Justplain

Today someone suggested to use pdf’s for the content of a website cause that would be easier to read then html. That just shows how the web evolved from plain documents to complex frameworks where we can hardly find a space to put in the main content. Pdf’s and word documents are used in the old fashioned way, black text on a white background, a usability concept that has been used for centuries. Reminded me of how Dave Winer has been bringing scripting.com back to basics in the last couple of weeks. Maybe we all should go back to basics now that Internet Explorer is facilitating cross scripting…

Ha, its been almost 4 months since my last post. I just didn’t feel like posting. Is anybody still reading this or should is just close the whole thing down?

Google must have read my review and decided to spend some cash and become the owner of JotSpot

Today i watched a documentary ‘America: Freedom to Fascism”, by Aaron Russo (Trading places). A bizar movie which states that there is no law that requires us citizens to pay federal taxes, no one can point the filmmaker to a law that gives the IRS the right to do so. One other bizar fact the documentary reveals is that the federal reserve bank is not a governmental institution but a private corporation (!?), to which the federal government, thus the taxpayers, pay intrest. If this is true this would be absurd, a ‘governmental organization’ that collects almost 1000 billion dollars a year in unlawful taxes…

Yesterdays download of the day by the Lifehacker:

Camstudio, a freeware tool for making perfect screencasts (Windows)! It saves your recordings in avi but comes with a tool to convert them to streaming flash. You can choos to record full screen or a region you can pick your self.

This screencast shows how you can install camstudio. (Don’t get confused by the almost perfect mac-theme on this windows machine)

O’reilly published a Short Cut pdf document on opml: “Getting Acquainted with OPML” by Amy Bellinger

I just bought and downloaded a copy, and took a look at it. I think it serves it purpose: it is a short cut and will save you a lot of time if you are new to OPML and want to get acquainted fast. Thats what it is, a starting point for learning more about opml, if you want to go in deeper you can start from there.

One thing, in my copy the links (or what i think are links, bold, grey) do not work. Am i doing something wrong? Or are those not links??? If those are not links then all the time one has saved is lost on searching all things mentioned in the document in google.

Other then that, i think it is great that someone has collected all things opml into one document. It would have be nicer if the document was published for free (i understand that is not o’reilly’s trade, but since Amy is sort of an OPML-evangelist) , specially if you want to share the opml experience with the rest of the world… I think this info should be on wikipedia or opml.org

Help him/her find it!

Jason Kolb recently wrote 2 articles about how he would like to be able to access his personal data the ipod-way:

“The iPod makes the music part of my life easy. The most important thing it does is make the vast amounts of music that I have accessible and useful. And this got me to thinking. A lot of what I really want to accomplish with technology runs along the same lines. I look at all the data in my life from the perspective of a business-intelligence executive, and I see giant piles of data, none of them talk to each other, and the only systems I currently have to navigate the piles are in the stone age. I want to make those data silos that make up my digital life easy to use for once.”

When reading his articles (Browsing personal data iPod-style and Flattening the Internet with a Personal Data Browser Control), the first thing that popped in my mind was ‘that’s an opml job’. The ipod way of structuring data is just plain simple outlining. I think opml could work perfect to act as a container for this personal info. It can handle links to rss, html and other xml-formats.

Which pieces could we loosely join to create such a personal data browser?

Preview video of Scrybe (www.iscrybe.com), a on- and offline productivity suite. Taking ajax to whole different level, be prepared for a major jaw drop!

They also have a sync feature for the most important and most widely used handheld device: pen and paper (this really is less stupid then it sounds when you think about it)

on video’s

• BetterBadNews - GILLMOR GANG SMACKDOWN DRAWS A CROWD AS TECH TALK GETS ROWDY
• the show, the show, the show and the show with Ze Frank
• ScobleShow: Wordpressing with Automattic’s CEO, Toni Schneider

I’ve set up a brand new blog for opmlmanager that i’ll be using for news on opmlmanager!