It’s been quite a week for BlogBridge. Our release of BlogBridge 2.13 (Stable) has allowed lots of people who don’t like to play with development builds to try and have fun with it. Let’s just say that our download server has been busy.

With all the cool attention on the concept of “Reading Lists” and the many different and powerful ways that they can be used. I won’t recap it here, but there are lots of really interesting links to follow.

However… I want to mention what I might call “Reading Lists for the rest of us” – the mundane, but at least as if not more important role of Reading Lists, as a way to anyone to share their expertise.

Whether it’s your expertise on Olympic Snow boarding, or my expertise on Esperanto Humor. Neither one of us knows an OPML from a hole in the wall. Reading Lists allow you and me to share our enthusiasm with others in the form of a recommended reading list. I think this is a big deal.

And while you don’t need BlogBridge to do this, we do make it brain-dead-simple. A single checkbox enables the publishing of your Guide to the web. No OPML, no scripting, no FTP, no nuttin.

So in the fun and excitement of Semantic Web and OPML name spaces, and dynamic, meta-dynamic, and hyper-dynamic reading lists, it’s easy to lose sight of the universal appeal of sharing ones enthusiasm.