Finding new RSS feeds

Want to expand your RSS feed list, but don’t want to trawl the inter­net hop­ing to find rel­ev­ant feeds, one option is to upload an OPML of your cur­rent feeds to share.opml.org and see what other people with sim­ilar RSS read­ing habits are reading.

I did and found that I,Paul Boag and Stu­art Colville read a num­ber of the same feeds. I also found via their feed lists (Paul’s and Stuart’s) a few (ok a dozen) new and inter­est­ing feeds.

The pro­cess is simple, export an OPML file of your RSS feeds. As OPML is the stand­ard import/export format for RSS almost all RSS read­ers soft­ware or web based will export to OPML. From Bloglines is a three mouse click excer­cise (the edit tab, export sub­scrip­tions, save file as). You then remove any feeds that you do not make want to make pub­lic (in my case the com­ment and meas­uremap feeds for this blog), register with share.opml.org and upload your OPML file, then choose Sub­scrip­tions Like Mine and start explor­ing and you will find some inter­est­ing feeds, recom­men­ded by people of sim­ilar taste to yourself.

And while check­ing the URLs for this post found that my recently updated feeds matched the feeds of Marc McHale, even if he is a Pom­pey sup­porter. Time for more research.

My feeds on Share Your OPML

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