Do you subscribe to your own RSS feed? Sometimes, if you could see what I can see (and what your readers-prospects-customers see). When I click on your RSS button – if it goes anywhere – I sometimes get sent to a page that looks like this: Feedburner gives you analytics AND a stylized, browser-friendly result when readers click on your subscribe button. Now that you’ve subscribed to your own RSS feed, you can do even more “display merchandising” from your Google Reader (or however your read your feeds). You should. MORE >>

The debate lies with the fact that more and more people are starting to use Twitter, Twitter lists, Facebook, and other social means to just get the news from the streams they follow on these sites rather than typical RSS Readers like Google Reader. For instance, even on my own Google Reader shares, you can get them right on my @jesseslinks Twitter stream if you don’t ever want to touch Google Reader (yet I’m still using Google Reader to provide those to you). Into thin air it’s gone in the new UI. link]. MORE >>

Google has announced it will make a number of changes to Google Reader ‘in the next week’, and by the looks of it, they’re going to break a great existing product and tool which is used by a lot of professionals to be able to shoehorn some extra interaction into Google+. Normally, I’d advise waiting and seeing what the changes are to a product before complaining, but the post on the official Google blog gives enough information to be really, really worrying. Google hording data inside Google+? Seriously? No following? MORE >>

Google. Facebook. Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. 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. There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Readers shared items. Feed Rinse is a best of class RSS filtering application. Feed Sifter is an almost painfully simple RSS filter that filters in by keyword. About. MORE >>

The last few days in my RSS readers have had me feeling like we are in the middle of blog post reruns - the best of 2009 edition. Within the bolus of hundreds of new items welcoming my every visit to Google Reader , the debate flared up again this week as to whether the very act of consuming content within an RSS reader was a dying one. For the dissenters , the growth of social sites like Twitter and Facebook , and the announced closure of Bloglines is enough to say the tide has turned. The long-held advantages of RSS readers over Twitter are still there. MORE >>