I've written before that RSS is going to struggle to go mainstream, well if RSS is still an edge-case technology then OPML long ago fell off the edge and is laying in a mangled mess at the bottom of the precipice.
Hmmm, yeah. I don't get OPML either. It seems to be a technology in search of a practical application. Sure, I can send OPML all over the place and websites can aggregate it and present it.
But, so what? Dave Winer's new Share Your OPML lets us share our RSS lists, but I'm with Squash here – why is this a good or important or new
If the RSS lists also had data stating what kind of list it was (tech, political, fashion, music etc.) then maybe an aggregate of lists would allow us to find new feeds of interest. But lots of sites already categorize feeds and don't need OPML to do it.
Share Your OPML is fun, and I've uploaded mine, yet all I see there is a big blob of feeds with no obvious way to utilize them. This may change and a killer app could emerge, but it's difficult to see what that might be.
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