The reason we are doing this with RSS 2.0 and OPML is that Radio is the blogging tool that we choose for our k-loggin application and Radio already does RSS, and OPML is the format that we alrady use server side with IdeaTools to manage complex sites directories. So what we have to do is "just" tie this two pieces of existing code together to achieve what I described.

This said, I'm very open, for example, to have IdeaTools write or read RDF or XTM or any other of other format to develop compatibility with other existing applications, just like we already support XML-RPC, SOAP and open APIs to interface our application with the rest of the world.

We are not trying to reinvent the wheel with different standards, we are simply developing a new way of using our technologies that we believe will be helpful to our current and future customers.

I agree on the fact that OPML directories are a very interesting part of the development of content/knowledge management systems.

I think that a particulary interesting application of this technology are self-building directories. This is what we are working on with Matt and with his LiveTopics Radio tool.

It's somehow similar to what Dave describe as "timeless weblog", but instead of routing each post to one node, it will do it to several nodes in different categories and, most of all, it will be based on a server-side RSS 2.0 parser, so it will be able to organize contents from several k-logs.

What we are working on is the automatic creation of a directory containing knowledge maps based on the topics attached to each post. The main use will be k-logging, but we are already seeing other intresting applications. Stay tuned.

Ok, so I have picked my Creative Commons License, added the banner and the disclaimer. Now you can keep doing what you have always done with this site and be relatively sure that I won't sue you.