Comments on: Thinking of community feed mixers http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/08/12/thinking-of-community-rss-mixers Distributed Action Research, communities of practice and social objects by Andy Roberts Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:14:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Pito Salas http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/08/12/thinking-of-community-rss-mixers#comment-428 Pito Salas Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:59:42 +0000 http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/08/12/thinking-of-community-rss-mixers#comment-428 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.) 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.)

]]> By: Marjolein Hoekstra http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/08/12/thinking-of-community-rss-mixers#comment-429 Marjolein Hoekstra Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:55:20 +0000 http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2006/08/12/thinking-of-community-rss-mixers#comment-429 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 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

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