BlogBridge, the free RSS feed reader, has enhanced its reading lists feature. As Pito Salas defines it, a reading list is “ a collection of Feeds, usually about a single topic, which someone has put together for the benefit of others.” This allows you to make more intelligent decisions on what feeds to subscribe to. BlogBridge has asked experts in different fields like Dan Gillmor for journalism to develop topical lists for them. I served as one of the their experts and created a list of knowledge management blogs.
Anyone can create a BlogBridge Reading List. All you need is a set of feeds on some topic that you want to make available to a friend or to the whole world. As the site explains, “All you have to do is to create a Guide that contains the Feeds that you want to include, and with a single checkbox, publish it as a Reading List. Once BlogBridge syncs with the (free) BlogBridge service, your reading list is assigned a hyperlink that only you know. You can decide to just give it to your Mom or put it up for the whole world to see. It's up to you.”
So it has the transparency of del.icio.us with some structure. This is a wonderful feature that goes beyond the more awarkward list that you make through del.icio.us. I can see it workign find for a business that wants to share ists with clients or inside the firewall as a knowledge manageemnt system tool. They provide a screencast showing how to publish a reading list. They also offer instructions on how to subscribe to a reading list.
Hi Bill, you should check the blogbridge's URL you provided in this post.
Posted by: Vincent | June 22, 2006 at 07:23 AM
Vincent - Thanks I fixed the first one which gets you to their home page. I had made a typo in the url. Some of the others do not seem to work and some do. There may be a problem on their end but you can now get to their home page and navigate from there. Bill
Posted by: Bill Ives | June 22, 2006 at 08:33 AM