Comments on: Meet your new friend, the OPML Reading List http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/ personal blog of Aaron Mentele, web developer and partner at Electric Pulp Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:51:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: The wisdom of crowds at charisma:18 http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-7882 The wisdom of crowds at charisma:18 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:02:51 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-7882 [...] Dave Winer scratches the surface of what could be done with opml reading lists. Mining for popular blog feeds is made easy when throngs of blog consumers are willing to volunteer what they’re reading. And to me, finding relevant feeds is more important than finding interesting posts. With new blogs popping up by the minute, discovering the relevant ones is becoming increasingly difficult. [...] [...] Dave Winer scratches the surface of what could be done with opml reading lists. Mining for popular blog feeds is made easy when throngs of blog consumers are willing to volunteer what they’re reading. And to me, finding relevant feeds is more important than finding interesting posts. With new blogs popping up by the minute, discovering the relevant ones is becoming increasingly difficult. [...]

]]> By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Aaron Mentele Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:30:54 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-44 Thanks Ernie. I'll check it out. Thanks Ernie. I’ll check it out.

]]> By: Ernie Oporto http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Ernie Oporto Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:47:39 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-43 Aaron- Yes, you can import an OPML reading list with FeedOnFeeds in the Add Feeds dialog. I had the change to use it when Dave Winer posted his Yankees Reading list. =) Aaron-
Yes, you can import an OPML reading list with FeedOnFeeds in the Add Feeds dialog. I had the change to use it when Dave Winer posted his Yankees Reading list. =)

]]> By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Aaron Mentele Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:51:09 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-41 <p>You're right Amy - misleading sentence. I'll adjust the post. Thanks. </p> You’re right Amy – misleading sentence. I’ll adjust the post. Thanks.

]]> By: Amy Bellinger http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Amy Bellinger Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:48:18 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-40 > An OPML Reading List is a url rather than a file. Actually, it is a file. I can see why you wouldn't think of it as one, because most users never will save the file to their local computer. But you could save it, and do things with it, like model your own reading list after it. > An OPML Reading List is a url rather than a file.

Actually, it is a file. I can see why you wouldn’t think of it as one, because most users never will save the file to their local computer. But you could save it, and do things with it, like model your own reading list after it.

]]> By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Aaron Mentele Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:52:02 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-39 Alek, I'm right there with you - I got my pom poms and striped skirt and I'm cheering 'em on... okay, I might have given away too much. Ernie, does Feed on Feeds allow you to subscribe to a reading list? Generating the OPML isn't what's bringing me down, it's getting a reader to subscribe to a dynamic OPML reading list (url). Alek, I’m right there with you – I got my pom poms and striped skirt and I’m cheering ‘em on… okay, I might have given away too much.

Ernie, does Feed on Feeds allow you to subscribe to a reading list? Generating the OPML isn’t what’s bringing me down, it’s getting a reader to subscribe to a dynamic OPML reading list (url).

]]> By: Ernie Oporto http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Ernie Oporto Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:38:56 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-38 Try this reader for something that generates OPML for your entire reading list. I'll soon be adding support for generating OPML based on the reader's tagging system. http://www.shokk.com/blog/articles/tag/feedonfeeds Try this reader for something that generates OPML for your entire reading list. I’ll soon be adding support for generating OPML based on the reader’s tagging system.
http://www.shokk.com/blog/articles/tag/feedonfeeds

]]> By: Alek http://aaronmentele.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Alek Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:50:40 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2006/04/08/meet-your-new-friend-the-opml-reading-list/#comment-37 <p>Now the rss readers need to get on the ball and allow us to subscribe to reading lists. You're right, OPML itself only gets you half way there - it's the reading list that will be significant. </p> Now the rss readers need to get on the ball and allow us to subscribe to reading lists. You’re right, OPML itself only gets you half way there – it’s the reading list that will be significant.

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