Find out who's reading your blog
Blogging pioneer Dave Winer hopes to bring order to the blogosphere with a new project dubbed Share your OPML.
The project allows members to share and compare lists of their favorite blogs and news sites. It uses OPML, an XML-based protocol for sharing "outline-structured information" between applications.
The new tool met with positive reaction among bloggers, who welcomed the chance to see what others are watching and reading.
Blog community response:
"Further, if it incorporates community tagging, watch out. It might be just the killer app we desperately need to break out influential blogs in different verticals."
--Micro Persuasion
"This aggregated data is useful. In particular, it will help people find new feeds that they may enjoy."
--TechCrunch
"I'm a big fan of this app because I always want to find new things to read and seeing what other people are reading is a great way to do that. It is also a sobering reality check for me as to how many readers some blogs have versus others (e.g. hardly anyone is reading my site)."
--Randy Holloway Unfiltered
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