I love the concept. I love discovering what other people are aggregating (one of the reasons I still digg blogrolls – I know, I know, its soooo 2003 but I still dig it).

Dave recently announced on the OPML Support mailing list the reopening of the Share Your OPML site…

When he first ran the idea a while back (I wasnt blogging at the time) it seemed slick, and a natural extension of the syndication work he was doing. A big part of aggregators, IMHO, is feed discovery and acquisition (something sage does really well). Seeing what other people are aggregating is the best kind of discovery – not blind, not link hopping. If you trust or like a creator, then you would value their opinion. I regularly check to see what’s on the bookshelves of friends and colleagues. I would love to see what Dave or Leo Laporte or Scoble is subscribing to. Odds are we have a lot of the same stuff but there will always be something new.

Take a look at the top 20 of the top 100 provided by Dave in a sneak peak:

1. Scripting News This entry links to a RSS feed.
2. Jon’s Radio This entry links to a RSS feed.
3. Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger This entry links to a RSS feed.
4. The Doc Searls Weblog This entry links to a RSS feed.
5. TechCrunch This entry links to a RSS feed.
6. Wired News: Top Stories This entry links to a RSS feed.
7. GigaOM This entry links to a RSS feed.
8. Amyloo’s OPML blog This entry links to a RSS feed.
9. Boing Boing This entry links to a RSS feed.
10. Chris Pirillo This entry links to a RSS feed.
11. Don Park’s Daily Habit This entry links to a RSS feed.
12. Joel on Software This entry links to a RSS feed.
13. Official Google Blog This entry links to a RSS feed.
14. Steve Gillmor’s InfoRouter This entry links to a RSS feed.
15. The Shifted Librarian This entry links to a RSS feed.
16. thisislisa’s OPML blog This entry links to a RSS feed.
17. 43 Folders This entry links to a RSS feed.
18. A List Apart This entry links to a RSS feed.
19. Adam Curry: Daily Source Code This entry links to a RSS feed.
20. Blog Maverick This entry links to a RSS feed.

All of these guys are on my list (and in the aggregators of the Producers who work for me). Except… Ihave never seen This Is Lisa and Amyloo’s blogs. Cool -something new to check out. New ideas. New directions.

I have wondered out loud what the plans were for the future – to allow users to subscrive to an OPML file for additions/changes? One of my favorite functions on DIGG is seeing what my friends are digging – in this case its seeing what the folks in my aggregator are aggregating themselves.

I already dropped a line on the mailing list about this, but it is tres slick.

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