If the reports are true, how long before Steve becomes Big Brother? With Apple poised to spend US$5-6 billion purchasing Universal Music, how long before DRM becomes part of OX 10.4 “Bobcat”? When will iTunes rat you out to the RIAA?

Or maybe, just maybe… this is the start of a change which needs to come from within the industry… Maybe Apple/Universal will get together with Sony, similarly divided between media and technology, and start bringing some sense to the digital download debate?

So, here’s the problem: I’ve been using Syndirella for all my news aggregating. It’s a great program, and although Dmitry doesn’t really have the time or enthusiasm to upgrade it much further, it is open source, so someone might pick up the slack. (Fingers crossed.) Since I’ve been using Syndirella, I’ve been reading the web with my browser a lot less often, so when I come across an interesting site, I grab its feed, rather than put it into my blogroll. I’ve got about 300 blogs in my feed list and I’d like to show them on my blogroll, but I don’t feel like copying and pasting all 300 links into the form at blogrolling.com.

One of the things Syndirella does well is export its feed list to OPML and OCS. Blogrolling.com supports some OPML interaction for those people using Radio. (Maybe I’m just not understanding, but I don’t think this applies to any other blogging software.) I’m looking for an automated way to make my blogroll and my feedlist mirror one another in Moveable Type (or Blogger, or whatever) and in Syndirella (or FeedReader or Amphetadesk or NewzCrawler or whatever), probably using OPML as an intermediary, but without requiring me to muck around with any of those “P” languages (Perl, PHP, Python) in which I am utterly incompetent. A tall order?