Should I publish an OPML file of my RSS subscriptions?

27 Nov

Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, Esoterotica, Internets, Irrelevance, Poll, personal

Reader Jay Collier recently contacted me and asked if I had ever considered publishing an OPML file of all my feed reader feeds. Feed Demon has such a feature, but I had never been able to really accurate gauge the ratio of reader-utility to pointless-egoism and had therefore refrained from posting one. But Jay inspired me to pose the question to all of you! So let me know and if there is any real interest I’ll clean up the output and share the long, long list of all the blogs I read.

I had a ‘real’ post that would have gone here, but I will run it in a day or so instead–answer the poll in the meanwhile, if you would be so kind!

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Also, more people should follow Jay’s example and contact me and/or comment!

Update 11/30/07: OK, after a weeklong poll, an overwhelming response leads me to publish an OPML file of all the feeds I read. I’ll try to format something pretty and then post it next week. Thanks for voting!

One Response

Jay Collier

November 27th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
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A collections of feeds is like a shelf of magazines. One doesn’t have to read every page of every magazine to get value. It can be fun to come across magazines you haven’t seen before!

It’s the same with Web subscriptions. Unfortunately, with some readers, you have to do it manually. Automatic sharing of public feeds is so much easier …

(For an example, see the automatic export of public subscriptions, only, at bottom left.)

http://www.bloglines.com/public/jcollier

-Jay

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