Bev Trayner has been thinking about feed mixers:
Em duas línguas: Still thinking of feed mixers
“When you joined the community you could subscribe to the feed mix which would give you separate feeds for the individual blogs. You could then go through at your leisure, trimming out the ones that you didn’t want to follow.”
I think this kind of thing is what OPML files are for. When someone joins the community, they would pick up the OPML file for it ( which somebody would have to maintain, I suppose) plonk it into their feedreader and hey presto they are subscribed to a whole bunch of blogs which they can then do what they like with. Trouble is, how do they get new ones added in automatically?
( see also Em duas línguas: Looking for the right RSS mixer )
Technorati Tags: RSSmix, aggregators, communitytools, OPML,
Update: See also Enterprise RSS
Andy Roberts is a writer who initiated DARnet. Contact me on aroberts@gmail.com or @aroberts on twitter
Hi Andy,
Have you looked at the so-called Reading Lists feature of BlogBridge: from how I understand your question “… how do they get new ones added in automatically?” this is exactly what you can do if you publish your OPML using BlogBridge. The OPML that you generate is hosted on the BlogBridge server and is updated as soon as you sync your groups of feeds with the server. The same mechanism works the other way around: BlogBridge lets you subscribe to any web-based OPML. If the OPML updates, the BlogBridge service will inform you about this so that you can approve of having the changes propagated onto your own subscriptions.
I use this mechanism a lot for the feed directories that I publish, one of which is a directory of feeds published by RSS Tool Vendors.
Best,
Marjolein Hoekstra
http://www.cleverclogs.org
Andy and “Em duas Linguas” … Check this out: http://www.blogbridge.com/?p=173 … a while back I was thinking about a similar idea and came up with the term Feed Jockeys for people who create and update these mixes/reading lists. In that sense, BlogBridge’s ability for users to share their reading lists is analogous to iTunes (and others’) idea of sharing playlists… FWIW.
- Pito
(p.s. I am one of the folks with BlogBridge.)