A highlight of Fridays is the arrival of the latest People and Blogs post in my feedreader. These weekly interviews from Manuel Moreale are a reminder that blogging is still very much alive; the people I meet each week through the feed are fascinating.

This week’s interview is with Yancey Strickler, and I was inspired by his answer to the question “What does your creative process look like when it comes to blogging?”:

Calling what I do a “process” gives it too much credit. All of my writing tends to start with a feeling inside of me. That feeling is often one of agitation combined with curiosity. Something I can’t quite figure out or I’m having a hard time putting my finger on. Writing is how I work through that.

That’s as close as anyone’s ever come to describing my “creative process.”

I followed that stirring of “agitation combined with curiosity” this morning to create1 an OPML file of the blogs of all past People and Blogs interviewees.

Here’s the result, people-and-blogs.opml, an OPML file that you can import into your feedreader to automagically subscribe to all of the blogs.

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1. For the record, here was the prompt to Google Gemini that I used to generate the list:

I need your help creating an OPML file.

Go to https://peopleandblogs.com — you fill find a list of links to interviews with bloggers. Inside a <span> for each blog you will find a link to each blogger’s website, like:

<span class="archive-site">ystrickler.com</span>

You will also find the name of the site in a <span> like:

<span class="archive-name">Yancey Strickler</span>

Extract a list of these sites. Then, for each site, visit the site and find the RSS feed URL for that site.

Give me an OPML file of all of the site names, the URL of the site, and the extracted URL of the RSS feed.

Friday, January 16, 2026 at 9:16 am