Creeva’s World 2.0

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be doing a few arti­cles on RSS feeds and how to use them for more then just read­ing your news. Mak­ing RSS work for you and do less — that’s my motto. The first step of this is to start hav­ing RSS feed management.

To cen­tral­ize my feed man­age­ment I use feed­burner, this allows me to cen­tral­ize my RSS feeds all in spot. The time it has taken me to get all these feeds entered into feed­burner is far les, less time then it took to track all my dif­fer­ent RSS feeds down across the internet.

Now when­ever I start a new ser­vice now feed­burner is my first stop after sign­ing up for the ser­vice. This allows me to manip­u­late all my data from one spot. I do a few tricks through feed­burner but one the one prob­lem I do have with feed­burner is that it doesn’t allow you to aggre­gate your feeds into a sin­gle feed.

I use Afeeda for RSS feed aggre­ga­tion. This allows me to place all my feeds into a sin­gle feed. The direc­tions for adding feeds are pretty self explana­tory so I won’t go into pre­cise instruc­tions but if you get stuck let me know.

I then go back to feed­burner and put the aggre­gate feed in here — so I can manip­u­late a sin­gle feed for back up and hope­fully in the future RSS to ICAL convPub­lish Postersion. I also use Afeeda to put all the web­sites I reg­u­larly read into a sin­gle feed that I can sub­scribe to. The last thing I can say about Afeeda is that I chose it because it sup­ports the OpenID for­mat (for which I use ClaimID).

These two sites allow me to do every­thing I could want to do for my RSS feeds right now. If you are going to do some RSS manip­u­la­tion I rec­om­mend using the two ser­vices I men­tioned above.