My Second 20% Project Is Now Live

Very nice! I'm glad that I'm not the only person who has been secretly wishing for Google Reader to do this.

Is there any possibility of allowing additional flexibility over presentation in the future? I'd like to have the blogroll served up with no styling, and then write my own CSS rules for #readerpublisher0 and its child elements.

Funny ... I see no such option anywhere in my settings. You must have access to the super-secret new version of Reader that I've been hearing so much about but have yet to see. Too bad ... that's definitely a feature I'd be interested in.

I'm not seeing it either.

Once I change a tag to public, then next to it I see "view public page", "email a link", and "add a clip to your site".

But really I just wish some Google people would use a few % of their time to fix some of the actual problems with Reader. Also iPhone owners aren't the only people that use the mobile version, the version the rest of us are stuck with could really use some work.

Example of a problem in Reader: Emailing items... When I hit "E" or click the EMail button, the cursor should be placed in the To: block so I can start typing addresses. And then from there I should be able to "tab" down through the subject, the note, all the way to the send button if I want... And if I have multiple email address attached to a contact I should be able to pick from them instead of only being able to use the first one. I shouldn't have to create multiple contacts for one person just because they have more than one email address just so Reader can see all the addresses.

Too weird. What browser/OS/etc... are you guys using? There's definitely no super-secret version!

It took me awhile to get the option to show up.
Reading the Sharing FAQ was part of my process, and I had to add a tag--I didn't have any before, as I just the other day started using Reader--but with some refreshing, and/or opening in new tabs, I got the option.
I'm sorry now that I didn't document what I was doing!

So I'd suggest refreshing for those people who cannot see the option.

Great blog, Steve! I'm glad that the Reader had a link to the project on its main page!
Cheers!

Steve,

Wouldn't it be better to allow people to have access to the OPML via a URL, rather than have to download it and upload it somewhere to actually make use of it?

Andy - sure, but that's a different feature to this "easy blogroll" feature.

Are you asking for a URL you can hit to get OPML for the blogroll which you would then process using your own js?

Cheers!
Steve

Shared OPML has been often requested in the forums, but never implemented. I thought from this news that finally a link to the OPML would be available, or I could make this blogroll feature accomplish the same end. I don't see a way that can be done currently. Bloglines has this feature and it's why I have a Bloglines account/

Please consider letting me sort/sequence the feeds within the folder instead of having to rename them as

1 zoro
2 mojo
3 abi

Is there any way to get an aggregated blogroll for all google reader users ?

Steve in many ways you have probably done more work than was needed, rather than this being an easy blogroll.

Just provide the OPML of the tag. There are so many ways to use OPML for blogrolls that already exist, and you don't necessarily have to use javascript at all.

As an example I could give the OPML URL to Megite to create a custom meme tracker, or use it in various statistics. There are lots of very fancy blogroll widgets and mini feed readers you can use with OPML.

There was a need to base this off a tag, rather than the global subscriptions, because people would innocently share their subscriptions to private data from Facebook feeds (Google Reader doesn't obey the instructions to not share it).

I am sure you already have the data structures needed for the OPML in the background, and just need to construct some cached output in XML rather than javascript.

Thanks Steve. :-)

Not only did I get it implemented for my blog, but I also blogged about how much I love it.

Merci.

Hi Steve: I did all you asked. I have a wordpress Blog. How do I add the code to it? can i?

Rishi

Very cool! Thank you for this.

Now, I can give you a little gift, http://paulgraham.infogami.com/blog/ is a stale entry in your roll ;-)

Hi Steve.

A question: i use Google Reader, and use the share-option. On my Blogger-blog i have this box, showing the items i shared from within Google Reader.

People interested in what i do, have to subscribe to 2 feeds: my Blogger-blog, and my shared items.

It would be great if i could choose to have the items i tag as shared, be included in my own blog, seamlessly weaved in, based on date/time. As a result, people reading my blog, would also see the items i wanted to share. And if they would search my blog through the searchbox, the items i shared would also be seached/found.

Is this an option Google could make available (even retro-fit it, so all already shared items get weaved in ;-)?)

Thanks & kindest regards,

Raoul.

Hi, people! I wasnt seen the "add a blogroll to your site." link too. So I cleaned de cache and did a refresh. It worked!
Thank You soo much Steve! I was really wishing for this feature!

I'll echo the call for some CSS control of the output. As your current blogroll shows, the output is very, very large (full size font, and extra line between each entry, etc.). It's better than *not* having it ... and thanks, Steve, for doing this! ... but there are so many other things I'd like to do with this that it's tough to do as it stands.

You have used
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft:8px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright:8px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft:8px;
-moz-border-radius-topright:8px;
css for rounded corners. This obviously will create issues with IE. Let me know when you fix this…
Great work.
Cherian

sorry about the multiple posts.

... and click on "add a blogroll to your site." ...
- I would but I'm afeared of making the slightest change... blogspot has gone XML , they tolerate my old CSS but the slightest change and I flip to vanilla XML
all that effort I put into my CSS gets trashed, and I need months of study of the new XML ... problem is I dont have a cushy salary like last year, and who wants to do that shit on their own time?
So my template is frozen for all time....
... pity that blogspot cant pick up on my old CSS ...

this is really good.. I am going to do it right now. I have a lot of such 20% projects in mind, sucks that I don't work for Google ;-)

Nice work.
Now if only we were able to rename a tag/folder!!!

oh, even better, cant GReader group the same news, from different sources like it does on GNews?
see here http://jaiku.com/channel/GoogleOS/presence/18420515

Steve,

Thanks you for building my Google Reader Dream Feature! This is one of the Google Reader features that I asked for months ago and I have been waiting for ever since.

Thanks for all your effort on this!

i am unable 2 see this in my tags page :( xcould only see the add clip thing. xp, FF2 and ie7

Hi, Steve, great work! But... it only sorts the blog list alphabetically.
The beauty of Bloglines blogroll is that the sorting thing is based on an updated premiss: you can see, in the fly, what blogs were update - they are the one's on the top of the list. That's the work a blogroll should do, i suppose. I think it woundn't be to hard to implement this option (maybe by default :-) in Google Reader Blogrool. It's the "clipping" thing but only with the blog names in it. What do you think, Steve? Can you do it...or figure out a solution?
Meanwhile i'm going to rollback to bloglines
Regards!

Great JN :-) that´s something i´m waiting for to long.

The blogroll feature has suddenly stopped feeding anything to my blog. The feature is still in my sidebar with a "blogroll" title, but no blogs are listed underneath.

I notice that while you still have this post about the blogroll on YOUR blog, that I don't actually see the feature in your sidebar anymore.

What's the deal?

Mike Hardin

To everyone that asked for a feature: I've passed the goodies along.

To Mike: Seems to be working for me! Maybe some minor blip in the interwebs? :-)

Cheers,
Steve

I absolutely love this widget and it had me importing all my bloglines feeds into Google Reader. Although as I suspected the widget doesn't actually work on my wordpress.com blog, due to the widgets use of javascript.

I have been searching for ages for an alternative way to do this but no luck so far. I can live without all the aesthetic niceties, I just want an auto updating list of my RSS feeds. Is there any way to do this, or shall I stop wasting my time looking?

Love it!

Just googled, found this, copy'n'pasted, and killed my old blogroll ;) nice.

...and by now i also created a Wordpress widget that auto-generates the code ;)

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-reader-blogroll-widget/

Good effort done for building the Google Reader. My main concern is that is it safe for sharing legal documents through this Google Reader. Is there any law or any some rules regarding the use of this application?

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