Over on my Ask Dave Taylor Q & A blog, I received a most interesting question that I believe is a good example of just what’s wrong with the state of RSS and, perhaps, is one of the great challenges facing the blogosphere, too: “I know this is a really stupid question, but how do I go about subscribing to your blog? Does subscribing to your blog mean that I would be subscribing to an…

...Those of us mired in the blogging space often forget how confusing and difficult most of the technology - and jargon - really can be for people who are coming into it without experience.

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Reading lists are OPML documents that point to RSS feeds, like most of the OPML documents you find, but instead of subscribing to each feed in the document, the reader or aggregator subscribes to the OPML document itself. When the author of the OPML document adds a feed, the aggregator automatically checks that feed in its next scan, and (key point) when a feed is removed, the aggregator no longer checks that feed. THe editor of the OPML file can update all the subscribers by updating the OPML file. Think of it as sort of a mutual fund for subscriptions. by Dave winer

It’s a kind of having somebody else taking care of your aggregator subscriptions adding new feeds and removing obsolete ones for you. i.metaRSS allready supports the OPML import and export but it’s only limited for local files, but having the possibility to import web based OPML was in the plan and now we should add not just a simple import but a regular check like a feed subscription. And I would add that a filtering ala iResearch based on certain OPML Reading lists could be a great feature.

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As some of you had noticed on Saturday first of October, the hosting service that we used had some glitches and the site was offline for the most part of the day. Actually the hosting company made some updates that caused us troubled with the MySQL DB.

We reacted as fast as possible and we moved the site to another server. Unfortunately, we had to make the restore from the backups of the 25th of September as the most recent ones were equally corrupted.

So the users that registered between the 25th and 30th of September they need to register again.

We apologies from all the metaRSS users for the inconvenience occurred because of this situation. and we assure you that will make sure of the reliability of our future service providers.

The Latest headlines page where you get the last publications from all your selected feeds, has now now it’s own Feed !

The Feed from feeds can be syndicated or just added to your  i Read ::  by clicking on the left side of the +i.meta button; or on the RSS side of the button so you can go to the source of the feed or just copy the feed URL.

When a title of a new article appears in your  i Read ::  it is in blue color no matter what color Theme is used. Themes can be changed from the Theme menu. You will notice on the left side of each title appears a letter “d” for Day(s) which indicates number of days since the publication of the article. So for 0 and 1 day, the title will remain in blue color, from 2 to 7 days it will appear in black and for those more than 7 days old the title color will become gray.

Once you click on a title it will be highlighted in yellow color until the next page reload then the highlight will become gray.

No need to be an advanced surfer to use  i Read :: . We received some questions lately about the entry page.
After logging in, the first page will show The latest headlines from all the feeds added to your  i Read :: . These titles will be up to ten by default, but it is possible to change there number from the Preferences menu. In order to see all the titles from a particular feed you can either click on the  i Read ::  button from the top menu or on any Category button to see all feeds in that category. The categories can be created when adding or editing a feed.