Chregu follows Antonio’s lead (see monblog.ch and the Swiss feed directory) and now also provides an OPML feed with the active blogs on freeflux.net. This OPML feed is automatically imported to the blog list once a day. Thank you Chregu! In Chregu’s feed all blogs with 10 posts or more and at least one post in the past 30 days are included. My original call to arms still holds and I will cite it here: ...
Jan Zuppinger contacted me today about a problem they had with the Swiss weblog directory. For a weblog to be nominated for the Swiss Blog Awards it has to be listed in the blog directory. So we currently get many new additions to the list. Great! But one problem surfaced. There are weblogs that don’t have an XML feed (RSS or Atom). But the feed URL was obligatory in the list and I even actively deleted submissions without feed URLs. After all, the list is mainly for the aggregators. Or is it? I currently know of the following services consuming the provided OPML feed: ...
After my State of the Swiss blogosphere article, Antonio contacted me about his blog platform monblog.ch which is popular in the French part of Switzerland. Basically none of the monblog.ch blog was represented in the feed directory. I suggested he provide an OPML feed that I can import and so he did. So starting today, monblog.ch weblogs are automatically added if they have at least ten articles, are older than three days and have published an article within the last month. I don’t check those conditions myself, but Antonio only corresponding publishes weblogs in the OPML feed. If you are a blog provider in Switzerland or have an easy way to extract only Swiss weblogs, feel free to publish your active weblogs as an OPML feed. It’s probably best to follow the format I use for the feed directory OPML. Once you have done that, send me a mail with the feed’s URL. ...