I had a draft post sitting in Wordpress with just a link to BlogBridge 3.0. Guess I was going to talk about it, but never got around to it.
If you are unfamiliar with it, check it out. It’s got some great features that other feed readers don’t including remote OPML hosting.

BlogBridge 3.0

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I’ve always dreamed of RSS replacing email as a spam-free person-to-person communication device.

Adam Curry says it’s not possible, though I don’t see why anyone would believe him. I’ve never heard  or read Dave Winer talk about if this was possible.

For me, I originally thought a system of RSS+SSE might be possible for this, except for the fact that it would seem no better than email because of SPAM issues, so why bother?

I met Jim Moore at OPMLCamp a few months back and recently sent him a note. He’s using a service called Spam Snag to pro-actively stop SPAM.

I got a reply and had to click-through before my email and any subsequent emails got through.

It occurred to me that by building that into the protocol, we could create a better, stronger, faster messaging service right on top of RSS.

I’ll think on this some more. I did have some wine with dinner, so I may be missing an obvious  reason why this won’t be feasible.

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Kent is still looking for conversation. It’s funny because I’ve commented and linked to him numerous times, here and at Everybuddy and have never gotten any feedback.

I must be boring, too.

Well, one thing is for sure, he can’t claim I’m in it for the money. ; )

Yeah right. I predict this blog will make me rich. Check back in a year or so.

In fact, I predict anyone who has tagged a post ‘OPML’ in the last two weeks will be rich very soon.
Check back in a year or so.

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I’m back from vacation. I noticed Tom is playing with XSL .

Neat, but it reminds me that Microsoft made a mistake here.

I haven’t checked in a while but I hope they change that.

I especially hope they don’t do that for OPML.

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I’m a strong believer in the disintermediation of classified ads, which is partially why I chose the name of this blog.

In fact, I heralded Edgeio as a sign of what was to come, especially to the CareerBuilder people I work with.

So, like James Corbett, I was confused by Mike Arrington’s wording of “decentralised job board for tech” , as you can see by my comment on the CrunchNotes post.

Here is the way decentralization for job sites must work.

1. Companies make RSS feeds of their sites available.

2. A decentralized but comprehensive OPML directory of jobs is wrought.

3. The directory is available under an open license.

That’s really all there is to it. And there will still be plenty of ways for service providers to make money.

Now if I were Mike Arrington, I’d continue the lucrative site he’s got. I think that’s great.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with adding those feeds to the Open Job Directory as well. (OPML heads can go to the directory , but it’s all OPML 2.0 inclusion, so you better Grazr it.)
Since the majority of jobs in the Open Job Directory are from paid listing sites, it looks like just another aggregator. But that’s not true. It includes feeds from O’Reilly, Edelman and even Edgeio (OPML) .

And once a critical mass of Businesses are publishing their job feeds, it’ll make those paid-listing sites irrelevant.

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Chicago: http://chi.riverofjobs.com

LA: http://la.riverofjobs.com

SanFran: http://sanfran.riverofjobs.com

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This is New York river of jobs. Other cities and job category specific to come any day. API available if you are ineterested.

http://ny.riverofjobs.com/

In fact this is the whole web page. One Rest call:

note: no line break here. I was having trouble with Wordpress blowing out the template

include_once(’http://freecruiter.org/rest/?method=getFeedListItems
&format=html&countryid=1&stateid=33&cityid=1&jobid=0′);

For fun just change the format=html in the URL to format=rss and you’ve got the rss version of the river for yourself.

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Kent, Kent, Kent!! I love ya buddy but slow down here , I think.

And Tom Morris concurs, I think.

I suppose by linking to them , I can’t also support the idea of gestures, but I don’t think that’s the case.

I’ll just put one half-baked thought out there for now. The discussion really needs a podcast, and I’m trying to get motivated on that one OPML gang. I’m just busy.

Links are dead. Long live Links.

Right, now links are the king of how we get information. Google PageRank, Technorati rank, etc.

Okay we agree.

But wait. We filter out Spam Blogs and SEO sharks so that we get better results.

But wait. We add context and history and dare I say “Attention” data to get better results.

But wait. We add the wisdom of the crowd to get better results.

There is so much additional metadata that is, could be, and will be added to the tools we use to get and give information, that you must at least agree the link is overrated.

As I’ve said before. If I write a good post reviewing a new cell phone and engadget writes nonsense and mentions that same phone, who do you think will show up higher in a Google search.

That indicates a system that is broken. But it doesn’t yet want to fix itself, because links are the basis of it’s economy.

Now, you may have heard about Google’s talk about pay-per-action as opposed to pay-per-click.

In that case, the point isn’t to get as many click-throughs as possible, but to entice the right person through the door. One who has the right intentions.

The way you do that is by examining what they have been paying attention to and what gestures they have implied.

I agree all of this can be rather silly sounding, but I have one real example that I gave to Steve Gillmor. and maybe you think this is as ridiculous as Scoble’s example (I’m not linking).

It’s happy hour and a local pub wants to draw a crowd in with a beer special.

You’ve been a patron there before and payed with your GoogleWallet. They know you like Guiness.
Fine, send out a text message to all who bought Guiness in the last year during the hours of 5 to 8, offering a free cascading treat.

But wait. The web service polls for my geocode and realizes my cell phone is in Austin, Texas.

I have just made a implicit negative gesture that I don’t want that message.

Damn, and I was thirsty.

A link is one of the most useful tools we have in the bag right now., but it doesn’t always have to be that way.

Me, I’m counting on the teleport to be the winner.

“Kosso had 500 people teleport to the RSS platform. Must be a an authority Flissl!” ; )

Don’t bother filing a patent on Pay-Per-Teleport. I already did.

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UPDATE3 : Button is working.
UPDATE2 : Button not working. Hmm. Not sure what to do.
UPDATE : If you’d like to put the button on your blog as well, let me know and I’ll forward the code. matt-at-classyfeeds-dot-com

Dave Winer recently pointed to the sad story of theft against Donovan Watts .

I don’t know Donovan personally but he has donated time and code to the OPML community and myself so I thought I’d try to help.

It’s often awkward to ask for donations during hard times so I suggested he create a paypal but and I’d put it on my site. That way it’s mor like a benefit concert.

Please link to it and donate if you can . Thanks

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This 2.5 year old post by Stephen Downes seems to touch upon some currently hot topics. OPML, Semantic Social Networks and Identity for click-lazy.

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