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or you will have horrible luck this year and you will end up stuck working on development projects that have to use outdated technology :) All kidding aside, this is a really cool way to find blog feeds that you may have missed and at the same time you can find people that you have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!