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Blog-sharing "commons" goes live

Martin LaMonica Former Staff writer, CNET News
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Lost in the ocean of blogs that is the blogosphere? Web logging pioneer Dave Winer on Monday launched a project called Share Your OPML, a Web site dedicated to gathering blog subscription lists.

The site is designed around a top 100 list of blogs and news sites chosen by the people participating in Share Your OPML. To participate, people need to create a membership.

Members can allow anybody else to look at the blog feeds that they subscribe to.

The mechanism for sharing is OPML, an XML-based protocol for sharing "outline-structured information" between applications.

According to the site's FAQ, most blog aggregators have a way for publishing blog subscriptions in OPML format.

On his blog Monday morning, Winer dubbed the launch "an instant hit."