Edward Vielmetti has a nice roundup of resources related to reducing clutter in the office. After some of our recent and ongoing cleanup attempts, these look like they will come in handy.

After the recent release of Share Your Opml, I’ve finally shared mine. For the moment, at least, it looks like I am in the top 100 “Most Prolific Subscribers” (in other words, those with the most feeds), coming in at #93 with almost 400 feeds. I’m not sure yet if this is a good or a bad omen, although I am comfortable with the number of feeds in my feed reader, and I am nowhere close to the 8000+ mark held by the #1 spot.

Aside from the “My List is Bigger Than Your List” contest , the service has a number of other interesting features. The “Subscriptions Like Mine” gives a ranked list of people who have similar collections. I also like being able to look through my list and see who else is subscribed to certain feeds. For example, by clicking on the asterisk (*) I can see who else is subscribed to The Shifted Librarian blog.

I should note that I find the “River Of Links” - that is, one long list of alphabetically sorted links - format a bit hard to absorb. If you agree, you can always see my OPML file as a grouped set of links, similar to how they ar arranged in my feed reader.

It also looks like the site is running on WordPress - something that I’ve been thinking about as a way to better manage the UVM blogroll, which is badly in need of a fixer-upper.

What’s on your list?

It’s been a bit quiet around here lately … too quiet. So quiet that I think I’ve been on the verge of becoming a Bad Blogger. This has partly to do with the fact that I am now posting to the CTL blog, so some posts that would have been going here are, and will be, showing up there.

However, at the risk of becoming even less focused, I’ve recently started a new blog project. It’s actually more of a podcast/screencast project, and despite the cheesy name, I’m hoping to use it as a place to store, categorize, and disseminate instructional material. As always, comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome. Enjoy!

Ed Batista raises some interesting questions about services that help people market themselves (and their children) for admissions.

Bryan Veloso reminds us of the importance of using a “sandbox” in development. He also describes the use of multiple developer sandboxes, and includes a nice example of a workflow that uses this type of testing/development space.

Fred Stutzman has some advice for students using Facebook. Many of the concepts he discusses translate well into other forms of identity on the web, including Livejournal and other blog sites, MySpace, as well as anything that can be indexed by google, such as publicly archived mailing lists.