RSP blog directory and yahoo pipes
Last week while playing around with yahoo pipes, I found this useful tool: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ypEo0_zd2xGgEDTaJhOy0Q
If you enter a link to an opml file it will aggregate all the rss feeds from that file into one tidy rss feed with each item labelled with which blog it came from.
The RSP published a series of opml files for a whole load of repository related blogs. These are categorised by blog type, one example is the personal blogs: http://www.rsp.ac.uk/blogs/opml.php?type=personal. Pop this link into the yahoo pipe (the box that says ‘the opml file is located at’), enter the number of items you want to appear in your rss feed and you get a handy little rss feed showing all the latest blog postings from that section of the directory.
This has saved me an awful lot of real estate on my netvibes page.
There is an opml file for all the blogs in the directory but this didn’t work too well for me when I put it through the pipe.
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