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Bloglines is a wonderful service, which I use daily, in order to monitor over 850 feeds - http://www.bloglines/public/camih, but also to search and to find new information ( search, related feeds, users public collections, credibility of an RSS given by number of subscribers and citations ).

My feeds include weblogs, sites announcing their news using RSS, search feeds, podcasts; but also the weblogs of my students working for their diploma or participating in online courses.

Bloglines deals wonderful with the private RSSs produces by the online courses using the virtual environment of Timsoft. Colections of RSS are displayed in my online courses using the Bloglines export service.

My wish list for Bloglines future development:

• for each account create an RSS with the new added feeds; why? we learn from the resources collected by others ( a solution is given by Superfan - http://www.unpossible.com/superfan/userBloglines ); this RSS would be a measure on how her/his OPML is changing; of course each user might choose to share this RSS or not; such an RSS would be similar with that one created by del.icio.us for each user:

http://del.icio.us/rss/user

• the possibility of creating search feeds for the citations option; it's useful to keep up with the citations of sites or specific postings
• the possibility of searching specifying the OPML in which a search to be realised; now each user have the possibility to search in her/his feeds collection; the option could be extended: to specify whose collection to be used; or an external OPML to be specified;
• because very often a user feeds collection counts hundreds of RSS: when you try to add a RSS you already have in collection, the message "You are already subscribed to that blog." to specify also the Folder which contains that feed;
• to be able to find the collections saved by users under specific Folder/ categories - similar with Technorati, delicious, flick,MetaFilter; as an example: a search for the feeds saved under Java folder to display all the users who have a folder named Java in their collections:

  http://www.bloglines.com/tag/java # proposal

  would display users and folders similar with:

  http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=carmenH&folder=java

  See below similar applications:

  • http://www.technorati.com/tag/java - a corresponding watchlist can be created
  • http://del.icio.us/tag/java - an RSS is created too
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/java - an RSS is created too
  • http://www.metafilter.com/tags/java

Do you have your own wish list related to Bloglines?

Posted by Carmen at 12:40:36 pm into the following categories: Despre bloguri, Despre RSS, Search Tools, Notes in English

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Good work!!!

Posted by: Lidia [Visitor] on 03/03/05 @ 20:32

Thank you, Lidia, for your visit and message.

Carmen

Posted by: Carmen [Member] on 03/03/05 @ 21:38
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