How was I going to get my subscription information out of Sharpreader? Sharpeader does have an "export subscription" function -- but I would have to manually invoke it and then copy the exported file to a publicly accessible place. Instead, I wrote a Python script to create an OPML file from the subscription.xml file maintained by Sharpreader, which the script then uploads to my wiki: http://raymondyee.net/wiki/RyRssSubscriptionList?action=raw2&mimetype=application/xml My work blog then imports the blogroll at My Blogroll by use of the Manila Macros: opmlBlogroll. Reviving my blogroll got me thinking about work I had already done (but forgotten) and next steps for elaborating this flow of information.

• Find out the latest that David Winer is doing with OPML and instant outlining. I'm very intrigued since I'm a huge fan of outlining. Jon Udell provides background for the work in Jon Udell: Instant outlining revisited. I've downloaded the new OPML Editor. OPML that I've created: test.opml is the suggested test OPML; test2.opml is something that I created from Ecco; I should also look through kernel.scripting.com. I found out that I can use the OPML editor to read http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee/discuss/msgReader$330.opml.

• Figure out whether the new open source Frontier means no need for Manila? Or is Manila the secret non-open source stuff?

• Add quickSub to my blogroll -- I saw it in action on Jon's Radio.

• Is there anything I can do about sources I like to read that don't have RSS feeds?

• Look at alternatives to OPML. I've looked into the problems with OPML on OpmlSpec. Are there any good alternatives at this point, such as Developers Wiki - XOXO?

• Even with any possible problems with OPML, I was reminded of some the interesting functionality that has been in Manila for several years for rendering OPML. For example, http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee/directory/330 renders the Uchida scrapbook, once I translated the MOAII/METS version to OPML.

• Change my Python script so that I can push the OPML via the Manila-RPC interface from Sharpreader up to Manila (to exploit its OPML rendering functionality)

• Figure out how to get the advantages of using a system like Bloglines without necessarily using bloglines. Maybe bloglines will prove to be a better way to keep up with blogs than a desktop client such as Sharpreader -- but we will have to see. Is Bloglines | API Documentation of use here?

• I've locked a lot of items in Sharpreader as references I'd like to come back to -- it would be ince to integrate those references into my overall system.

• Writing a FireFox extension that would let me highlight the sections from my wiki to send to my blogs in one step would support my blogging process.