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How Do You Consume or Distribute Your RSS Content?
9:00AM Tamar Weinberg | Did you know there are more ways to read RSS content than with Bloglines or Google Reader? MakeUseOf suggest fourteen other ways to maximise sites that have RSS, from utilising previously mentioned FeedJournal to reading RSS content via IM with FeedCrier. Alternatively, for sites that offer RSS feeds but no direct email subscriptions, SendMeRSS is a great way to get that content delivered directly to your inbox. How do you consume or distribute your RSS content outside of the standard feed readers? Share your favorite RSS tools and tricks in the comments. 14 Other Ways to Use RSS Feeds [MakeUseOf] More »
Save time by trimming your online reading habits
2:54PM Sarah Stokely | There are a number of ways to manage the time you spend web browsing, amongst them trimming the number of blogs you subscribe to. I realised today that one easy way to do this would be to define your ‘Must Read’ blogs. I’m considering creating a new folder in my RSS reader (Bloglines, still) called “Must Read”. Every morning when I open my RSS reader, I skim through the full list of my subscriptions looking out for the handful of blogs I always want to read first. These blogs will go into my “Must Read” folder. The others in my list will need to impress me in order to make the “Must” list – and if I can go a while without checking in on them, they can be deleted.So what’s on your “Must Read” list? Mine includes Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist. One of the reasons I like it is that it’s low volume (usually a post every couple of days, from what I’ve observed) and I feel like none of it is ‘filler’ – every post feels worth reading. And while I don’t always agree with the points she makes, I often want to reread her posts, or share them, or follow some or all of the links she includes. To me, these are all signs of a blog worth subscribing to. In fact, I’ve gotten so much out of her blog that I’m picking up a copy of her book today, and I’m really looking forward to reading it.So how do you choose your “Must Read” blogs? Care to share a few of them? More » Google Reader adds feed management tools
9:23AM Sarah Stokely | Google Reader has added a “Discovery” section which recommends new feeds to you based on the RSS subscriptions of people who share similar interests with you. This list is automatically generated and takes into account your location, your existing feed subscriptions as well as your Web History (which I assume means your browsing history). They’ve also added drag and drop editing of feed subscriptions which means you can move feeds between folders, or change the order of your feeds or folders. But the Google Operating System blog points out that you still can’t rename folders or tags.
Google Reader Improves Feed Management [Google Operating System] More » 
