Posts Tagged ‘opml’
The #interestingOPMLexperiment (stage 1)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I asked a bunch of people to send me their OPML files (for those of you who aren’t aware, an OPML file is what tells your RSS reader what feeds you’ve subscribed to — it can act as a way of moving your subscriptions between readers.) Some of the more trusting among them agreed, and that gave me the raw material for the first bit of my experiment.
Some red herrings
Along the way I uncovered a couple of things that were interesting but not (entirely) relevant to the experiment.
- Some people are cagey about sharing their list of feeds: whether they consider it intellectual property, or whether they think that it may be too revealing, I don’t know.
- Lots of people said things like “oh — my RSS reader? Haven’t looked at that in a while. I get all my news off Twitter these days.”
Tags: #interestingOPMLexperiment, bloggers, citation analysis, influence, influence mapping, network analysis, opml, research, social media, visualization
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