I think micro.blog is going to get very interesting once the APIs for all these random social networks fill out.#

💬 Dave Winer

Nice - and prolly right. Which reminds me.

Blogrolls …

On the @dave blogroll 🔗 at scripting.com his order pushes blogs with ‘latest post’ to the top - any plans on something like that for Micro Blog @manton ?

@JohnPhilpin No plans for that right now. It’s extensible so someone else could build one or we could add something like that.

@manton 🥺 .. oh well .. a boy can dream.

Anyone else interested?

Anyone else interested with the tech chops to extend the core product?

@manton Continuing the conversation - @dave singing your praises over on Scripting - hadn't quite grokked that you were synching with him - KUDOS.

On both his blogroll and yours - you can download the OPML file - is that a future dev for your MicroBlog recommendations?

Also - any thoughts of promoting a community in side of MicroBlog somewhere - where you list anyone who has a blogroll.

Use case ..

I really like fred and jade and cynthia - would love to follow the RSS feeds that they follow - I already follow all the microbloggers they follow - but I want to reach outside of this eco system.

I got to micro.blog/ourRSSfeeds

I can see Jade - and can download her opml and merge the ones I want into mine - AND/OR - I just click merge and they all just come together in one giant glorious OPML fest.

And I know I can go the sites of fred and cynthia - to see if they have one enabled - but how much easier if there was a single index.

MAYBE there is even a giant merged list of ALL Migrobloggers OPMLS - now THAT would be a 'river' - right?

// paging @AndySylvester - have you looked at any of this?

@JohnPhilpin You can download OPML for anyone's blogroll on the web by clicking on their profile, then the "Recommends 123 blogs" link, then the download link. For a list of all blogrolls, maybe, I think we can do more like that as more people use the feature.

@manton Thankyou - there's that 'on the web' part of the instructions again :-) .. somehow I never think of that - I'm an app kinda guy.

And I know that I can get to a profile from the app - but it doesn’t seem to me to be consistent?. Maybe we could more clearly provide a link to the profile in this view?

P.S. (2 minutes later)

Oh - while I am here - can we also get 'copy markdown' on an image in uploads on the mac app please?

// @pratik

@JohnPhilpin Hold down the option key while right-clicking on an image in the Mac app and it changes to "Copy Markdown". You're right on the profile, we need to make that consistent on the Mac too.

@JohnPhilpin It could be the 4th, but I was thinking most people would want HTML by default. Some of the other menus work the same way.

@manton with it being hidden - I guess html would rise to be more popular if you looked at the data. Case in point - me. Even though (Imports aside) I try to keep my blog in Markdown whenever I can - I have often used the HTML - because I needed it quick and copying a link into markdown syntax was a step too far.

Now - IF I remember - it will be in Markdown - as a fourth choice - I wouldn’t forget :-)

@JohnPhilpin I have been watching this activity with interest, but have not done any playing around with it yet....

@AndySylvester turns out that exposing your blog roll on the site is a darn sight easier than working out what you choose to expose … easily done if your RSS feeds are organized, so, next job is ongoing … properly curating my feeds on NetNewsWire so that I can reveal 3 or 4 useful, categorized SHORT lists rather than a dump of what appears to be everything )yet sadly is not .. what is there is around 10% of the feeds I have in NetNewsWire.

In parallel .. I am sorting out a new Wordpress site for a new initiative that I occasionally hint at .. though have not yet formally launched .. and Dave’s Wordpress plugin for blog rolls might be just be what I need.

Still Thinking.