Library clips

Basically TailRank is a memetracker, it is also a personal memetracker like megite…enter your OPML and find the hot news from these feeds, it will all cluster similar/related items from the rest of the blogosphere.

A new feature is to memetrack just one feed or post:

Enter a URL of a blog eg. TechCrunch, and you will see that each TechCrunch post has a cluster of similar/related posts from the blogosphere…and you can also track a single post (thread) by RSS or IM.

At the moment I’m using Sphere to find related posts to my blog, but TailRank is much more, because it gives some sort of thread and context feel.

I suppose I could just have my own feed in my megite OPML, this way it would show related posts from the blogosphere…I could probably also do this with WizAg and MyFeedz.

See the blog post for the latest additions.

ResultR is an interesting way to create your own meta-search engines, or just use it as it is.

Click on create engine, choose engines from different categories, then give it a name.

Create as many as you like:
- your home page will have a list of the meta-engines you have made
- even grab some code (widget) to put on your website

I have made a new OPML Directory (via OPML Workstation) that consists of a few reading lists from:

- My Technorati Favourites
- Memetrackers/Recommendations
- Google Reader

I could of kept going and added my whole life in this widget.

Top 10 OPML & RSS

Top 50 OPML & RSS

OPML Directory

Search my Top 50

Check out my Top 10 (alternative OPML for my Top 10)

Who Subscribes to Library clips

Other ways to make a Reading List besides Technorati favourites:
See these two posts from a while back.

Some of the public RSS Readers generate an OPML:
- Blogdigger groups
- Kinja
- Top 10 sources
- MySyndicaat (I think)
- Feedbite
- Feed Collectors
- Bozpages

Ooops, did I mention the BlogBridge feed library.

NOTE

Some of the feeds from my Technorati Favourites do not work as these blogs are not indexed by Technorati:
Library Stuff
Anjo
A feed is born
Peter Scott
Feed Files
Gigaom - software

And some feeds are not picked up by Grazr properly:
Digital Inspiration
Knowledge Jolt with Jack
A Consuming Experience
3spots
Dennis McDonald’s ALL KIND FOOD Recent Postings

The Windows Live Search OPML Generator creates an OPML containing feeds of your choice based on a search.

Basically enter a search term, and it will match blogs/feeds about that topic, then select the one’s you like and generate an OPML.

What a great idea, why didn’t Technorati Blog Directory think of that, or any of the other blog directories?

Actually what I’d like to do after generating the OPML is to graze it in Grazr, and do some window shopping before I decide to load in this OPML to my RSS Reader.
If there are feeds I don’t like, I could perhaps delete them from my OPML, before I load them in.

I like this idea, especially for novices, as finding feeds is the problem at the moment, I think anyway:

1. Browse a feed directory or search

2. Tick the feeds you think you want (perhaps do another search and keep adding feeds to your bucket)

3. When you are done, graze your collection to see if you like what each feed is about

4. Once you have grazed and pruned your list, then load in the OPML to your RSS Reader

NOTE: Refering to step 1, instead of creating your own collection, you may want to browse the ready made topic package directory, kind of like the BlogBridge feed library or the Technorati Blog Directory.
Graze this, perhaps prune it, then import.

Related are keyword search generators and others:
OPML Generator
Social Bookmarking RSS Feeds - OPML Generator
KebberFegg
TagJag
Feedshow OPML Builder
Persistent News Search OPML Feedroll Generator
OPML Generator - Input
del.icio.us Reading List form
pageLinks2OPML

They all generate an OPML, but the different thing about Windows Live Search OPML Generator is it is not generating RSS search feeds all packaged into an OPML.
Instead you search in a feed directory, and choose the feeds you like, then generate your OPML…so the difference is these are feeds, not search feeds.

OPML is handy for a lot of uses, basically it packages data for exchange or browsing at a GUI.

This type of data, can be recorded data, like Attention data, or a feed list, or a link list, or a text book outline, or an OPML Directory, or a combination,
etc…

Let me know if you know of any other OPML uses, here are some things I’d like to see using OPML, most of these are in their basic stages of development.

Search in an OPML

Just say I had an OPML URL for one of my del.icio.us tags, and I wanted to full-text search all the bookmarks within this tag…the idea is to enter this OPML into a search service and then enter a search term, and you are off.

Now just imagine I made my own OPML (at a place like OPML Workstation), maybe this OPML could contain lots of folders composed of links, feeds, texts, and wait, other OPML’s. That’s right, an item in my OPML can be another OPML (called an include), I could add heaps of these to my OPML.

Just say each of these OPML includes had includes of their own, and so on…this would be a huge OPML Directory.

Now if I enter this OPML URL I would be searching full-text across a massive directory, or I could take one of the OPML includes from my OPML and choose to just search within that…more.
This could lead to communal topic engines.

Subscribe to an OPML or get services to subscribe to your OPML

Be able to plugin my OPML anywhere, so when I update my OPML all these services I have it plugged into are updated.
It seems every service I join I can only add feeds, or an OPML file…even if I can add an OPML URL, it is just for the purpose of batch loading.
BlogBridge is the pioneer, why not when you join a service (like the myriad of RSS Readers I try out), get it to subscribe to your OPML itself, instead of just batch loading the feeds via OPML.

Now that OPML’s are not just files, they can be an OPML URL, why not take advantage of the potential dynamics.

I just noticed that Share Your OPML (SYO) also subscribes to you OPML, when I made changes to my OPML, thay were reflected to the OPML I shared at SYO.

I’m trying to get Ziki to do this, and other services I share my OPML with.

OPML archive or latest posts for your blog

Wrap all my blogs posts in OPML…basically a blog archive.
- OPML for latest posts (this post points to a bookmarklet that will identify the blog post title links on your blog homepage and wrap them in OPML.)
- The above bookmarklet scrapes the blog homepage for blog post title links, you could also do this for a blog post category or month page

BUT, since it just scrapes the title links on a given page (home page, category or month) this makes it limited to the latest posts only.
So, if one of my blog categories spans over 5 pages, the bookmarklet won’t work as it is only useful for one page.

Why do I want to do this?

Well I could pop an OPML for each month of posts or category in Grazr in the sidebar of my blog, this way you could browse and read my whole blog in Grazr.
Or maybe you want to grab a month of posts and import the OPML into del.icio.us…maybe one day ie. grab a bunch of links and put them somewhere else.

Anyway, OPML Utils could be the answer, if only it would take off.

NOTE: check out The RSS blog, or the Rmail blog, you will notice that each month has an RSS feed, and all of these month feeds are wrapped in OPML.
The difference is that each month doesn’t just have the last few posts of the month, it has all the posts, so it is an archive.

This means you can graze an archive of this blog by month in Grazr, see what I mean:

Randy could put a Grazr on his sidebar, this way you could browse his blog in a small window, or as you see it is a widget on my blog, that’s amazing, you are browsing someone else’s entire blog on my blog.