About a year ago, Gavin Robinson and I swapped our Google Reader subscriptions. Neither of us is affiliated with an institution, so blogs really are how we stay connected to the digital humanities community. We’d each amassed a few dozen digital history subscriptions, and when we imported each other’s OPML files, we each discovered new and relevant sites.

I’d love to swap RSS subscriptions with other digital humanists, and what better community than THATCamp?

Possible problems:

1. Where can we put these files for easy exchange? I haven’t found a way to attach .xml files to posts in WordPress.
2. Google Reader expects you to import and export OPML files wholesale, which may involve wrecking carefully planned folders and tags.
3. Should we prune our subscriptions to DH-specific ones? I really don’t think THATCampers need to read my college roommate’s blog about whiskey and men’s shoes. It’ll be in my export unless I do some work removing it from the file by hand.