Plussers: Bryan Ruby's Massive Google+ Blogroll
A key concept of keeping communities intact or at least in contact is for prominent members to be readily findable.
Bryan Ruby has compiled a list of 189 significant contributors to Google+, with links to their blogs and (generally) Twitter feeds. That's posted to his own blog: "My Massive Google+ Blogroll".
I've filled in RSS/Atom feeds for all but a small handful of the entries (with a script -- I'm obsessive, but not that obsessive), and made that available in various formats:
- OPML -- this can be imported directly into most feed-readers.
- HTML -- for posting wherever.
- Markdown -- in case you like that sort of thing.
The entries have also been added to the #PlexodusWiki G+NNDB (Google+ Notable Names Database), another repository of public contact information: Google+ Notable Names Database. We'll roll those in with the general categories over time. Descriptions and bios would be useful.
The script can be used on other blog lists as well, though it'll likely have to be adapted to different formats. It retrieves feeds based on either HTML metadata or typical locations used -- parsing that out is ... interesting. Processing is 189 records in about 4m40s. That could be sped up considerably with parallelisation.
