tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1.8434- 2007-12-03T11:18:21Z Comments for Blogs I'm enjoying of late Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1.8434.18234 Comment from John Tropea on 2007-10-11 John Tropea http://libraryclips.blogsome.com Hey Jack,

Thanks for joining in...one thing, you added the homepages of the blogs into Grazr, better to add the feeds of each blog instead, so you can graze the content

]]> 2007-10-11T05:40:12Z 2007-10-11T05:40:12Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1.8434.18235 Comment from jackvinson on 2007-10-11 jackvinson http://blog.jackvinson.com Drat! I was hoping Grazr would figure that out for me instead of having to do it by hand. Very annoying... Of course, this is really my first experiment with Grazr, so I didn't quite know what to expect. I was hoping it could spit out an OPML file too, but I don't see that option in blazing lights anywhere.

I'll correct the Grazr reading list, so people who are sleeping now will get the updated version.

]]> 2007-10-11T05:48:31Z 2007-10-11T05:48:31Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1.8434.18237 Comment from Mike Kowalchik on 2007-10-11 Mike Kowalchik http://blog.grazr.com Hi Jack, couple of quick things. We have lots of autodiscovery features in our code infrastructure, for example, if you put an HTML page url in the "address bar" in the widget, it will auto-discover feeds and opml files in that page and present you with a list. Even though we have the facility to do it, we decided against trying to intuit the intent of our users in the editor. We found that showing a large auto-discovery dialog of possible feeds tended to confuse most users (except for the already feed-savvy).

While most people think of the widget as a simple way to show feeds, we think it's also extremely useful as a general information aggregation service/system. (The screencast / video on the homepage really shows this use). In that spirit we decided to allow people to aggregate links, feeds, media, and raw text into the OPML using more of the power of the underlying format and not assume they always want feeds.

As for OPML output, we generally enable live, web-accessible OPML output at all stages of our site. On most "file" pages (where you see the grids of images), if you look at the bottom of the page you'll usually see links to the opml of the file listings. On the /read page of any particular file if you look on the right side you can get the raw opml of the file as well. Anywhere you see the blue "bulls-eye" icon that usually means there's an opml surfaced there that you can use in other tools or save locally.

You can get an opml for the most recent files on the site, popular files, all the files in your account, all the files in another users account, or the raw OPML of any particular reading list.

Don't hesitate to shoot me an e-mail if you have any questions, or if you need help with any of this!

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