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I know - nobody reads blogrolls anymore, but I needed something mindnumbingly trivial to do for a few minutes. So, I had Blogbridge spit out an OPML file of my subscriptions, and I’m updating my various linkositories (Bloglines, Links) with the updated goods. Bloglines has been chewing on the file for 15 minutes, so no promises that it’s being updated successfully there…
477 feeds - that’s actually down a bit from what I was reading before - and it looks like several feeds have borked htmlUrl values so you might need to grab the opml source to get more info on some feeds.
Blogbridge does a few “off colour” things with the opml export - largely for the better, but still outside of the spec so it gets iffy - like adding in my rating for each feed (from 0 - 4 stars), and an icon for each “folder” - but that’s only meaningful within Blogbridge itself.
Update: Bloglines tech support elves were able to get my opml file imported, after the web interface choked on it. Not sure what they might have done differently, but it’s been synced to my latest feeds.
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477 feeds! Dude, Janice is right, you have a problem! But have no fear, I hear the 1st meeting of Blogholics Anonymous is meeting at Blamb’s house the night before Northern Voices
Hey Darcy,
You going to Northern Voice?
Sami - yeah, I’m heading to Northern Voice. I’ll be taking time off to do it, and hopefully cashing in Airmiles to get out there, but I’ll be there! I’ll be helping to conduct a session on education-related stuff at Moose Camp, too.
D’Arcy, do you know of anyway to determine who has added my blog to their RSS feed?
nah. that’s a weak spot in RSS subscriptions. Kinda like a black hole. Some services try to gather metrics, but you have to give control of your feed over to them - something I’m not comfortable doing. You could crunch your apache logs looking for the rss feeds to see how many unique IP addresses request it, but that’s only an estimate (doesn’t account for Bloglines, Google subscriptions).
There’s also a plugin for WordPress called WP-Stats that can be taught to keep some metrics on RSS feeds, but again neglects the multi-reader-on-one-IP apps like Bloglines, etc…