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Update: Ka Edong gave me a heads-up on Nox’s mirror of Pinoy Tech Scene. Cool!

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Update: Ka Edong, who has been missing Pinoy Tech Scene, wants to know how OPML works. I don’t know myself, but it’s a convenient way of getting all those blogs in one place. Thanks to Migs, I’ve come upon OPtiMaL, a web-based OPML browser — just feed it the URL to the OPML file, and voila! you’ve got your own aggregator.

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The Pinoy Tech Scene aggregator is currently down — a blank page shows up on http://techscene.free.net.ph. For those who want the OPML, you can get it from Jan Alonzo, here. Or grab it here.

I’ve also posted the OPML for Ubuntu-PH Planet.

Just got myself SuprGlued.

Sorry, I was looking for a catchier line, but hey, I’m excited over this thing. In a previous post, I was ranting about how to “leverage” Web 2.0 for work, when I stumbled upon SuprGlu. As their blurb says, it is “about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be.”

What SuprGlu does is gather data from various sources (Blogger, delicious, Flickr, and other Web 2.0-ish sites), using those sources’ RSS feeds, and display them in pretty themeable pages. Super! (Sorry, got carried away.) Think: feed aggregator, prettified and webified.

Now, if only it will also accept OPML files like regular readers… [via cut-and-paste! on SuprGlu]

Lately, I’ve been wondering why I blog.

Then, Dilbert’s blog came along, and now I know why. He ever so eloquently sums it up as follows:

When I see news stories about people all over the world who are experiencing hardships, I worry about them, and I rack my brain wondering how I can make a difference. So I decided to start my own blog. That way I won’t have time to think about other people.

People who are trying to decide whether to create a blog or not go through a thought process much like this:

1. The world sure needs more of ME.
2. Maybe I’ll shout more often so that people nearby can experience the joy of knowing my thoughts.
3. No, wait, shouting looks too crazy.
4. I know - I’ll write down my daily thoughts and badger people to read them.
5. If only there was a description for this process that doesn’t involve the words egomaniac or unnecessary.
6. What? It’s called a blog? I’m there!

The blogger’s philosophy goes something like this:

Everything that I think about is more fascinating than the crap in your head.

The beauty of blogging, as compared to writing a book, is that no editor will be interfering with my random spelling and grammar, my complete disregard for the facts, and my wandering sentences that seem to go on and on and never end so that you feel like you need to take a breath and clear your head before you can even consider making it to the end of the sentence that probably didn’t need to be written anyhoo.

If that doesn’t inspire you to read my blog, I don’t know what will.

Ah, nuggets of wisdom.

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I’ve also rediscovered Jessica Zafra. Cool! I last read Zafra over at where my dad used to work, the Today broadsheet.

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I’ve been trying to organize my feed subscriptions. Akgregator is a cool tool. Heh. Before, I’ve used Thunderbird, but I’ve ditched it because I rarely use POP mail anyway. I usually spend a few minutes every day browsing through the feed headlines. With Akgregator’s system tray notification thingie, I know right away if there’s a new feed. Way cool.

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Oh, BTW, here’s my feeds’ OPML.