Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. 26 Comments. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. Weve also taken a look in the past at automatic filters such as Feedhub ( our coverage ) which learns from your behavior to suggest posts, or AideRSS ( our coverage and here ), which uses outside metrics to determine which items in an RSS feed are the "best." Comments. MORE >>

Microblogging has reduced the time to market of content down to minutes and seconds, a huge improvement over blogs which brought it down to hours from previous forms of communication. RSS on the other hand is a pull. Users will check RSS at their own pace and it will take more time to get buzz around your content. This is changing the “pull&# dynamic inherent in RSS (which may become passive for folks that are too busy to keep up on RSS) to a “push&# dynamic through Twitter – but to people already interested in you. hire people. MORE >>

In the beginning God created the Blogs and the RSS. Last week, Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm published a Blog post titled, Yes, blog comments are still worth the effort. It seems like there's a movement for more and more Blogs to not bother having the comments enabled. Blog comments are becoming increasingly valuable. We need to take a step back to remember how far we have come in order to get an indication of the future (and what it could mean to the overall value of Blog comments). They can comment on the link that they shared on Facebook. content. MORE >>

listened to some savvy writers and decided to slow the car, reach across, open the passenger door, and shove my RSS feeds out of the Pushing Social express. believed that RSS feeds were dead and I wanted to do my part. Although, Feedburner was still dutifully signing up RSS users. No problem I thought, the regulars are just waiting for some good content. In the back of my mind, I remembered the day I turned my back on RSS readers. Both of these apps turn your Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds into magazine-like publications. ignored everyone of them. MORE >>

While some noisy Web pundits have declared RSS dead, smart developers see expanded social sharing and connections as an opportunity to rethink news consumption, leveraging RSS as a utility and making it the backbone for new services. Amidst the rise of Twitter , Facebook and other networks, we've seen the launch and rapid adoption of products like Pulse , Feedly , Ninua , Flipboard and others who have taken the geeky parts out of RSS and presented new ways to consume news. Content can be viewed by individual source, or sorted for recency, with newest items at the top. MORE >>