Alan Levine (@cogdog) tells us how to get extra value from an OPML file by making it into a Google Custom Search Engine (link provided by @psychemedia).
As [Kimberley] was drowning Wednesday in #PLENK2010 feeds, someone threw [her] a lifeline (Clay Shirkey -- "It's not information overload, it's filter failure") -- via Twitter. There are so many really well versed Meta-brainiacs in this course (and [she uses] the term with great reverence and affection) that it is very easy to feel like something is bad wrong with you if you cannot keep up with everything. ... How is it possible to make so many connection so quickly? How is everyone wrapping their heads around this stuff?"
A Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) for the Personal Environments, Networks and Knowledge (PLENK) 2010 Massively Open Online Course (MOOC). Created by @cpjobling from a dynamic OPML file provided by Stephen Downes, at the suggestion of @psychemedia by following the instructions provided by @cogdog.
"I think of PLEs as Operating Systems just like regular operating systems are for computer users. In fact, I call the PLE a LearnOS.
Thinking of a PLE as a LearnOS helps me also get by the initial comprehension of what it can contain, such as tools, resources and connections, as also how it is deployed - PC, mobile and cloud. I can then move on to think about how learning will occur in this LearnOS by asking not only how the LearnOS can be organized to support my learning (feed aggregation, twitter tags and the like) in a given context, or how my LearnOS is connected to other LearnOS-es out there (PLNs), but also to thinking how my LearnOS can adapt to my learning contexts and my learning needs."