(2005-08-09) Winer Opml Vision

Dave Winer on his vision for OPML. I think the answer is to put the tools for constructing data formats into the hands of users. We've been going about it all wrong, coming up with straight-jackets for users, and expecting them to conform to some set of rules that make no sense about how the characters should be encoded, when it's ideas and relationships to other ideas that we want to make it easy for them to express. Boy that sounds an awful lot like a Semantic Web vision (with a little less AI), but trying to edit data in an OutLining editor. (See YAML, Tagsonomy, OpenReview, Structured Blogging?)