For anyone who's interested: I've been hacking a little bit on FeedMagick2 again, with the latest addition being an OPML reading list feed blender.
\nWhat's an OPML reading list? Basically, it's the same as as OPML export of a feed reader's subscription list - only rather than doing a one-time import into another program, the OPML is itself treated as a live feed. A feed reader that supports OPML reading lists will continually check the list for updates and sync RSS/Atom feed subscriptions with its contents, maybe in a special sub-folder.
\nHere's a quick demo:
\nThe itch I mean to eventually scratch is to replace the front page of decafbad.com with a live updating aggregation of the stuff I create and capture daily on the web. It'll be basically a self-assembling tumblelog pulled from many different services across the web. It'll also replace the footer of accumulated crud I've got on this very blog - which I thought was a good idea at one point, but now consider NeatLikeDigitalWatches.
\nWith that in mind, the next thing I plan to develop is an hAtom module or XSL transform. This will turn the blended feed into an XHTML page. Maybe someday, hAtomic will launch, and I'll have a nice pretty style for the page too. Some time after that, I might work up a module that stows away dated historical archives of the feed and pages. I have further plans and ideas, but I'm trying to focus on the itchy spots first so that I might actually get something done in this round of serial enthusiasm.
\n", "body": "For anyone who's interested: I've been hacking a little bit on [FeedMagick2](http://decafbad.com/trac/wiki/FeedMagick) again, with the latest addition being an OPML reading list feed blender. \r\n\r\n[What's an OPML reading list?](http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/reading_lists_f.html) Basically, it's the same as as OPML export of a feed reader's subscription list - only rather than doing a one-time import into another program, the OPML is itself treated as a live feed. A feed reader that supports OPML reading lists will continually check the list for updates and sync RSS/Atom feed subscriptions with its contents, maybe in a special sub-folder.\r\n\r\nHere's a quick demo:\r\n\r\n* [An RSS feed blended from many of the sites I use daily](http://decafbad.com/2007/04/FeedMagick2/?pipeline=readinglist&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdecafbad.com%2F2007%2F04%2FFeedMagick2%2Fdocs%2Fmaster.opml&format=rss&run=Run+Pipeline)\r\n* [The OPML reading list used as input for the above blend](http://decafbad.com/2007/04/FeedMagick2/docs/master.opml)\r\n\r\nThe itch I mean to eventually scratch is to replace the front page of decafbad.com with a live updating aggregation of the stuff I create and capture daily on the web. It'll be basically a self-assembling [tumblelog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblelog) pulled from many different services across the web. It'll also replace the footer of accumulated crud I've got on this very blog - which I thought was a good idea at one point, but now consider [NeatLikeDigitalWatches](http://decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/NeatLikeDigitalWatches).\r\n\r\nWith that in mind, the next thing I plan to develop is an [hAtom](http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom) module or XSL transform. This will turn the blended feed into an XHTML page. Maybe someday, [hAtomic](http://hatomic.org) will launch, and I'll have a nice pretty style for the page too. Some time after that, I might work up a module that stows away dated historical archives of the feed and pages. I have [further plans and ideas](http://decafbad.com/svn/trunk/FeedMagick2/TODO), but I'm trying to focus on the itchy spots first so that I might actually get something done in this round of serial enthusiasm.\r\n", "parentPath": "./content/posts/archives/2007", "path": "2007/10/17/opml-reading-lists-in-feedmagick2", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2007/10/09/beautiful-code", "prevPostTitle": "Beautiful Code", "nextPostPath": "2007/10/17/wine-is-nicely-enabled", "nextPostTitle": "Wine is Nicely Enabled" }