Tonight, I attended the Toronto OPML editor roadshow. Attending the roadshow was Dave Winer, Calvin Ouyang (a good friend), Albert (x-boss and good friend), Joey de Villa (was-OC) and many other great people (sorry I can't name y'all). This was the first time I met Dave. Our introduction went like this (not exact words).
Dave: Are you Randy?
Randy: Yes.
Dave: Thanks for not bringing up the RSS/Atom format thing.
I think Dave was truly afraid that I might do the format flame war thing. Dave, I appreciate the thanks, but I'm gonna do you worse. I'm gonna tell everybody your secret formula.
I don't know how many times Albert and I have discussed how important passion is in creation. For all you David-Winer-wannabees out there, I've told you his secret before and I'm telling you again.
OPML is the next podcast/RSS/SOAP/XML-RPC thing and MetaWeblogAPI might be on the coat tails.
<flame>USM rules!</flame>
By the way, Murphy willing, I should be on Dave's next podcast. A new forum, where I can make an ass of myself </BOGU>
Notes (no exact quotes):
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I asked Dave, if this was a blogging tool or more. He said, blogging is just one application of the OPML editor and that their are others; directories, blogrolls, etc.
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I asked Dave, if he'd wecome a competing OPML editor. He said, YES, it's about the format, not the tool.
- I disagreed with Dave a bit on the value of podcasts and he recorded part of that conversation.
BTW: thanks for blogging my full name, so much for staying under the radar. I think this is the first time my full name has come up on techorati. ;)
It was cool to catch up again. Thanks for returning my keys. ;)
Randy
hah... i didn't mind, i was actually just joking about it. =)
as a semi-non-blogger, its funny to see your name on a blog.
keep up your crazy blogging =)
Dave describes blogging with the OPML editor as a power user function. Basically, he creates categories and can route the blog posts to categories to post them on one of his many blogs. As per invalid HTML, doctype, encoding, it's an early prototype, not a completed product and yet he has about the same amount of validation errors as Google's homepage.
Randy
If you're looking for a killer app, then you are right, it's not there. He's developing a platform.
Randy