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Doc Searls is listing all the cars he's ever owned.

Thanks, that reminds me that my OPML car roll would be a good file to use to understand the search feature of GrazrScript, whenever I finally get around to studying it.

I made it to demonstrate the inclusion properties of an OPML directory, and referred to it on this draft OPML Editor support site page, and in my ebook about OPML. (Also mentioned docnography in the book.)

When I link to the car roll I usually point to it on Dave's Worldoutline but it seems to be down at the moment. Here it is in a Grazr:

I was so immersed in OPML for a while that I burned out on it a little, but lately it's been popping up unbidden. Something made me think when I was driving to work the other day that it might be a good format for resumes, especially as they could be used after landing a job. A company could make a nice browsable qualifications database with OPML.

P.S. I had an Austin America, too. Never knew anybody else who owned one. They were pretty cute, a little like a Mini.

I was so happy to see all the developers popping up with ideas in answer to Dave Winer's advice request for the best way to go about porting the OPML Editor to Linux. Great idea to approach it that way, and get a fresh crop of techies thinking about it. The open-source Frontier crowd doesn't seem to be doing much at all anymore.

God knows I don't work at that level, and barely even understand what's needed or what the aim is, but I know I'd love to see the Linux build so the OPML Editor Community Server can run on it. That makes all kinds of sense.

But who knows, maybe Dave is thinking more along the lines of fractional horsepower servers. That's cool, too, and even more groundbreaking.

Hell yeah, I'd put a teensy web server in my little Sansa mp3 player to sync podcasts with my home network. Put one in my cat's collar or on the bottom of my shampoo bottle. Or, how about this? In a bookmark in my paper book that tells me where I left off so I can continue in audio when I get in the car?

Jon Udell's latest interview on IT Conversations gets into Syndicated Oriented Architecture (SynOA, to distinguish it from plain ol' SOA).

Here's the .mp3 file of the talk with Rohit Khare, founder of KnowNow and software architect.

The first step, both evangelists say, is you gotta "RSSify" everything. Then tag your information to help other people find what you've found. Consider special problems of syndication in the enterprise.

My note: think beyond blogs when you think about RSS.

NorthxEast's 50 most influential bloggers list is pretty good. Except the order seems kind of screwy, and Dave Winer should be on it. No matter what you might say about who did what first, blogging would not be as popular as it is today if he hadn't been helping to make it so for years by leading by example and making tools and making people think.

Speaking of Dave, I'd like to see listings like this offer an OPML file as a subscription list to the feeds of the sites they're featuring.

I've been writing some fiction on my OPML blog, an experiment using paid posts as product placements within the story. (Except after doing it for a few days, my enthusiasm about the paid post aspect is waning.)

I'll be archiving the story here, using the Drupal book module.

Adam Green's Top 10 list at Top 10 is all OPML blogs.

Maybe I'm the token woman, or maybe I occasionally have something to say. In any event, thanks Adam.

If you want to get steeped in OPML, you should grab the OPML reading list for these blogs. Read them for just a week or two if you want, and you'll get a good idea of what's going on.

After commenting on my OPML blog yesterday about Les Orchard's brain dump post on outlining projects, I went off on a tear about Amadeus.

Mozart

When Les talks about not yet having committed to "paper" some of the work held in his brain, it reminded me of a scene in Amadeus. Simon Callow's character, who is producing The Magic Flute as a low-class vaudeville, demands the score and first is delighted to hear Mozart say it's finished. "Where is it?" he asks, and Mozart points to his head. "Here, it's up here," he explained. "Now it's all just scribbling. Scribbling and bibbling and bibbling and scribbling."

Not all of Amadeus was factual, but that aspect was, according to authoritative biographies. He was able to hear complete new works in his head, not just piano pieces or string quartets but full choral and orchestral pieces. Then it was only a matter of writing them down as though taking dictation.

The ability is shown or mentioned three or four times in the movie, the most thrilling one when he recruits Salieri to be his stenographer for the Requiem. Mozart is impatient that his nemesis can't scribble fast enough. That scene is an encapsulation of the whole plot of the movie (earlier a play): Salieri in obsessive and destructive awe of Mozart's complete originality. At one point Mozart describes that an instrument section (don't remember which) should map to a theme sung by the tenor section in the chorus. Salieri first doesn't even get it because it's so out of the box. Then you see the recognition dawn on his face. He sees what is meant. Beat. He's blown away by the genius of it. He's honored for the opportunity to be present at the creation, but all the while it's also about Mozart being what Salieri knows he never can be.

Can you tell I kind of like that movie? Now I want to watch it today. Want to come over?

I love my OPML blog. So much that I tend to post non-OPML things there. I'd just blog there exclusively, except that I want to find out more about what permanent hosting arrangements there will turn out to be.

I'll start trying to cross-post a few non-OPML items here. Ironically, Les sometimes has the same problem with a preference for posting to his OPML blog over his "real blog." I think part of the appeal is the ease of posting, and another part is the sense of community here. It's like a network of bloggers.

Grazr, the reading list reader, came out with a beta and API this week.

In remarking on Rowan Narin's Opod widget, Mike says "it's been around for a while."

Just shows you how fast this reading list thing is spreading. Because Opod came out a whole two months ago!

Nice that the developers are working together.

I've spent my free time the last few days poking around in Manila, getting a community site set up for OPML Editor volunteers.

Frontier stuff is a whoooooooole different world.

Snow can't be said to be pretty at this time of year, no matter how pretty it may be.

It snowed all day here in Chicago, but on Friday it's supposed to reach 56. Crazy!