April 1st, 2006

RSS Feed Mixing

Prior to today, I used only RSS Mix for my feed mixing, i.e. combining many feeds into one, needs. For example, I used it to combine individual feeds from the DigitalPoint forum or combine the individual feeds from the various is-there blogs. You can see the mixed feed I created for the is-there blogs here.

It’s useful if you want to manage the “clutter” that starts forming when you touch your hundredth or two-hundredth feed subscription, especially if the feeds in question are updated not very frequently.

But RSS Mix is no longer my only choice, with FeedBlendr being the newly discovered alternative (from Performancing BTW, and the article - which is on finding content through tag feeds) is a good read). Unlike RSS Mix, Feedblendr has a more Web 2.0 feel, with big bright red font, rounded corners, and more importantly, tagging of the resulting feed.

This way, you can mix all your feeds for one topic and give it a proper label, compared with RSS Mix’s generic number label. Moreover, you get to import an OPML file rather than manually enter feed URLs one by one. Heck, I wish I found FeedBlendr ages ago. Would have saved me tons of time.

Are there other services like this out there, bigger and better perhaps?

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Posted by ZMAng

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