After my recent posting where I asked people which RSS feeds they read, I received several responses. One of them is Peter’s. Like me he was publishing an OPML file of his feeds already. OPML is a machine readable format that most RSS readers will be able to import, so you can subscribe to blogs I...
Imagine if there were a database of feeds we all subscribed to, and we could get recommendations of new feeds to follow, based on what we already follow.That's the idea behind Share Your OPML, a service I started in 2006. The story of SYO is one of success followed by scaling issues. Now we have better technology so it should scale better.Help us get it started by:1. Export your subscription list in whatever RSS reader or podcast client you use.2. Upload it to the new SYO site. (It's simple, just sign in with Twitter and drag-drop your OPML on the gray box. Takes less than a minute.)If you have questions, post a comment here. Dave
A new service that shares feed information gleaned from OPML subscription lists. It's a reboot of a service I had in 2006 which was quite popular.
Since the earliest days of NetNewsWire, before 1.0 even shipped, I wanted to make the subscriptions list on disk an OPML file. It seemed like using the standard format for listing RSS subscriptions would be a good idea. But I was never able to make that happen — until now, with NetNewsWire 5.0d7.
This plugin allows you to publish the contents of an OPML file in any WordPress post or page. Just put the URL of the file (it must be public on the internet) in between the quotes using this shortcode: [opml url=""]
It was 2003. I was just getting my first taste of blogging and similar experiments on the world wide web. Seemingly every blog I toured showcased a long list of the owner’s friends. These wer…
This thread actually prompts another question: where can I go to talk about RSS? Is there a Discord I can join? A mailing list? A blog comment section? Would love to know where people with experience working with RSS hang out. https://t.co/UIw7OJgJFd
— Micah R Ledbetter (@mrled) March 9, 2021
Dan Allosso (danallosso.substack.com)How I use Hypothesis myself and with my students
Come with me as I briefly explore Blogrolls and re-introducing them in 2021 and creating a WordPress Block for their display.
Keep your WordPress blogroll in sync with your feed reader.
"Multi WP Blog Search" - simple, straightforward tool for searching across the multiple WordPress sites that you choose to list - https://t.co/1je6xMlxFa
— Ian Guest (@IaninSheffield) September 25, 2020
*This* is why you always need to keep an eye on what @johnjohnston is up to. It slipped under my radar 1st time around.I too missed John's search tool, opps. Thank you for sharing it on Ian.
— Aaron Davis (@mrkrndvs) September 27, 2020
It has me thinking about @ChrisAldrich's recent reference to blogrolls/OPML. I wonder if something could be added to be able to search across the various sites listed on your own site?I think it would be a bit slow to get results from a lot of sites. Limited to WordPress too.
— john johnston (@johnjohnston) September 27, 2020
My sense is that RSS is having a mini resurgence. People are getting wary of the social media platforms and their rapacious appetite for data. We’re getting fatigued from notifications; our inboxes are overflowing. And people are saying that maybe, just maybe, RSS can help. So I’m seeing RSS being discussed more in 2020 than I have done for years. There are signs of life in the ecosystem.
