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In the latest round of updates to Blogbridge, they added support for hosting groups of feeds as OPML files. They also just added a service that renders every OPML file as a javascript, ala Feed2JS. So, you can easily embed any group of feeds from your copy of Blogbridge, into any web page, by putting in a simple javascript element. This is a pretty cool set of features. Yet another reason why I love Blogbridge

I’ve just revamped my Links section to take advantage of these features. Every time I synchronize my subscriptions to the Blogbridge server (which is something like every week) the blogroll gets updated. As opposed to the previous blue-moonly updates.

Added bonus? Each section of my blogroll is available as OPML, for easy peasy importing into whatever RSS reader I’m trying today.

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.