Dare Obasanjo announces that a sizeable new release of RSS Bandit is now available. I downloaded and installed this and it looks great. This is a free RSS News Aggregator and is my favorite of the free ones out there. His post explains what’s new, but I really like that it synchronizes to NewsGator now.

I kept trying to open my OPML file in the OPML Editor and it wouldn’t open. I had a few complaints about that as well. I tried both the OPML file that NewsGator exported as well as the one that Bloglines exported. Newsgator’s OPML file wouldn’t even open (gave me an error) but Bloglines opened with blank titles.

So, I did some cleaning and uploaded an OPML-compatible OPML file.

I wish everyone would make their files compatible with the OPML editor, though. I’m using that a lot lately.

UPDATE: I can’t upload this as an OPML file cause Radio Userland keeps converting it to HTML when it uploads and WordPress.com doesn’t support file uploads yet. If someone could put that on a server somewhere that’d be most helpful. The ZIP file linked from here contains the OPML file.

I can’t delete more than about 50 feeds at one time in Bloglines. I’ve complained about this before and they haven’t fixed it. Bloglines has no way for me to update my RSS feeds without deleting all my feeds and reimporting feeds from someplace else. That really sucks. There should be an “erase all” feature. Oh, yes, you can try the “Check All” and then “Remove” feature, but it doesn’t work. So I’m forced to delete all my feeds at about 30 per delete. Sigh.

NewsGator let me delete all 1378 feeds I had without burping. Oh, speaking of which, since stopping my Radio UserLand blog my NewsGator subscription level there has gone from 15,000 to 18,000. Whew! Maybe that’s the trick to getting more popular. Just stop publishing! Oh, well, there’ll be time for that when I’m dead. Heheh.

UPDATE: Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines, just left a comment here on this post and said this is an IE problem and that it works in Firefox. Thanks Mark for clarifying that!

Disclaimer, John Roberts works for CNET, which doesn’t provide full-text. Today he wrote that he disagrees with me about full-text feeds.

I really try to avoid non-full-text feeds. I deleted many feeds I like that aren’t full text (like Shelley Powers’ feed, Chris Pirillo’s feeds, and Jeffrey Zeldman’s feeds — all of which I deleted from my daily reading). Why? Because there are so many great feeds out there that I just don’t have time for people who don’t treat me the way I want to be treated.

See I use NewsGator. It only shows me headlines in one pane and the content in another pane. So I can scan feeds very quickly — even though they are full-text feeds.

I find that full-text feeds actually make it FASTER to scan. Why? Cause all the content is pre-loaded for me. Partial text feeds required me to click a link and wait for my browser to load.

Update: Steve Gillmor says that John is beating a dead horse.

OK, my blogroll is now up to date. I’m now actively looking for great tech feeds to subscribe to.

What kinds of things am I looking for?

How about blogs like Thomas Hawk? I love how he brings me analysis and interesting stuff like his post on Friday about Flickr and WebShots.

How about blogs that tell Microsoft where it can improve? Like Joe Kennedy’s post yesterday telling me where I and Microsoft are missing out on a big opportunity (his two-year-old-daughter is willing to be a spokesbaby for Microsoft.)

If you’re smarter than Danny Ayers I wanna subscribe to your blog. Hint: there aren’t many.

If you’re a corporate blogger, like Matt Cutts who is blogging for Google, and you’re doing as good a job as Matt is, I wanna hear from you. Um, I already am subscribed to everyone at http://blogs.msdn.com and http://blogs.technet.com.

Are you someone like Steve Rubel, who finds tons of interesting links, like this one to a USNews.com article on how to put a customer evangelism practice to work? Then I want to subscribe to you.

Are you more up to date on the social software scene than Liz Lawley? Then I want to hear from you. I love this post about PowerPoint usage at Microsoft. I hate how we use PowerPoint. I told myself that I would never force anyone to sit through a boring PowerPoint deck. Which is a problem cause everywhere I speak now they want PowerPoints. Got one due on Monday. So far I think I have succeeded in not making them boring. My latest trick? Use drawings from http://www.gapingvoid.com (it’s really hard to find clean ones that I can use, but they pleased the audiences I’ve used them in front of so far).

Anyway, tomorrow I’ll upload my OPML file for you to download. Would love some good suggestions.