Dave Winer has created a catchily-named service – Share Your OPML. It doesn’t do anything very clever yet, but put together with some collaborative filtering software I am sure it could… To explain for the 99% of the world who have better things to do with their time than memorising TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) or in this case FLAs – RSS readers can normally import and export OPML files which are simply lists of the sites you subscribe to. What ‘Share Your OPML’ does, then, is let you compare what blogs and other news sources you read regularly with others. Blogrolling, which has a much bigger installed base, could do this too but so far it hasn’t done much with its data (except produce its own top 100 list).
Anyhow, if those of you who do read this via RSS could pop along to that site and sign up – you might push this humble blog into Winer’s top 100!
P.S. If you’re wondering what on earth an RSS reader is, I “posted about that”:https://blog.org/archives/cat_weblogs.html#000880 here too.
Hmm… I think I understand the idea and like it, but hitting the site gives me the following stuff (below) which is pretty incomprehensible to the unititiated. As usual, you have to be one of the clued up to join, which rather goes against the sharing idea. The sidebar doesn’t even define OPML.
Just playing dumb….
That’s the problem with blogs. Doesn’t put the intro/welcome at the top
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New features: RSS aggregator, polling, event log, HTML links
1. Feeds.Scripting.Com now has a built-in RSS Aggregator that is automatically subscribed to the feeds in the Top 100. It’s another view into the community. The aggregator updates every hour at 15 minutes after the hour. If a site falls off the Top 100 we still read it, so it’s also a way of seeing where we’ve come from. The feeds on the list change, but it happens slowly.
Comment by David Wilcox — 9 January 2004 @ 9:34 pm
Update to my previous comment…Maybe it was just Friday night incompetence. I’ve worked it out now. But I do think the site would benefit from a step-by-step guide as well as the FAQ. Now to push my site….(and vanity)
Comment by David Wilcox — 10 January 2004 @ 11:15 am
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