Dave Winer’s OPML editor
Dave Winer’s website, www.opml.org, has a free editor.
You’ll find it looks a heck of a lot like Manila and Frontier — what a surprise since Dave wrote those too!
This is a great little tool just for Outlining.
It may even be good for Blogging.
Time will tell
Posted by Ron |
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Doc Searls has been using it for outlining conferences in real time.
I’ve been using it to move tabbed text to OPML outlines.
The resulting outlines can be exchanged with many OPML compliant programs and services. My favourite is Grazr.
If you look at http://teblog.typepad.com/ you’ll see two examples of OPML files surfaced in the Grazr browser – this can show the OPML file as a ’slider’ (my preference) or an outline. You can also click on an icon to make it a separate resizable window.
One of the windows is a conventional outline model containing text and hyperlinks (active URLs). The other is a collection of RSS feeds, which allows you to drill down into the content of the feed and, from there, to the original source. And, indeed you can jump to the source if you wish.
So the OPML Editor (to give it its full name) is more than just an outlining and blogging tool, it is a powerful form of information exchange.
By the way, I have absolutely nothing to do with either Grazr or Dave Winer. I just recognised it as a de facto standard and started using it. In actual fact, I wrote an ‘outliner’ in 1981 and spent a long time resenting Dave Winer (for eclipsing my business) instead of looking at what he was doing.
But credit where credit’s due.
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