If you’ve been tuning into the blogosphere 2.0 for the past 20 hours, you probably will be seeing one phrase/service-name all around you and it’s absolutely hot now. When I say hot, I mean it, with a big capital “H”. And that is…

Whatever the problem was it’s not really resolved. I posted about it to the opml-support mail list, but no response.

If you’re putting it in the OPML editor just so you can pare things down, you can always ask FeedDemon to just export a specific channel group rather than the whole list of your subscriptions.

Best of luck!

I’m a little late to Dave Winer’s OPML sharing party.  I only uploaded my feeds (edited) yesterday.  I really held off because I was ……

What I sent you is exactly the file that FD exported. You say you’re sure it came from somewhere else. Where else? That’s the only OPML export I did yesterday, from FD.

As I mentioned in my forum post, it is the original file I imported into OPML Editor which I then made a copy of with ’save as…’ What I sent you was that original file. Did something happen to it in OPML Editor? No idea. Did the file get corrupted somehow on my PC? Unlikely, but really no idea.

If you can’t explain it, neither can I.

First thing - about the FD OPML export, as I mentioned in my forum post:

I just tried this in 2.0.0.20 (.22 is now available) and the very first line in the OPML is:
<opml version=”1.1″>

(Meaning 2.0.0.20 is exporting correctly.)

I forwarded the OPML that you sent to us to Nick Bradbury to look at and it looks like it’s not an FD-generated OPML. This is based on two things:
- FD has always included the top-level OPML node which, as you reported, was missing from your file.
- Your OPML includes ‘encoding=”ISO-8859-1″‘ which has never been in a FeedDemon export.

We’re pretty sure that OPML came from somewhere else.

As for getting your OPML from NewsGator Online, there are a couple ways to do this. The first is a straight export as file download and is covered in this knowledge base article.

The second method exposes your OPML from a URL for any program or website that supports importing OPML from a URL.

And I agree with you - it’s not about the numbers, it’s about usefulness. Mind you, I’m sure I have just too many as I never even look at some, so they’re in there consuming bandwidth every time FD syncs all feeds. I suppose I ought to do something about it really…

I used to have a Neville-sized fedreading list (thanks to my having imported all of Steve Rubel’s, Robert Scoble’s and Amy Gahran’s feeds) and it took me a LONG time to pare that huge list down (getting rid of Scoble’s local news, Amy’s ego feeds etc. hehe). Now I’m a slim 400 feeds or so. It ain’t the number, it’s how useful it is to you.

It looks as though there is a problem with FD, as exporting feeds to an OPML file with the new build of FD released yesterday (making it now version 2.0.0.22) works fine. So the answer appears to be - if you have the release version of FD (2.0.0.20), install the upgrade.

See this NewsGator FeedDemon support forum threrad:

http://www.newsgator.com/forum/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=14&MessageID=17745

I tend to subscribe to things that look interesting so I’ve accumulated lots of RSS feeds. My reading list, every day, is what I call my ‘Primary 1′ list that currently has 30 feeds. Some of those go in and out, so to speak. The core feeds in that list comprise 14, the ones I will read every day no matter what.

With all the other feeds, I scan some of them from time to time. But I really ought to do a bit of housekeeping. I could probably dispense with 1,000 of those feeds and not feel I’m missing something.

Which is of course why FD still contains 1,200 feeds - I don’t want to think that I might miss something
How do you manage your feeds?