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OPML is maturing and needs an identity. Help spread the word about OPMLIcons.com and join the conversation. … In October 2005, Dave Winer put out a community request for a beautiful OPML icon. While several options were presented none have gained traction. During our quest for an icon during an OPML related project we realized we needed to develop our own. You are free to take this icon and spread it around the community, use it for your own projects, or create derivatives. The only thing we request is that you release your creation under the same license to the community. View the original Dave Winer post: http://www.opml.org/2005/10/30#a111 View Chris Pirillo’s post from Gnomedex: http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/30/opml-icon/

Back at the MIX06 conference in Las Vegas, I demonstrated synchronization live and on-stage between Vista, IE7, and the NewsGator platform (including FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, and an early build of our windows mobile product). Today, I’m proud to be able to point you to the first public beta of NewsGator Desktop Sync. This will fully synchronize your NewsGator subscriptions (including our clients such as FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, etc, when running in sync mode) with Vista and/or IE7 and their included RSS platforms. As I’ve said before, Vista and IE7 are going to have a big impact on syndication as we know it…and as promised, NewsGator is extending that experience beyond the desktop. If you’re running IE7 RC1 or later, or Windows Vista RC1 or later, download it and give it a try!

Users of Internet Explorer and the excellent Windows Live Toolbar have a Blog It button. By default it goes to the Spaced editor but once Windows Live Writer is installed you can set if to use that instead. With Windows Live Toolbar being an Internet Explorer only addon Firefox users which stumble upon a bloggable page need to manually kickstart their Windows Live Writer, copy & paste title, copy & paste a quote and finally copy & paste the URL. No more! The Blog It with Windows Live Writer Firefox extension adds the same ability to the right-click menu of Firefox. You can also add a button to one of your toolbars if you wish (see left). Hitting the Blog It button with or without text selected will first pop up a destination screen where you can select which blog to post to. It then starts WIndows Live Writer with the right blog selected and creates the draft of a new post.

Geek Party In The Park 27th August 2006 Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire If you live in the Midlands and not to far away from Royal Leamington Spa, then you might be interested in Geek in the Park a day-long get together, picnic, and discussion for anyone to do with the Internet (developers, designers, programmers… ). This is a very informal affair so family and friends are very much welcome too. The big day is split in to two main events, Geek in the Park starts with The Picnic during the day, followed by a discussion in the evening. The event starts on Sunday at noon and everything should wrap up by around 11pm.

Windows Live Writer Plugins conventiently lists plugins and addons available for Windows Live Writer, a desktop blogging program that can post to various types of blogs.