Anne Zelenka : MyBlogHer Profile

monkeynotions reports a funny IM conversation she had with a friend about eTech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference held last week in San Diego: me: i spoke to a friend who just came back from eTech me: he said almost everyone in the room had their laptop open me: and no one was paying attention me: he said there were even two guys who spent all their time on their laptop in the lobby me: heh my friend: wasn't this year's theme in eTech Attention Trust? me: yah me: hahah me: which makes it even more ironic  Read more >

I'm sure you know what HTML is. But what about OPML? BlogHer Hobbies editor Debra Roby says it makes her think of Oompa Loompas. It reminds me of my two-year-old's request for "opa-meal" at breakfast time. OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language, a human-readable text format for managing hierarchical, ordered lists. It's most commonly used to manage lists of RSS feed subscriptions, but it could easily be used for other applications, like to do list management or saving a playlist of music. If you export subscriptions from the Web-based news reader Bloglines, you'll get an OPML file. OPML is big these days because people who read lots of blogs are looking for better ways to manage the information overload that often results from subscribing to too many feeds. OPML is a foundational technology for addressing that.  Read more >