdocs/classic/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
Car Wash Benefit for the Options Recovery Services, which takes place every non-rainy Saturday morning and early afternoon. The wash is thorough, the service is friendly, and the money goes to a good cause. (I took a few pictures of the scene.)
Using a single website like travelocity to compare airfares used to be enough for me. Lately, I've started using Cheap flights and more with the Booking Buddy airfare comparison tool to help me a whole slew of travelocity-like sites.
Revisiting the technology of blogrolls
A couple of days ago, as I got back to writing in my blogs, I was reminded of my blogroll, which had fallen into disrepair. I am willing to maintain a blogroll if it does not require too much effort. The mechanism I decided to be workable is to share my own Sharpreader subscription list as my blogroll. A website that I am willing to keep in my subscription list is an excellent approximation of the sites with which I want to publicly associate myself.
How was I going to get my subscription information out of Sharpreader? Sharpeader does have an "export subscription" function -- but I would have to manually invoke it and then copy the exported file to a publicly accessible place. Instead, I wrote a Python script to create an OPML file from the subscription.xml file maintained by Sharpreader, which the script then uploads to my wiki: http://raymondyee.net/wiki/RyRssSubscriptionList?action=raw2&mimetype=application/xml My work blog then imports the blogroll at My Blogroll by use of the Manila Macros: opmlBlogroll. Reviving my blogroll got me thinking about work I had already done (but forgotten) and next steps for elaborating this flow of information.
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Find out the latest that David Winer is doing with OPML and instant outlining. I'm very intrigued since I'm a huge fan of outlining. Jon Udell provides background for the work in
Jon Udell: Instant outlining revisited. I've downloaded the new OPML Editor. OPML that I've created: test.opml is the suggested test OPML; test2.opml is something that I created from Ecco; I should also look through kernel.scripting.com. I found out that I can use the OPML editor to read http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee/discuss/msgReader$330.opml.
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Figure out whether the new
open source Frontier means no need for Manila? Or is Manila the secret non-open source stuff?
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Add
quickSub to my blogroll -- I saw it in action on Jon's Radio.
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Is there anything I can do about sources I like to read that don't have RSS feeds?
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Look at alternatives to OPML. I've looked into the problems with OPML on
OpmlSpec. Are there any good alternatives at this point, such as Developers Wiki - XOXO?
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Even with any possible problems with OPML, I was reminded of some the interesting functionality that has been in Manila for several years for rendering OPML. For example, http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee/directory/330 renders the Uchida scrapbook, once I translated the MOAII/METS version to OPML.
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Change my Python script so that I can push the OPML via the
Manila-RPC interface from Sharpreader up to Manila (to exploit its OPML rendering functionality)
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Figure out how to get the advantages of using a system like Bloglines without necessarily using bloglines. Maybe bloglines will prove to be a better way to keep up with blogs than a desktop client such as Sharpreader -- but we will have to see. Is
Bloglines | API Documentation of use here?
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I've locked a lot of items in Sharpreader as references I'd like to come back to -- it would be ince to integrate those references into my overall system.
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Writing a FireFox extension that would let me highlight the sections from my wiki to send to my blogs in one step would support my blogging process.
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