May 12th, 2006 in Lifehack

More to Read, More to Consume

If you haven’t already heard about Share Your OPML, it’s quite a concept: It’s a site where people or sites share the address to their RSS feed, thus making it far easier to gather up new sites to add to your RSS reader of choice.

The case for skimming more content via a single RSS reader is evident. One doesn’ t have time to visit every site they want to read, and further, if that site doesn’t have an update, it’s even less reason to go and see what’s changed since last time. Pulling all your content into one browser window or client-side application and just reading all the posts that appeal to you in that format is a time saver, bar none.

It’s also a great way to find new ideas through the aggregate of other people’s experiences.

If you want the entire TOP 100 for the site, select the XML box at the very bottom of the page, and that would guarantee you quite a collection of thought leaders to peruse on any given day.

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Jonathan Peterson says on May 13th, 2006 at 1:37 am

What is the big deal with Share Your OPML. Bloglines, BlogBridge, Technorati and others do a great job of suggesting “more like this” for stories and feeds.

The RSS feed you mention is just a list of the 100 most popular RSS feeds (not stories) uploaded to Share Your OPML. My Yahoo probably has 100 times more users than Share Your OPML, what’s wrong with the list of most popular feeds that they’ve been publishing for a year or so?

Other than the Dave Winer stamp of approval, what does Share Your OPML have that a dozens other things don’t?
ChrisBrogan says on May 13th, 2006 at 2:27 am

There are many roads to the finish line. One useful part of the Share Your OPML page is that it gathers feeds in one place and makes it easier to load than some of the other solutions out there. My Yahoo! is another great source.

Another reason to post this is to remind folks that RSS feeds are useful in cutting down on site-by-site reading.

Thanks for the comment, Jonathan.