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So here's what I learned how to do today. I wanted to try out placing a grazr widget in my blog. I thought I would do this with the feeds from our organizers' blogs (some of them). The difficulty is in that Grazr doesn't have an easy way to pull in multiple rss feeds except through a linked opml file. I've learned that an opml file is basically an outline list with multiple feeds. To make a long story short, I found OPML Builder, where I listed the feeds and it created the opml file, which I then saved to my desktop. Then I knew I had to have the opml file hosted somewhere, so I found opml manager where I uploaded the opml file. I had to edit the urls for the feeds as they were pretty messed up somehow after i played with the file a little. I learned that Omni Outliner on my Mac lets you open and edit opml files. So I then went to Grazr, put in the url for the hosted opml file, did a little customizing, and copied the script provided. Then I went to my blog, which is an edublog, went to the presentation tab- sidebar widgets, and put in a text widget and within that text widget I pasted the script from Grazr! Shazaam! My little victory for the day!

Wow! That's really

Wow! That's really impressive! Now I'm wondering if this magical OPML file is something I could build, edit, and put to work...

Totally successful! You

Totally successful! You made me start looking into OPML. Thanks for the post! :)   

 

That's so funny! My chat

That's so funny! My chat group was discussing OPML yesterday afternoon so your post came at the perfect time to illustrate what I was talking about! Very nice work! Good playing. :)