A Gift For You, In OPML. Thanks to all of you who have contributed RSS and Atom feeds of your school’s content for Thomson Peterson’s Edufeeds.com, the directory of college and university feeds. The directory is pushing 900 feeds, and it grows each week. It’s time to give something back.
This week, the directory began supporting OPML exports of feeds in individual directory nodes, making it easy for you to begin subscribing to large blocks of feeds in the directory by taking an OPML snaphot and importing it into your feed reader (e.g. Bloglines). From there, of course, you can prune any feeds you don’t plan to scan.
I can think of several instances where this could be helpful. You could probably think of many more.
Let’s say you’re in library acquisitions and you want to keep up with acquisitions made by libraries around the world. You can browse to the Libraries-New Acquisitions node, click on the OPML icon, and in a short time you’ll be subscribed to (today) 111 feeds containing information about new acquisitions.
Or let’s say you’re doing research on podcasting in higher education. Browse to the Podcasts node, pull your export, and there you’ll have a nice set of podcast feeds to begin your work.
Happy Holidays from all of us at Thomson Peterson’s!
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