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<opml version="1.1">	<head>		<title>03.opml</title>		<dateCreated>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:14:29 GMT</dateCreated>		<dateModified>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:35:24 GMT</dateModified>		<ownerName>Tom Morris</ownerName>		<ownerEmail>bbtommorris@gmail.com</ownerEmail>		<expansionState></expansionState>		<vertScrollState>1</vertScrollState>		<windowTop>44</windowTop>		<windowLeft>710</windowLeft>		<windowBottom>498</windowBottom>		<windowRight>1356</windowRight>		</head>	<body>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/2006/04/03.html#When:5:20:20PM&quot;&gt;Dave&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.opml.org/thisislisa/2006/04/03#When:5:51:02PM&quot;&gt;Lisa&lt;/a&gt; point to &lt;a href=&quot;http://opmlwishlist.ning.com&quot;&gt;the Wishlist&lt;/a&gt;. I love Ning - that site took me half an hour to clone and modify. Now, dream big folks!" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:58:47 GMT"/>		<outline text="I've just signed up for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.socialvm.com/signup.php?r=6tjcw18z&quot;&gt;Social Voicemail&lt;/a&gt;. It currently looks like vapourware. What we really need is a system &lt;i&gt;independent from Skype&lt;/i&gt; which lets you sign up, set up a link on your site saying &quot;voice feedback&quot; or something. Apparently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.odeo.com&quot;&gt;Odeo&lt;/a&gt; are doing that." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:45:06 GMT"/>		<outline text="I'm enjoying &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geekbrief.tv&quot;&gt;GeekBrief.TV&lt;/a&gt;. I's a very short video podcast (rarely longer than ten minutes - usually three to five) that discusses new products, talks about geeky stuff and so on." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:34:57 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=06/04/03/09154505&quot;&gt;Obnoxious celebrities&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:04:52 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.warmech.net/special/8-to-16/8to16.html&quot;&gt;Final Fantasy sprites!&lt;/a&gt; Cool!" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:12:27 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/essays/text/carolynray/shame_children.html&quot;&gt;Carolyn Ray&lt;/a&gt; provides an interesting article on how one can fight back against the stigma of not wanting children. " created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:19:58 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/03/theoffice-santa-monica.html&quot;&gt;theOffice&lt;/a&gt; looks like a cool idea. Perhaps I should start one in London. I've always thought a BlogBar would be neat, basically a tiny little coffee shop where everyone's talking tech all day long." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:58:54 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/at_lasta_specific_intelligent.php&quot;&gt;This is hilarious!&lt;/a&gt;" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:44:37 GMT"/>		<outline text="If you employed a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/seb/comments/swedish_hospital_asks_jesus_to_change_his_name/&quot;&gt;nurse caleld Jesus&lt;/a&gt;, would you ask him to change his name to Manuel? Of course not. If I was called Jesus, I'd grow long hair and spook out old people by saying stuff like &quot;I'm Jesus, I'm an atheist&quot; and &quot;Trinitarianism ain't true, suckers. The Unitarians and the Jews were right...&quot;" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:42:48 GMT"/>		<outline text="An old post I meant to link to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2750&quot;&gt;David Berlind on OPML/wiki&lt;/a&gt;. Any progress?" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:56:23 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000967.html&quot;&gt;Dave&lt;/a&gt; is explaining why he doesn't use Word. I don't use it because it sucks. LyX is better." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:33:48 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/02/will-wikio-challenge-google-news-and-technorati/&quot;&gt;New clever stuff&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:21:28 GMT"/>		<outline text="Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/02/walt-likes-askcom/&quot;&gt;Scoble's methodology&lt;/a&gt;, Yahoo is the best search engine. Google is the second best. All the others are evil mofos who should be killed. Especially MSN." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:54:56 GMT"/>		<outline text="I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/2006/04/april-is-cruelest-month.html&quot;&gt;someone may be projecting his failures on to others&lt;/a&gt;. And I'm not talking about Pat." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:47:38 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/you_dont_fool_me.php&quot;&gt;PZ&lt;/a&gt; points to &lt;a href=&quot;http://rockstarramblings.blogspot.com/2006/04/dogfight-1-michael-behe.html&quot;&gt;Rockstar's superb ID dialogue&lt;/a&gt;. I do like the Behe/Homestar comparison. Perhaps he should do a followup with Homsar as either Dembski or Johnson." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:40:09 GMT"/>		<outline text="Atheists are being &lt;a href=&quot;http://atheism.about.com/b/a/256589.htm&quot;&gt;actively discriminated against in the United States!