Dave Winer launched a neat looking new online community today for people to upload and share their OPML files, or list of RSS feeds they are subscribed to. There's a top 100 list (so far this blog is #70, thanks!) so you can see what other geeks like to read. There appears to be a recommendation engine, feed/file management and goodness knows what else. I think it looks great. Sharing OPML files is something I've been thinking about for awhile. Some times I fantasize about starting a blog just for sharing OPML files of my favorite feeds on a wide variety of topics.
Neat things here: you can see who subscribes to any given RSS feed and how many feeds they are subscribed to. Todd Cochrane is nuts (1000+ feeds), but Danny Ayers is nutser (2000+). There's some folks who know how to not get overwhelmed by feeds.
One word of caution: if you have, say, a puppy kicking fetish and you've subscribed to a search feed for your name plus the words "kicks puppies" (just to check if anyone knows) then you might want to take that feed out of the OPML file you share on Winer's site. Or maybe not, kicking puppies is nothing to be ashamed of - right? Right?
I've made a post off-site on seven ways you can use Share Your OPML.








