Fixing Planet Apache's OPML
Recently I changed my RSS reader setup to reflect the new features in Blogbridge
5: I no longer subscribe to the various planets I have been reading: Planet Apache, Planet GNOME, Planet Mindquarry, etc., but combine the ability of the Planet software to create an OPML file, containing a listing of all blogs aggregated, including their feed URL. Blogbridge in turn is able to subscribe to all feeds mentioned in such an OPML file, so I pointed Blogbridge to the OPML files of Planet Apache, Planet GNOME, Planet Mindquarry, etc, unsubscribed from all aggregated Planet feeds and are now subscribed to really many feeds ( I get this aggregated listing by publishing the OPML of all my subscribed feeds using the Blogbridge service, combined with Share Your OPML, a great service by Dave Winer).
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5: I no longer subscribe to the various planets I have been reading: Planet Apache, Planet GNOME, Planet Mindquarry, etc., but combine the ability of the Planet software to create an OPML file, containing a listing of all blogs aggregated, including their feed URL. Blogbridge in turn is able to subscribe to all feeds mentioned in such an OPML file, so I pointed Blogbridge to the OPML files of Planet Apache, Planet GNOME, Planet Mindquarry, etc, unsubscribed from all aggregated Planet feeds and are now subscribed to really many feeds ( I get this aggregated listing by publishing the OPML of all my subscribed feeds using the Blogbridge service, combined with Share Your OPML, a great service by Dave Winer).
There was only one problem: I suddenly lost all my Planet Apache subscriptions due to a mis-formed OPML file. Planet Apache's OPML file did not contain the feed URLs, so I investigated this issue and found a small bug in the OPML template that mixed up url and uri variables and is fixed by now. As a result, feed urls are in Planet Apache's OPML again and my feed list is again a little bit more interesting.
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