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Blog Rolls and OPML

Scoble Says:

I really hate my blogroll. I don't want to keep it up. Too much of a pain in the ass. I wish I had a little tool to make it easier. Plus, if I really put all the 400 sites on it that I visit regularly, it'd get way way too long. Clearly people get value out of blogrolls, though. I regularly get visits from links to me on other sites.

Most news aggregators can output a OPML file of all the RSS feeds. This file could be quickly transformed into a list of html links using a little XSLT. I wonder why none of the blog apps have done this yet? I am sure most people would prefer to upload their OPML file then manually add all the links.

Scott: Let me know if you would be interested in adding something like this to dotnetweblogs.com, I could whip up a quick little user control to make it all work. 

- James

Posted: Mar 19 2003, 07:04 PM by jamesavery | with 3 comment(s)

Comments

David Stone said:

That would be nice...very nice. :) +1!
# March 19, 2003 4:49 PM

Steve Makofsky said:

I ended up writing a small aspx page to do the opml transform of my blogroll to html. It's great - I just output the OPML from Syndirella, and drop it into a directory on the website. Everything else is automatic.

http://www.furrygoat.com/Misc/BlogRoll.aspx

If anyone wants the source, just drop me a line.
# March 22, 2003 7:26 AM

Richard Soderberg said:

You can find the MT OPML Blogroll plugin at http://eekeek.org/perl/mt-plugins/blogroll.pl
# May 11, 2003 9:03 PM
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