October 21, 2005 by annegentle

Import all subscriptions for talk.bmc.com with one OPML file

Here’s a file you can import into your RSS aggregator to get talk.bmc.com content

How about a file you can import and get all the talk.bmc.com content at your fingertips? I know I wanted one to “click in” with my 179 other feeds that I read in bloglines. So I made one using the OPML format, got some help from the web team for testing and editing, and now we can all import it into bloglines.com or other RSS readers. Here it is:

talkbmc.opml

Right-click on the file name and save the .opml file locally, and then use the import feature on your RSS reader to bring in all the subscriptions alphabetically ordered. The web team has agreed to keep it up-to-date when new feeds are added. Thanks, you guys!
There’s a comment thread about this on Peter Armstrong’s blog and I think this OPML file will do nicely to let you not only follow all content on talk.bmc but also organize the individual blogs neatly.

We tested it on Bloglines (IE and Firefox), SharpReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Outlook 2003 on WinXP). The one thing I discovered is that if you already have an RSS feed in your reader, importing this file won’t add duplicates of feeds that you already have. So if Bloglines tells you “0 feeds imported” it might be that you already have all these feeds! Enjoy.

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