Tim Samoff // Weblog (old)

July 19, 2004

See you later aggregator...

Last week, I mentioned that I had t backup my hard drive in order that I format it and reinstall everything so that I could fix some problems that my computer was having. Well, everything went successfully and I’m back up and running.

There’s one thing that I forgot to backup, though… My latest NetNewsWire subscription list. (That’s Blogroll to those of you who don’t use NetNewsWire.)

Ugh — guess I can’t think of everything.

Thankfully, I was able to recreate it (mostly) using the list that I had stored at Bloglines, as well as those Atoms feeds which I had “burned” at Feedburner. One thing that irked me a little was that NetNewsWire didn’t seem to want to import the OPML file that I exported from Bloglines. Yes, I was able to copy and paste all of the RSS URLs into NetNewsWire from the OPML source from Bloglines, but that took a little while (at least five minutes!). It seems to me like this should work without a hitch — I mean, Bloglines imports a NetNewsWire OPML file just fine, so why not vice versa?

I am missing a few feeds that I had added between my latest Bloglines update and the whole computer fiasco, though. Hopefully, I’ll be able to remember which ones they were.

But, my Blogroll will never be completely complete until everyone begins supplying us with RSS feeds of some sort. This is fairly simple with the RSSify utility over at VoidStar — if you aren’t afraid to get your hands a little dirty with a minute or so of technical gardening. (And those of you who are using Blogger: please give us your new Atom link!)

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