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Wait, there’s a category

patrickfirestone — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:26:31 +0000

I published the last entry and noticed that the category “OPML Editor” appeared on WordPress for the post “How to post a link.” Why didn’t the other categories show up?

Ok, I think I’m getting somewhere

patrickfirestone — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:05:39 +0000

I’m making some progress with the OPML editor and WordPress. Mapping outliner functions to page results has been done with trial and error. That’s how I work. There a probably others ways, but this works for me.

I like the concept of an outliner for blog management. Some things that would be cool:

Sync read/unread with other aggregators

Set the WordPress blog as the default blog outline (intead of “Today’s Outline” which updates the blog at opml.org)

These are not feature requests, just ideas that I’m recording here.

3Bubbles

patrickfirestone — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:53:54 +0000

I’ve switched to tablet mode to explain this post. It got here from NewsRiver. By default it went into “Today outline.” “Copy” and “paste” put it in the WordPress outline. I want to find a way for it to go to the WordPress outline by default.

Preview of 3Bubbles. Silicon Valley based 3Bubbles, which launches next week, is going to be an awesome way for bloggers and other websites to extend the conversation on the things that they write about.

They have created a very easy to integrate Ajax based chat interface that can be added to every blog post automatically. By simply adding [...] [TechCrunch]

OK, that wasn’t a link

patrickfirestone — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:47:36 +0000

37signals

Maybe this will be.

How to post a link

patrickfirestone — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:35:42 +0000

37signals

Moving along…

patrickfirestone — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:34:55 +0000

Ok, maybe not.

OK, this is my second post.

patrickfirestone — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:11:36 +0000

Tab did this.

And when all that was done, it did this. OK, this is too much…I click “Save” , I refresh Firefox, and there it is.

And this.

This is my first post to WordPress using the OPML Editor.

patrickfirestone — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:10:09 +0000