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Set your aggregators on stun!

Someone, I can't remember who at the moment, wrote in his blog about how RSS would be even better if it was easier to find interesting feeds. Here is some development on that area.

Dave Winer proposes a format and process designed to allow news aggregators to autodetect public RSS-feeds and display them to the user:

A few weeks back, a question was raised by Jeremy Zawodny on behalf of Yahoo. They have a large number of RSS feeds that they want to make available to aggregators. They need a machine-readable format and a default location for the file. Further, this file should be able to contain links to other files in this format so that directories can be distributed. A format and location is proposed in this document.

I must say that Bloglines does a great job of detecting feeds, and present them in an interface where the user easily can select one or more for subscription. This of course requires that the feeds are linked from the page fed to Bloglines.

This would further enhance the usability of RSS, allowing for machine based collection of all feeds announced in a much easier, more predictable way than what we see today.

RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml

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