I am guessing that I'm not the only one that uses the start of the new year as a time to get caught up on a lot of back logged blog reading. Well, as I was doing that this year I found an interesting site that will let you share your OPML blog feeds list and then it'll give you some very interesting reports to look at. For example, you can take your list of blogfeeds and get a report of people who have lists that closely compare to yours. The site is http://share.opml.org

This is another one of those interesting community-oriented sites that gets better when more people find it so at the risk of sounding like a chain letter publisher ... pass this on to at least ten of your blogging friends or you will have horrible luck this year and you will end up stuck working on development projects that have to use outdated technology :) All kidding aside, this is a really cool way to find blog feeds that you may have missed and at the same time you can find people that you have something in common with. I don't know how some of these people keep up with so many blog feeds (Andrew Connell gets the blue ribbon for 359 blog feeds, if even half of those get a post every day he must end up spending a couple of hours just managing it ... yikes).

If you're afraid it will take you forever to figure out how to do this trust me it couldn't be easier. Just follow these steps:

1. Export your OPML blogfeed from your RSS reader (in my case I used Outlook 2007 but it'll work from Outlook 2003 as well)
2. Go to http://share.opml.org and create your account (don't worry it's only 3 fields (name, email, password)
3. Go to the upload your blog list section
4. Have fun running reports and discovering all kinds of blog feeds you didn't know about

Something else that's inspiring, go take a look at how many people are subscribed to Scott Guthrie's blog. That shows me what consistent valuable blogging can do, I don't know how many folks blog more regularly than him and I think his subscriber list reflects that. A completely opposite example would be my reader list, I have 4 subscribers (1 of which is me :), I guess that's what happens when you go into a blogging blackhole for 6 months. Oh well, I'm back on the horse now. I hope some of you find this site interesting and participate. Have a great start to the new year!

New years day and I wasn't all that interested in watching the bowl games so I sat down and posted all of the articles that have been stacking up on my desk at home. Sort of a nerdy spring cleaning :) I added some new sections and posted around 50 new articles that I've been looking at throughout 2006. I hope you find something you enjoy.

I also decided to give my blog a little bit of help. I added a year filter and I moved my older blog entries out of my basic rss feed. This should speed things up some and get the older less interesting posts out of everyone's face. I also decided to take my Outlook opml blog feeds list and build a quick XSL to display it. As you are probably noticing I've been following a lot more blogs than this page was showing.

I'm working on some other interesting things here in early 2007 so keep my blog feed in your favorite reader. I'll be speaking at the Vista Launch, I'll be presenting at the Atlanta Code Camp and the Ft. Lauderdale Code Camp, I'll be up in Jacksonville on January 30th for their local Vista Launch and I have some interesting ideas for articles. 2007 is kicking off with a bang!!!