Wherever I go! I’ve often wished I could use my “Janet, we have book recommendations for you here…” information from Amazon elsewhere online. Apparently, (with thanks to the heads up from the folks over at Marketing Conversatio….

APML is like OPML + eHarmony?

Fantastic.

I guess the danger in the future is that those who only subscribe (and pay attention to) their own kind will be more myopic and isolated in their positions, surrounded by ‘yes’ men and women, cloning ideas and cementing them in their own realities. A frightening notion, in my opinion. Religions have gone that way for centuries, and much of the mess we’re in today is as a result.

Great thinkers, however, know they need to surround themselves with different points of view (know your enemies, as it were…).

Will we be further dividing the great thinkers from the rest of us by our attention patterns? Probably so.

But perhaps, as we expose our attention patterns to others (through enterprise 2.0-type collaboration systems like Attensa (for watching RSS-based reading patterns) and Clearspace (for composing and sharing our attention patterns ourselves) we’ll be more aware of them ourselves.

Interesting proposition, either way.

You may have already heard of an OPML file. OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language, and XML format for outlines, and has evolved into be the format for storing, sharing, exporting, and importing RSS feed subscriptions. Most RSS readers…