Super Reading List OPML
What if you have several reading lists published? In other words, lets say you have 3 different guides, each of which is published as a reading list. As you know, BlogBridge will give you three separate Reading List URLs pointing to an OPML file.
For example, I have two BlogBridge Reading Lists, “Pito’s Favorites“, “Java” and “Blogging and Bloggers” In general you can access a BlogBridge Reading List with a URL that looks like this:
http://www.blogbridge.com/rl/<usernumber>/readinglistname.
In my case, my <usernumber> is 291. You will have a different number.
3 Guides, 3 Reading Lists, 3 OPML Urls… But what if you wanted just one?
As of today, you can get all your published reading lists as one big fat opml by linking to http://www.blogbridge.com/rl/<usernumber>.opml.
So for example, mine are at: http://www.blogbridge.com/rl/291.opml
This has lots of interesting applications — really any application which can read OPML could use this. For example:
- Web access to BlogBridge: Import your published reading lists into Rojo or BlogLines to get vanilla web access to your feeds.
- Do some Grazin’: Use Grazr to graze around your published reading lists, for example, click here.
Thanks to Kathleen Gilroy for inspiring this idea with her post to our forum!
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Blogbridge: mother Reading List
Blogbridge have enabled users to combine their Reading Lists into one big OPML file…I wonder if you can select which Reading Lists you would like to include.
Anyway what this seems to do is organise your Reading Lists into folders within the on…
Trackback by Library clips — April 2, 2006 @ 11:49 pm
Well, thats all very nice.
Now where do I find out what my usernumber is? It doesn’t seem to be anywhere on the Blogbridge client, thats for sure.
Jon
Comment by Jonathan Poulton — April 6, 2006 @ 12:33 pm
Jon
Here’s the way you do it. Decide which guides you want to publish, go to Guide/Properties - the Publish tab. Ask for them to be published. Do a Sync Now.
Now if you check the URLs of each of the published guides (Guide/Properties/Publish tab again) you will see the user number.
I agree it’s a little obscure and we need to fix that. What we do want to make sure is that you and only you decides who knows the number so you can use that for a little bit of security.
Btw, check out http://www.blogbridge.com/forum
- Pito
Comment by Pito Salas — April 6, 2006 @ 1:03 pm