OPML file #5

I've uploaded another .ompl file. cdlc4 and cdlc5 combined should have all the currently listed blogs from the Google spreadsheet whose URLs worked.

(I fixed file #4 so it really should be just the Learn with CDLC blogs and not just my whole .opml export. Apparently I clicked 'no' to save changes the other day. >.<)

Instructions for importing into Google Reader, if you're catching up and need them still.

Goodreads, day 2

Hm, I deviated from my 3-5 page average yesterday and rambled on quite a bit.

I poked around goodreads a bit more since Polly friended me (thanks, Polly!), and I looked through all the friend suggestions it gave me (since now we had a friend in common). There were a lot of names I've seen from both this project and various mailing lists, which was a nice reminder that the library world has a 6-degrees-of-separation thing going on.

A 3rd OPML

Here's a few more of us who have recently added blogs to the Learn with CDLC Things: .ompl file 3.

PS: If you need the previous ones, or the instructions, I have them all tagged "opml files."

Continued blog observations (and another .opml)

I read a handful of heavily commented blogs regularly, and I also moderate an online forum, so I've been noticing how the different blog platforms handle comment threading.

Comment systems that allow replies to replies, threading the conversation, really help to foster discussion, since it's easy to tell who is talking to whom. With out the reply-to-comment, it can be more difficult to unravel the threads of the conversation. Thus far Blogger doesn't seem to do comment threading; WordPress does.

Seeing how different people name, design, and use their blogs for a shared purpose is fascinating! Which tools people choose, how they use them, and how they envision the relationships between themselves, their blogs, and the central purpose (the workshop) are all very interesting to me.

A large number of us are using Blogger, but WordPress is a significant minority (compared to a paltry number of Posterous and Edublogs users). A large number of us are using post on the left/menus on the right layouts, with a handful putting the menu-type items (archives, 'about me' sections, etc.) on the left or trying out the three-column options. I wonder if there's a correlation with something (like right-handed/left-handed), or if it's just because that's the layout most of the default templates suggest first.

Given how interesting all those things are to me, you'd think I would be better at filling out conference evaluations. *sigh*

And last but certainly not least: the .opml file for all the blogs added to the spreadsheet since I last looked at it. If I've missed any, please let me know! This is just the new ones, so you shouldn't have to worry about it accidentally importing duplicate feeds.

To save others some time

I made an .opml file with the RSS feeds for all of us so far. I'll add to it as people continue to register their blogs.

If you want to use it, you can either right-click on the link and save-as, or let your browser open it, copy and paste the contents into a text file, and save it as an .opml file.

After that, you can import it into whatever blog reader you're using if it allows .opml imports. For Google Reader:

1. Go to Reader Settings (it's a little cogwheel icon in the top right of the page for me, next to my logged in name);
2. Click on Import/Export in the settings;
3. Browse for and upload the file.

Google Reader will then pop you into your Subscriptions page after the file has uploaded, and if you want to change tags, you can. (They should import with a "Learn with CDLC" tag.)

(Save the time of the reader, right?)

PS: A selective .opml file wasn't hard to make - I just exported my Feedreader .opml, then deleted the non-Learn with CDLC feeds, as they're all arranged hierarchically in <outline> tags.