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You can now find an OPML file containing all the urls to blogHUD user homepages, places visited by blogHUD users and all the RSS feeds associated with each of those.

An OPML file is a simple data format which many news feed readers can import as a directory or folder to keep subscriptions and feeds organised. It is commonly used to import and export lists of RSS feeds.

Here is the url to the OPML : http://bloghud.com/opml/

You will see in the data that there are two folders. blogHUD people and blogHUD places. These contain entries for each with an htmlUrl attribute and an xmlUrl attribute. These are the urls to the website link and the RSS feed link respectively.

I know some people are probably reading this thinking ‘wha….???’ – but I know that some people will read this and go ‘YAY!’

See ya later aggregator! Koz
posted by Koz Farina on Hwaegi using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Analysis about Apple’s much anticipated iPhone is here.

But the question I want answering which I think will help define this device is: What will be the default ringtone? Be prepared – once this baby comes out, you’re sure to hear it alot (despite the predicted ability to play an mp3 as your ringtone, natch)

Also on Apple, Wired has a great article about the birth of the iPod.

I remember when this happened, while I was working at BBC News. I thought it was terrible that a journalist should get killed, and even be in harms way to such an extent to deliver a story. I was even asked if I minded the vast amount of hours I was putting in, to prepare our systems for war – I said ‘Look, some journos are sat in the back of a tank on their way to the front-line – of course I don’t mind!!’

But there was something different about this particular news of another casualty of war, when viewed from within a news organisation: the footage we see, compared to what is broadcast.

I heard the evening after they found out that Terry had been shot from a friend who worked at ITN at the time, how they learned of his death.

In global TV newsrooms, you tend to find a TV on every desk, plumbed into a huge network of AV feeds, with split-sceen, direct acess, all-sorts of video feeds from studios, camera teams, edit suites all over the organisation (I actually watch the live feed to White House and saw a soldier standing in for Bush to get the lighting right, before GW sat down, had his hear combed and informed the world that war had broken out in Bagdhad)

Here are some pics I took with my cameraphone at the time:

Apparently, at ITN one day, they were looking at a live unbroadcasted video feed coming from a camera team in Iraq. The camera had panned across a pile of dead Iraqi bodies that they had found. While panning around the bodies, apparently one of the people in the newsroom at ITN said “That’s Terry!” – His body was found with the Iraqis. To me, this could only mean one thing – that he had been killed by ‘our’ guys and they had piled him in with the rest of them. Awful. This is (apparently) how they learned of Terry’s death.

The stories on CNN, The Times and BBC that I have seen so far, seem to say there is potentially edited footage related to this incident. I’d have to say that it wouldn’t surprise me.

After talking with Cristiano Midnight, curator of snapzilla (“the flickr of second life”) he was able to add the media extension to the RSS feeds. This makes life alot easier if you want to know the final url of an image you have uploaded, for whatever yo

I’ll get an update to a flickr version going somewhere around here too. It’s not very interactive as yet, apart from taking a snapshot of yourself in front of it, then sending it up to snapzilla, then waiting for that snap tp appear on the screen, then ta

Oh, how meta we can beeeeeeee.

Check out snapzilla at http://www.sluniverse.com/pics

Cheers! K  
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Ha! Wow! Just as I was looking for a bunch of RSS feeds from C-NET to play with, I came across their page listing their feeds and saw they were also linking to an OPML feed of feeds too! The ‘validated’ button they’re using is one I created at Dave’s request, a while ago, when he knocked together the validator (beta) for OPML.org!

Heheh! Kewl.

PS: Attn CNET – there’s an error in your OPML – so, it’s not quite ‘valid’ You have an ‘xmlUrl’ pointing to a web page for downloads.com – tsk tsk – naughty naughty If you want to point to a website, use ‘htmlUrl’, Thanks. The validator doesn’t go to check to see if your ‘xmlUrl’ is indeed an XML file.