Library clips

Since using OPML2PDF, as explained in an earlier post, I’ve decided to put my favourite feeds at the top of my RSS reader as OPML2PDF only reads the first 10 feeds in your RSS reader.

Micropersuation has a post, Ten Blogs I Would Take to a Desert Island, and this put more emphasis on my thoughts for being able to swap OPML packets.

Is there a way for me to send someone just a selection from my OPML?

Further more, a way to share my top 10 blogs so someone can incorporate them into their RSS reader with one click.

I’m aware of the service Share Your OPML, but I’m not sure if you can manipulate your OPML.

I can sort of do this on Bloglines (Tell a Friend feature) but this doesn’t generate a URL from a selection of my OPML (a refined version of my OPML) in order to share around…it happens automatically. So the only OPML Bloglines has is the Export feature, which is the OPML of my whole account.

The only way I could make a OPML packet from my main OPML is to manually edit the OPML file myself, as explained by Technogeekery.

Hang on, I think I’ve answered my own question in an earlier post with the new tool OPML editor.

Has anyone used this tool?

It seems to do a whole lot of stuff…I wonder if there is a tool to just simply create OPML packets, similar to the many simple (one function) tools that splice feeds.

Also see RSS for your OPML?

TOP 25 BLOGS (random order)

Essentials

Resource shelf
Micropersuation
Library Stuff
The RSS and Marketing Diary
Read/Write Web
Robin Good’s Latest News
Tech Crunch
Many-to-Many
RSS Compendium Blog
Search Engine Watch Blog

Get a PDF of recent posts from my top 10 blogs

I’d like to say here is the OPML of my top ten blogs

2nd place

Peter Scott’s Library Blog
CogDogBlog
The Community Engine Blog
Research Buzz
Weblogged-News
Marcus P. Zillman
Phil Bradley’s Blog
Google Blogoscoped
Moonwatcher
blogdriverwaltz.com

Extras

Knowledge Jolt with Jack
You’re It!
Mathemagenic
Common Craft
Old Daily

Only about a ¼ seem to be blogs by librarians…my interests seemed to have changed over the last year (I do read about 25 or so library blogs, but they are no longer my essentials).

This list of my top 25 blogs reflects my current reading, it’s bound to change over the next year as my interests change, and evolve.
At the moment I can’t foresee anyone knocking any of the heavy weights off the top ten (only way this will happen is if I change my interests away from the social web – blogs, rss, social bookmarking, wiki’s, etc… can’t see that happening anytime soon).

Although some blogs that were my “die hard” essentials have dropped off my top ten, these being, Mathemagenic, and The Community Engine Blog…reason being is their content is starting to move into new areas that I’m not ready for yet, or that don’t interest me as much (I suppose they can’t keep blogging about the same topics for ever).

Then there is a really new blog like Tech Crunch that instantly makes it into my top ten.

Who knows what’s round the corner!

See others at Technorati tag: 10blogs

continue…

Here is the link to RSS feeds in Google News.

I didn’t really use the email alert feature, instead I used the 3rd party services for RSS alerts

…but now Google News has finally implemented RSS feeds…hooray!

3 types of feeds

Sections feeds

Search feeds

Google Customised News page feed

(wow, you can get a feed for my Customised Google News page…I wonder if you could get a feed from just a section in my Customised Google News page)
This is kind of similar to getting a feed for your whole Bloglines account (OPML)

[via Blogdriverwaltz]