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Too much information and not enough filters? Check out Mashable’s latest article, Slow Feed Movement: 7 Tools to Filter the RSS Flood, which suggests choosing from seven tools to focus the flow of information. Two which caught my eye were the Best of Friendfeed feature and TweetDeck, an Adobe Air desktop application.
Google Reader just rolled out a new feature in the form of a chart which provides RSS feed details about the number of subscribers, items posted, and time of day and day of the week each was post was published.
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb gives us Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader. He has some very interesting suggestions including using an RSS filter such as AideRSS to sort out and subscribe to only the most popular posts in each feed to save yourself time. Here are his 7 tips:
Read/Write Web aggregates the four most recent posts from ten websites you may never have come across and presents them in an annotated guide to finding fantastic things. Here are their ten sites, click through to the original article to view the posts from each:
MakeUseof.com has created a guide to some of the lesser-known ways to utilize RSS feeds including SendMeRSS which will forward any RSS feed to your email inbox, TwitterFeed which will forward several RSS feeds to a Twitter account, and Wigitize which will let you add RSS feeds to your website in a customizable widget. Check out the full article for more.
Erica Marie DeWolf of eMarketing & New Media pens Six Creative Uses for RSS and Using RSS Feeds to your Advantage in which she provides useful tips on how to make the most of RSS technology. Through these two articles DeWolf advises:
Subscribe to a custom News RSS feed
Develop an RSS Feed for your non-blog site
Use eBay’s RSS option
Watch for new music on iTunes
Keep an eye on your personal brand - your name
Subscribe to others’ del.icio.us bookmarks
Subscribe to the blogs and websites you look at often
Manage you and your company’s reputation
Broadcast a feed of your blog or a keyword Blog Search on your website