Today we released the UVM blogroll. It’s pretty basic in terms of functionality (see to-do list below), but includes the ability for authenticated (UVM NetID required) users to add their blogs to the list, as well as add link to a web feed for their blog. It also generates an opml feed, so those inclined can import it into their readers.

It could use improvement, however. Some next steps:

• Let users edit/remove the links that they added (part of me now wonders if we shouldn’t have just set up a WP install for this purpose alone, and let authenticated users register and add links as authors).
• The pages could use a better explanation of rss and web feeds, and how to use them
• Add feed icon links to the list of links on blog.uvm.edu
• Link to xml/opml on blog.uvm.edu
• Post a winter photo on blog.uvm.edu (thanks to Holly for doing it and Charlie for the picture)
• It might be fun one day to set up one of those plugins to pull and display random posts somewhere …

Thanks to John for getting the code started.