Earlier in the week I blogged about how I could deal with my ever-increasing RSS feeds.
I’ve been setting up Blastfeed to filter an aggregated feed of my news sources, based on keywords. I’ve only been using it for a couple of days – first impressions of the Blastfeed system are good as it’s easy to use and seems to work.
I’m not sure it’s designed to do quite what I’m doing with it, as selecting from a large number of feed sources isn’t easy and I can’t fit many keywords into the search criteria – meaning I have had to set up a number of filtered feeds. I’d originally envisaged setting up one with some clever search terms. Having several means I often get the same post showing up in multiple feeds – if the post contains two keywords it shows up in two separate filtered feeds.
This article at 37 Signals caught my eye, as it’s discussing exactly the same problem as I’m having. The post and comments make interesting reading.
The Feeds 2.0 service that is mentioned looks interesting – as it claims to learn and filter intelligently based on what I’m interested in, rather than relying on static keywords to filter on. I’ve signed up for beta access, so hopefully that’ll come through soon so I can test it out.
I don’t think I’ve found the solution yet, but I’ll keep trying!