April 3rd, 2006
RSS Feed Filtering
I recently addressed the need for RSS feed mixing, i.e. combining multiple feeds into one using online services such as FeedBlendr, especially to reduce the “clutter” that most bloggers experience with their feed subscriptions.
After reading through today’s batch of blog posts on my still “cluttered” RSS feed reader, I somehow stumbled upon another useful tool to further reduce the amount of blogs (and posts) you have to read (or rather skim through). Richard MacManus over at Read/WriteWeb talks about RSS feed filtering.
Services such as FeedRinse attempt to filter your feeds for tags, keywords or authors that you are actually interested in, rather than read through every single post published on every single blog you’ve subscribed to. Alternative services include ZapTXT, and the various “smart feed” incarnations of many feed aggregators like BlogBridge.
I’ll probably start with FeedRinse since its implementation sounds pretty much the way I want it. While most bloggers might prefer reading the filtered feeds through the very same filtering service (lol, I know this sounds clunky), FeedRinse requires you to export your filtered feeds to a feed reader. Since I use either Bloglines or FeedDemon for my RSS feed reading, this exporting method is probably most optimal for me.
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2 Comments
April 13th, 2006 at 8:31 am
I’d also like to invite you to try out Blog Verticals. It’s currently in an open beta. Feedback is important to use as well.
Basically, it allows you to do feed aggregation and filtering. Then you can share them/adopt them from others.
April 13th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Ahh. An integrated solution (combination of RSS mixing and filtering) then.
Ok. I’ll give it a try.
Thanks.
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