Amyloo waxes poetic about OPML: “Let it live, let it breathe and grow. I think you deny OPML an essential aspect of its nature when you seal it off like that. Make it less like a Ball jar and more like an egg.”

Actually she is wondering whether she can subscribe to a reading list that is stored on her own local drive in an OPML file.

I never miss a chance to show off some cool BlogBridge feature, so I couldn’t resist!

It turns out that in BlogBridge subscribing to a local file OPML  is easy and works fine and dynamically.

All you need to do is to create a Guide and and subscribe to a ‘file’ URL (e.g. “file://myreadinglist.opml” and life is good! BlogBridge will build the Guide based on the listed OPML file and periodically check for changes.

p.s. Of course even easier is to just Publish the BlogBridge guide (single checkbox) and an OPML will be created, and published to the world for you to give out to all your friends! Even easier.

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