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trendmatcher · 4 months ago

Looks good in writing, but it does'nt work for me:
http://tw.opml.org/get?user=trendmatcher

dave · 4 months ago

It's working. This is what I see when I click on the link.

http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom...

I'm using Firefox/Mac -- it depends what browser you're using -- some of them aren't rendering it correctly. Try saving the text to local file and opening it with a text editor. You'll see it's all there.

trendmatcher · 4 months ago

Thanks for your quick response!I'm using Google Chrome, but I'll try Firefox
for this one.
Thanks again!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Willem Karssenberg
www.trendmatcher.nl

Judah Lim · 4 months ago

On Google Chrome, just do a right-click -> view page source. You'll see the result.

someBrad · 4 months ago

Is the subscription list fixed at the time I generate it? If I subscribe to http://tw.opml.org/get?user=jayrosen_nyu today and Jay makes some changes in his list next week, do I have to subscribe to the new list or will my list change as his does?

philliptorrone · 4 months ago

dave, nice work - i was just thinking that my list of followers would be something that i'd like to share with folks who want to follow people that do open source hardware, it's a good collectiob - there just isn't an easy way to share a list at all. good stuff.

i also did a quick test/post about this
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/08/04/twitter...

dave · 4 months ago

Thanks Phil. Your good opinion means everything! :-)

I got a few more ideas where this one came from...

Dave

philliptorrone · 4 months ago

"back in the day" and still to this day i set MAKE up as the only "OPML" magazine... well, technically you can subscribe to topics...

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/09/public...

let's say you like bicycles, here's an RSS feed...
http://www.make-digital.com/make/templates/sear...

this was 3 years ago! one day i think folks will subscribe to topics, or "playlists" or whatever and be able to carry those around from site, blog, magazine, etc.

and now that twitter is around perhaps i'd subscribe to specific topics in a magazine or newspaper or site, and the authors of those topics could all be added to my follow list, etc.

good stuff, keep it up. i'll use it :)

dave · 4 months ago

I call them reading lists and this time around I think we're going to make
them popular.

I do a weekly podcast with Jay Rosen, NYU Journalism prof, and he's
carefully managing his follow list in Twitter so that it is itself a
resource for journalism. I think a lot of people have figured this out that
subscription lists can be dynamic.

Phil read the stuff on the home page of this site and on the walkthrough and
see the big picture of what we're doing.

http://rsscloud.org/

http://rsscloud.org/walktrough.html

It's really odd that there has been zero press on this. They're just not
paying attention. But there are quite a few developers working on this stuff
now. And the users are figuring it out too.

philliptorrone · 4 months ago

will do, i'll check it out - reading lists it is, i like the sound of it!

Bryan Schuetz · 4 months ago

This is great, I'm going to be importing my OPML data into a Fever install http://feedafever.com/ which is meant for analyzing "regular" rss feeds (where regular means blog articles I suppose) to see what is being talked about most amongst your subscriptions and elevating those things up to a "What's Hot" page.

I'm wondering what it will do with all the tinyURLS not sure if it will be smart enough to identify hot topics or not. If it is then I'll essentially have my own personal twitter meme tracker.

bryan Schuetz · 4 months ago

On closer examination because Twitter doesn't include the anchor tags around the tiny URLS this won't work. Too bad.

dave · 4 months ago

Don't give up yet. It's not that hard to write a processor that converts the tiny urls to whatever you want. Maybe Yahoo Pipes can do what you need? Worth a look...

thingles · 4 months ago

This is great! Thanks for making it available!

Ivan Kirigin · 4 months ago

How is this different from the social graph methods in the Twitter API, besides including a bit more data?
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Met...

dave · 4 months ago

It uses the Twitter API to build the OPML -- which is more or less a standard format for exchanging subscription lists. The difference is format, nothing more.

Ivan Kirigin · 4 months ago

Thanks. I don't know much about the space. What kinds of tools exchange subscription lists?

Philip John · 4 months ago

This'd make a really good basis for a follower-backup service. I've known people to have their accounts hacked/suspended and have to start new ones so it gives them a way to store their followers in a readable format that an app can then digest and re-follow everyone. I can't wait to get the source and build that app!

chrisheuer · 4 months ago

Dave. Seriously. Absolutely fantastic work on this one - thank you so much. I have needed this / wanted this for so long...

dave · 4 months ago

Thanks Chris!!

Glad people like this one.

The code will be released shortly.

Dave

ranjitp · 4 months ago

Very useful, thanks. Another mode of consumption is to run the OPML feed bundle through an automatic tagging system and generate a term cloud. Here's the output from Jay Rosen's subscriptions, with the top 100 terms: http://mashlogic.com/mash-feeds/details?id=182. You can click on each term to see the relevant tweets. If you have the MashLogic client you can "subscribe" to this and see links from these terms on any web page.

Andrew · 4 months ago

Hey Dave, wrote up a quick howto to get this on Friendfeed and searchable. http://andrew.leahey.org/archiving-all-of-your-...