What I Forgot to Say Saturday …
During the discussion period at Saturday’s program on weblogs and feeds, I knew there were at least two things I told people we’d get back to then, but I couldn’t remember what they were. Monday morning, I did. One was Share Your OPML (SYO). The other was anonymous blogging.
I won’t bore my readers by writing about SYO again. It’s a service that enables people to share their subscription lists. You can use it to see what feeds people subscribe to and, if you maintain a feed/feeds, it’s one way you can learn who subscribes to it/them. OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language.
Here are links to my previous posts with more details:
- Who Subscribes to your Feed?: how feed creators can figure out who to subscribes to their feed(s). (This post was supposed to serve as a reminder to me to talk about SYO in my next presentation … oh, well.)
- Share Your OPML: how to down- and upload subscription lists for those on Harvard’s server and a few details about what SYO is
- Finding “Librarian” Feeds describes how to use an application programmer Andrew Grumet built on SYO to find resources with certain words in their titles.
- The Shifted Librarian on Shared Subscription Lists explores why we should share our subscription lists in the first place.
- A few other posts mention SYO, too.
Anonymous blogging:
- Blogging Anonymously: I wrote this longer post about anonymous blogging a few weeks ago. It covers what I would have said on Saturday had I remembered to say something.
