The new version of Microsoft Outlook that we now have on our desktops allow us to subscribe to blogs and have new posts show up within Outlook. There are a couple of ways to add blog subscriptions to Outlook. The first way is to add the URL for the feed–the feed for any blog has a unique web address–into Microsoft Outlook. The second way, which I’ll demonstrate in the video below, lets you add more than one blog subscription at a time; the second way requires that someone has created a special file, called an OPML file, that bundles together the URLs for more than one blog feed.
I’ve created an OPML file that bundles together four feeds: all the posts in the reference blog, all the comments in the reference blog, all the posts in the Idea Lab blog, and all the comments in the Idea Lab blog. The OPML file I made can be downloaded from the “Blogs” page in the reference wiki and then imported into Microsoft Outlook. This video shows you how.