OPML, Book Authors
Just got back from a meeting with a bunch of book authors, here for the publishers’ summit. They’re all under NDA, of course, but sometimes I am still surprised at how much some of these people know. Robert Scoble is organizing a bloggers/authors dinner at Crossroads tonight, which I’ll also be attending.
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In other news, I finally admitted defeat in my effort to manually track all of the MSFT bloggers. You will notice that my link on the left now points to an OPML file instead. There are well over a hundred, and it was getting too difficult to keep up with it. Now I can just maintain the OPML file, visitors to the site can import it to their news aggregators automatically, and it has an attached XSLT so that it renders nicely in the browser if you view it from my site. I started with an OPML file that Benjamin Voigt kindly constructed for me, then merged with the OPML file from blogs.gotdotnet.com. Strangely enough, I was still missing quite a few names after doing this (for example, Mark Fussell and Arpan Desai did not show up on the gotdotnet OPML, even though their blogs are hosted by gotdotnet; and Dare Obasanjowas not on Benjamin’s list). I suspect that there are at least 20 more MSFT blogs that I am missing, but this should be the most complete list available.
Note that the OPML file is rendered using the stylesheet at /blog/blogOpml.xslt, which is a ridiculously simple XSLT you can modify any way you like. I would like to modify it to sort the blogs by most recent update, but really would rather not do that using XSLT.