A few days ago, Dave Winer posted some Guidelines for validating OPML. I know, hilarious, but if you can stop laughing for a second you’ll notice this: A subscription list document is a possibly multiple-level list of subscriptions to feeds. Each sub-element of the body of the OPML document is a node of type rss or an...

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OK, so in my last post I rather eloquently described my distaste for the neutrino.xml format. My problems with it are manifold. In no particular order: it’s yet another meta-format and yet another format to parse

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And now for something, err, completely normal for bloggers: talking about aggregators. Because of Gareth I’ve been spending some time looking at different desktop aggregators. I haven’t used one as my main aggregator for about a year now, choosing instead to use the pretty-good JabRSS so it’s been an interesting journey to see what’s been happening in ...

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Christof asked (via JabRSS growth by Jim) and who am I to disappoint? To add to the current feature request list I’d like: import/export OCS ...

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FeedDemon first impressions: the best GUI of any RSS reader (certainly in terms of polish, at least, my screen however just isn’t wide enough for the three column approach to beat the classic three panes – websites just aren’t designed to be viewed at ~1/3 your monitor width). excellent “newspaper view” summary of all the fe...

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OPML2HTML.js can now deal with hierarchical structures like those output by SharpReader (due to this comment on the LazyWeb). Lovely.

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The ‘get out’ list of blogs I regularly read (over on the right) is now generated on the fly, using javascript, from an OPML file created using the “export” function of Syndirella. I got tired of having my blogroll out of sync with my RSS read...

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