I’m really excited to be able to announce a major step in BlogBridge support of Reading Lists.

Yes, with today’s Weekly Release, BlogBridge can now be used to publish Reading Lists!

All you have to do is to mark a particular BlogBridge Guide as “published”, do a Sync, and voila, your Guide is now a reading list available to the whole internet. Only you know the URL, so you can decide who to tell about it.

Let me do this step by step.

Step 1. Select the BlogBridge Guide which you would like to publish as a reading list, and call up the Properties… dialog box (it’s on the context menu.) You will notice a new tab on this dialog box, called “Publishing”. On that tab, simply check “Enable Publishing” and give your new reading list a name.

Step 2: Synchronize with the BlogBridge Service, the way you normally do. Note that you need an activated BlogBridge service account to make this work. Of course, it’s (still) free.

Step 3: There is no Step 3.

At this point, your Reading List is published on the web.

You can determine its hyperlink by calling up the Guide Properties again, and you will see the Publication URL and Publication Date. You can click the Copy button to put the URL on your clipboard so you can email it to all your friends.

Please play with this and let us know how it goes. Feedback is essential at this point!

Here are some URLs to the Reading Lists that I published.

• My own Best Bets List
• My list of Macintosh Related Feeds
• My Feeds on “probation” - found them, don’t know yet if I like them

To drive the point home: These links are to standard OPML Reading Lists. They can be used with any tool that can use OPML. Whether it be outline editors, OPML crawlers, or, yes, BlogBridge. You can obviously use them as Reading Lists yourself. You can create a Guide, right now, and use the Reading List that I just published, to populate your Guide.

As usual, remember that Version 2.12 is a “Weekly” (development) release. It’s quite solid but not bulletproof. Those of you running the weekly release will get an automatic upgrade. If you are running the stable release and are interested in trying the weekly release, see below.

Please play with the new stuff and let us know how it works, how it breaks, what you like and what you hate. We aim to please!

• Link to Weekly release
• Link to complete change history
• Link to explanation of different release types

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