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title: "Need to turn my Subscriptions into a 'blogroll'"
date: 2002-04-15T01:05:13-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/04/15/oooohh/
author: Les Orchard
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# Need to turn my Subscriptions into a 'blogroll'

<p>I need to turn my subscriptions list into a blogroll.  Oh, and make sure that the subscriptions <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/OPML">OPML</a> doesn't contain any of my password-protected <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MailToRSS">MailToRSS</a> feeds.  Also pondering doing some cute things, like maybe display a random subset of my reading list (since my blog+news <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> list is > 100 items), and maybe use <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RssDisplay">RSSDisplay</a> to pull in the headlines from a random <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> channel I subscribe to, and call it "Featured".</p>
<p>Hmm.  <a href="http://www.blogrolling.com">blogrolling.com</a> would be hot if it accepted a URL to an <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/OPML">OPML</a> file.</p>
<p>Maybe that's what I should do with my subscriptions-to-blogroll thing, kinda like I did with <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RssDisplay">RSSDisplay</a>.  Yeah, I know <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RadioUserLand">RadioUserLand</a> does or can do all of this, but I'm kind of in a mood to make a pile of small pieces to loosely join out here on decafbad.com.</p>
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221090170" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-04-15T02:18:20">2002-04-15T02:18:20</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Blogrolling.com has been live for 2 and a half days so more cool features are on the way. By weeks end you'll be able to output your blogroll to any format I can think of or get a request for. It was designed for normal people who don't like to deal with HTML to use but I'm working on the beefier geeks now. Gimme a few days and you'll be able to pick your output flavor but still use the new tools. I'm workin on it. I promise ;-)</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090171" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-04-15T02:45:18">2002-04-15T02:45:18</time></a>
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            <div class="content">What, 2 1/2 whole days and you don't process OPML and make coffee yet?  Sheesh!

Hehehe...  :)  I certainly didn't expect to hear back from you personally about my grousing.  Definitely good to see cool things in the work though!</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090172" class="permalink"><time datetime="2002-04-15T02:47:28">2002-04-15T02:47:28</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Oh, and p.s.:  How did you find me?  Via my account sign up at your site?</div>
            
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