&lt;/a&gt;" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:18:23 GMT"/>		<outline text="OPML Business of the Day" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:53:51 GMT">			<outline text="First off, I've created &lt;a href=&quot;http://opmlwishlist.ning.com/index.php&quot;&gt;the OPML Wishlist&lt;/a&gt;, which is hosted over on Ning. If you've got an idea of what you'd like with OPML, go there, register and post away. Use it as an OPML fantasy land. It's not for bug reports, it's for feature requests. It would be great if we could have a few of the gang using it." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:54:02 GMT"/>			<outline text="I've released some hacks for NewsRiver (one to add 'spyglass' support for the feeds page, the other to reverse the Delete and Unsubscribe buttons on ?xmlUrl spyglass pages, so that when you hit enter in Safari, you submit 'delete' not 'unsubscribe'). If you want them, just download &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbcity.co.uk/tom/opml/newsRiver.root&quot;&gt;my updated version&lt;/a&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/opml-newbies/message/989&quot;&gt;my post to OPML-Newbies&lt;/a&gt; for details." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:21:57 GMT"/>			<outline text="I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbcity.co.uk/tom/opml/documentation.html&quot;&gt;put up a page for my documentation&lt;/a&gt;. Ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:56:35 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://diveintomark.org/projects/misc/autorss/radio.html&quot;&gt;This bookmarklet&lt;/a&gt; will be useful for NewsRiver users." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:20:29 GMT"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Whine 2.0" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:14:29 GMT">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scott.heiferman.com/notes/2006/04/blogosphere.html&quot;&gt;Scott Heiferman&lt;/a&gt; describes &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/2006/04/02#When:4:38:34PM&quot;&gt;my response&lt;/a&gt; to his &lt;a href=&quot;http://scott.heiferman.com/notes/2006/03/50_reasons_why_.html&quot;&gt;50 reasons&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;whiney&quot;. Well, I prefer the insult to the usual &quot;soothing, humorless monotone of the mission statement&quot;. Everything has it's genealogy, and my whininess must be a built-in function of Frontier (it would explain a few things if it was)." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:14:37 GMT"/>			<outline text="Let me expand my reasoning. I've been invited to run a meetup group, and I &lt;i&gt;really want to&lt;/i&gt;. I like Meetup, and I go to a number of meetups in London every month, two organised by meetup.com, the rest organised manually." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:19:59 GMT"/>			<outline text="Meetup charges too much for newcomers. If someone has an established meetup going, there really is no problem. Paying $12 to keep it ticking over, with everyone contributing a few pence in the jar is no problem. You've had time to set up, and that's fine." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:20:53 GMT"/>			<outline text="But when the meetup is only small, or trying to get off the ground, charging the the rates that meetup do discourages groups from setting up. How about this: if a meetup has under fifteen people signed up, the charge is halved. $12-19 is too much to plonk down with the hope that someone &lt;i&gt;might&lt;/i&gt; turn up. $6 is not." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:22:20 GMT"/>			<outline text="When the group starts being successful, jack the price back up and start charging the monthly fee." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:24:31 GMT"/>			<outline text="This will make it so that the monthly fee isn't being split too widely between a small number of users - and that the monthly fee remains consistent as membership grows." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:24:52 GMT"/>			<outline text="Six dollars works out to be £3.44. If five people turn up, that works out as 69p each. When the group grows in to double digits, the membership fee goes from Starter level up to Standard level." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:25:38 GMT"/>			<outline text="This encourages Meetup to provide some service that's valuable to the user. The user is not going to be 'unmotivated'. He's not going to say &quot;Well, we've currently got 9 people going. Let's try and stop a tenth person coming, so we don't have to pay any more.&quot;" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:28:06 GMT"/>			<outline text="Running a Meetup shouldn't be a risky enterprise. I don't mind paying, but the amount Meetup charges for groups who have yet to establish themselves is too much, especially now that sites like upcoming let us share events and get-togethers with people through a combination of the social network and the groups. It has RSS feeds and much more." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:28:49 GMT"/>			<outline text="Upcoming is a more pleasant experience to use than Meetup, which I find very confusing (just like I find MySpace confusing)." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:31:03 GMT"/>			<outline text="Charge away when we're off-the-ground, but cut the current barrier to entry." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:31:29 GMT"/>			<outline text="Oh, and start accepting PayPal or cards that aren't Visa, MasterCard and Amex. Some of us are trying to live frugally and avoid credit cards in favour of debit cards (like Maestro - which is now a pan-European standard)." created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:32:07 GMT"/>			<outline text="Is that a whine, or is that constructive criticism?" created="Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:35:25 GMT"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>