RSS Labs has just released a new Web 2.0 service that converts PowerPoint into OPML.
The service is called OPMLworkstation.com.
OPMLworkstation provides free hosting, including permalinks to
files. OPMLworkstation files can public and indexed and kept current
in OPMLsearch, or they can be password protected and kept private.
Check it out!
We can thank Bela Labovitch and Diane Gomez for creating it. They
hope that folks in the OPML community will try it out, explore ideas,
and push the site to its limits. Let them know what you feel
about the site, as well as how it works for you, and whether you
encounter any bugs.
My own rationale is that OPML can be a used as a universal knowledge format. OPML features
outines in an open format that can be indexed, searched, shared, combined, and written and read with free tools.
PowerPoint is the most widely-used format for knowledge representation,
especially in business and in universities, but .ppt files are
difficult to index, search, share, and combine.
We can disseminate knowledge by converting it from PowerPoint into OPML, and making
it accessible to the entire web world community through shared datasets and public directories and indexes.
In addition, making PowerPoint an entry point to the OPML ecosystem may
make it easier for more people to participate. PowerPoint is a
very fast, familiar environment for
folks. Why not write blogs in PowerPoint, and publish them in
OPML? By the way, why not podcast in PowerPoint, using the “record
narration”
feature?
Here is the introduction to OPMworkstation:
OPMLworkstation.com
Tags: Presidential politics