Get Lots of Women Tech Bloggers’ Feeds in One (OPML) File!
01.26.06Anne Zelenka of Anne2.0 has really pulled of quite a feat and helped answer the question "where are the women bloggers?" in a neat way using cutting edge tools. She created a bit of code that grabbed the blogroll from misbehaving.net, home of one of the most extensive lists of women bloggers, found the RSS feeds for those blogs and squeezed them all into one OPML file. That means there's one URL to copy and paste into your RSS reader and kapow - you're subscribed to a huge number of women tech bloggers. Nice! Here's that URL: WomenTechBloggers
update: Anne says "I don't think it's all that useful right now... it's a huge number of feeds to suddenly start paying attention to. Still, interesting as a beginning exploration." But I think she's wrong. My initial thoughts after the more link...Double Update: Here’s my thoughts on why this glob of feeds is valuable:
Two possibilities arise- first, if you read feeds via a “river of news” option (show me all items, newest first, regardless of what feeds they came in) then this could drastically turn around that experience. I am not sure whether bloglines even gives you this option or if you still have to read whole feeds at once - but Newsgator.com allows this and it’s great.
Second, if there was the power available to do this (I’ve tried and my limited tech skills can’t quite make it happen) you could create unique channels within this glob of feeds like “give me a feed of items containing the word ‘RSS’ or ‘environmentalism’ across all of these feeds”. That would be great, wouldn’t it? I tried taking these feeds through the following steps, but servers timed out every time I tried to set it up: OPML to RSS, RSS filtered by FeedDigest, display feed in one of a variety of ways. Could make this happen for 5-10 feeds, but don’t know how to make it happen for 100+. Doesn’t it seem possible, and more important, valuable - though? Go mine feeds from various link lists, then splice together and filter for key words and you’re creating community newswires as big and specialized as you’d like. I’d like to do that. And I’m sure there are other things this OPML file could me used to do too.
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January 26th, 2006 at
Thanks for the mention and the attention!
I imported the file into Bloglines and then immediately deleted all the feeds–it was so much information at once. I’ve got to figure out a way to decompose the problem of surveying all these sources.
January 26th, 2006 at
If Anne does indeed “figure out a way to decompose the problem of surveying all these sources” I would really, really love to know. So would thousands of other infogeeks.
One way I try and solve for this now is to carry a healthy mix of blog feeds, a few search string feeds from pubsub, and a feed of my inbox on del.icio.us. The problem isn’t reading everything, but reading enough of the “right” things.
Thanks, both of you, for giving attention to women tech bloggers so that more people will add some of them as the “right” feed(s) to pay attention to.
January 26th, 2006 at
Here’s my thoughts on why this glob of feeds is valuable:
Two possibilities arise- first, if you read feeds via a “river of news” option (show me all items, newest first, regardless of what feeds they came in) then this could drastically turn around that experience. I am not sure whether bloglines even gives you this option or if you still have to read whole feeds at once - but Newsgator.com allows this and it’s great. Second, if there was the power available to do this (I’ve tried and my limited tech skills can’t quite make it happen) you could create unique channels within this glob of feeds like “give me a feed of items containing the word ‘RSS’ or ‘environmentalism’ across all of these feeds”. That would be great, wouldn’t it? I tried taking these feeds through the following steps, but servers timed out every time I tried to set it up: OPML to RSS, RSS filtered by FeedDigest, display feed in one of a variety of ways. Could make this happen for 5-10 feeds, but don’t know how to make it happen for 100+. Doesn’t it seem possible, and more important, valuable - though? Go mine feeds from various link lists, then splice together and filter for key words and you’re creating community newswires as big and specialized as you’d like. I’d like to do that. And I’m sure there are other things this OPML file could me used to do too.
-Marshall
January 27th, 2006 at
[…] So, for those who don’t know about it, Tech.Memorandum is a machine aggregated news page set up by Gabe Rivera to display hot online discussions in one location. Getting a link there means lots of traffic. My post yesterday about Anne Zelenka’s OPML file of women tech bloggers is displayed prominently there right now, along with three other blogs linking to Anne’s original post. Yesterday Anne’s article was the top of the discussion and there were three of us below her. Today she’s not there at all! Instead there are just 3 men whose blogs link to her story…ouch. […]
February 2nd, 2006 at
[…] I’ve been wanting to put together some good OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) files all week, inspired by Anne Zelenka’s giant Blogher file and the conversation I had with legal blogger Dennis Kennedy about the incredible potential for this medium. […]
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