- Taipei was rocked by a big quake today. Living on the Ring of Fire, quakes are a regular occurrence, but this one was an unusual "Oh, shit" moment. I had in fact just arrived home and was still sitting in the car when it hit. The car's suspension bouncing up and down and side to side, as my house creaked, and literally at the same moment, an Emergency broadcast message hit all of our phones.#
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- I integrated this blog into micro.blog and now can publish in Old School and there. That was quite satisfying as a proof-of-concept for how OPML documents can be used as a universal data type, each publishing system handling the document in its own way. I have more thoughts about this, which will have to wait until another time. But in brief, I also have my own homegrown publishing system, and I would like to teach it OPML. #
- At my company, I have been on a quest to find a way out of unstructured, semantically void document formats Plain text, HTML, and Markdown, as well as any word processor document type. But I do not want to spend my days writing in something like DITA. That space seems way too big and complicated. What I am after is something like an Outliner (hierarchical organization) plus Metadata.#
- In Drummer and OPML, the Metadata are XML attributes placed on the XML element. Presumably, it would be possible to define entire dictionaries of attributes as a way to describe data structures, concepts, and fundamental "truths" and characteristics.#
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- A publishing system would, by associating dictionaries with style sheets and other markup, be able to lay out the OPML.#
- A CMS would be able to import the data and provide relevant functions and editing controls.#
- A machine-learning model would be able to share its knowledge (its universe of mind maps) as OPML documents.#
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- (Does Drummer have special directives for making a list, ordered or unordered? I tried inserting HTML markup, to no effect.)#
- This entry brought to you by Drummer, Dave Winer's latest publishing system. A lifetime ago, I was a heavy Frontier user, having built and published China Informed entirely in Frontier's immersive environment. Frontier was to Internet and 'scripting' as Smalltalk was to desktop UI and object oriented programming. Both were blazing new ground, and both were ahead of their time. Drummer is a re-start built on modern web tech and infrastructure, and it is inherently cross-platform and open.#
- Taipei was rocked by a big quake today. Living on the Ring of Fire, quakes are a regular occurrence, but this one was an unusual "Oh, shit" moment. I had in fact just arrived home and was still sitting in the car when it hit. The car's suspension bouncing up and down and side to side, as my house creaked, and literally at the same moment, an Emergency broadcast message hit all of our phones.#
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- I integrated this blog into micro.blog and now can publish in Old School and there. That was quite satisfying as a proof-of-concept for how OPML documents can be used as a universal data type, each publishing system handling the document in its own way. I have more thoughts about this, which will have to wait until another time. But in brief, I also have my own homegrown publishing system, and I would like to teach it OPML. #
- At my company, I have been on a quest to find a way out of unstructured, semantically void document formats Plain text, HTML, and Markdown, as well as any word processor document type. But I do not want to spend my days writing in something like DITA. That space seems way too big and complicated. What I am after is something like an Outliner (hierarchical organization) plus Metadata.#
- In Drummer and OPML, the Metadata are XML attributes placed on the XML element. Presumably, it would be possible to define entire dictionaries of attributes as a way to describe data structures, concepts, and fundamental "truths" and characteristics.#
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- A publishing system would, by associating dictionaries with style sheets and other markup, be able to lay out the OPML.#
- A CMS would be able to import the data and provide relevant functions and editing controls.#
- A machine-learning model would be able to share its knowledge (its universe of mind maps) as OPML documents.#
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- (Does Drummer have special directives for making a list, ordered or unordered? I tried inserting HTML markup, to no effect.)#
- This entry brought to you by Drummer, Dave Winer's latest publishing system. A lifetime ago, I was a heavy Frontier user, having built and published China Informed entirely in Frontier's immersive environment. Frontier was to Internet and 'scripting' as Smalltalk was to desktop UI and object oriented programming. Both were blazing new ground, and both were ahead of their time. Drummer is a re-start built on modern web tech and infrastructure, and it is inherently cross-platform and open.#