Comments on: Dynamic OPML http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/18/dynamic-opml/ personal blog of Aaron Mentele, web developer and partner at Electric Pulp Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:51:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/18/dynamic-opml/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Marshall Kirkpatrick Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:37:39 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/18/dynamic-opml/#comment-73 Yes yes here here! When is this going to happen? Some people say that even static OPML is too esoteric to be relevant to most people and thus that calls for dynamic OPML to be prioritized are absurd. To that I can say that I showed a very nontechnical client how to grab an OPML file from MonitorThis this week and he did it with a casual acceptence no different that the way he subscribed to individual feeds. Second example, Newsweek's custom feed reader with Newsgator is going to get more people comfortable with the idea of a changing list of favorites. Variations on this theme are going to create at least a small, but larger than exists today, demand for a widely available lever to make OPML files dynamic. Maybe a dynamic app is all that's needed. I see on your blog that you like FeedRinse. I had always heard that filtering feeds was too intensive to be practical! So give me a chance to pay a small subscription to a service that will let me essentially redirect requests for RSS feeds! It's like the XML version of the old Purl.org system. Wouldn't that work? Yes yes here here! When is this going to happen? Some people say that even static OPML is too esoteric to be relevant to most people and thus that calls for dynamic OPML to be prioritized are absurd. To that I can say that I showed a very nontechnical client how to grab an OPML file from MonitorThis this week and he did it with a casual acceptence no different that the way he subscribed to individual feeds. Second example, Newsweek’s custom feed reader with Newsgator is going to get more people comfortable with the idea of a changing list of favorites. Variations on this theme are going to create at least a small, but larger than exists today, demand for a widely available lever to make OPML files dynamic.

Maybe a dynamic app is all that’s needed. I see on your blog that you like FeedRinse. I had always heard that filtering feeds was too intensive to be practical! So give me a chance to pay a small subscription to a service that will let me essentially redirect requests for RSS feeds! It’s like the XML version of the old Purl.org system. Wouldn’t that work?

]]> By: JustPlain » Blog Archive » Who’s gonna give dynamic opml a push? http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/18/dynamic-opml/comment-page-1/#comment-50 JustPlain » Blog Archive » Who’s gonna give dynamic opml a push? Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:47:24 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/18/dynamic-opml/#comment-50 [...] Aaron Mentele blogs about dynamic opml, like readinglists and how this concept is talked about a lot in the geekosphere but not yet implemented in most mainstream aggregators. Too bad, because the idea is brilliant and simple at the same time! [...] [...] Aaron Mentele blogs about dynamic opml, like readinglists and how this concept is talked about a lot in the geekosphere but not yet implemented in most mainstream aggregators. Too bad, because the idea is brilliant and simple at the same time! [...]

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