OPML or Blogroll sidebar buzz!
The Bee Blog has a good idea about substituting a blogroll with the latest buzz (posts) from a blogroll.
You could do this 2 ways:
If your blogroll (usually your OPML) had an RSS feed, you could re-syndicate it the usual way via a javascript box for the sidebar of your blog…this would show the latest posts from your blogroll.
Problem is my Bloglines OPML doesn’t have an RSS feed, I’d have to use a tool like FeedDigest to splice all the feeds in my OPML into a re-mix RSS feed…or export my OPML into a Blogdigger Group, which in turn has an RSS feed (then whack the java code into the sidebar).
…see more here.
The other way has a step before seeing actual post titles
…splice all your blogroll or OPML (I guess your blogroll may be just a portion of your OPML) into a feed at TagCloud, then re-syndicate the code of your-computer generated hot keywords-from your blogroll/OPML into your sidebar.
In this way, from your sidebar, you can click on hot keywords from your blogroll/OPML, this takes you to the TagCloud website to view these posts.
It’s almost like having your RSS reader (OPML) content (organized by keyword) on the sidebar of your blog
…great idea!
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Sounds confusing as hell, but I want learn how to do it.
Comment by NickD — September 2, 2005 @ 9:12 pm