Comments on: How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds — Thoughts and Reactions

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[...] feed reader all day long to find just the right tidbits to share with others. In 2007 we got to see how Scoble reads over 600 feeds, and that image still sticks in my mind. Well, that and I saw him at Rackspace’s headquarters [...]

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[...] now I think Scoble reigns as champ of the feed-obsessed — seriously, have you seen the dude’s OPML?. He uses “impressions” (glances at stories, not [...]

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How do you read your feeds? » Ryan Block — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:43:06 +0000

[...] now I think Scoble reigns as champ of the feed-obsessed — seriously, have you seen the dude’s OPML?. He uses “impressions” (glances [...]

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myFeedz - Articles on "aggregator" — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:13:32 +0000

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By: Jay Neely

Jay Neely — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:12:50 +0000

Tom, I hate to admit it but I haven’t taken the time to filter my own feeds using Pipes yet. My to-do list is pretty lengthy, and getting more value out of Pipes is in about the middle of it. So far I’m using it to combine a bunch of twitter feeds into just one:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=BFv5pZ8L3BGA_aTIjUnRlg

And also to translate a blog from Dutch to English:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=MnEOcgAS3BGk8b48qWIyXQ

I received an invitation to try out Google Mashup Editor, which I’ve barely scratched the surface of tonight, and I’ll post more about at some point later. I’m currently using it to try and filter Twitter’s public stream so that the output is only links.

I think this would be pretty easy to do in Pipes, I’m trying to learn how to do it in GMashEd, because then I want to up the ante by somehow seeing where each link actually goes(since the use of services like TinyURL and URLTea are so common), and then comparing those links to links bookmarked on del.icio.us, and displaying the results on a public page. I’ll name the mashup Twitterlicious or something like that.

Hope to talk with you more at some point!

Best,
Jay Neely, Social Strategist
http://socialstrategist.com

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:00:39 +0000

Jay, thanks for the link to your post on Yahoo Pipes. It was informative and I liked that you included info about Google's upcoming mashup tool. Actually, since Google acquired Feedburner, they may really be able to do interesting things with all these feeds. I wrote about Yahoo Pipes in an earlier post. I think it's an amazing tool, but does it really support hundreds of feeds in a feasible way? I think it may be time-consuming to put that together. I did clone one of the blog news alert pipes. Earlier I was having trouble with the formatting of the RSS feeds, but I think they fixed it now. Have you created some pipes that I can explore? One major flaw with the Pipes right now is not being able to see which feed the post is coming from without first clicking the post. Surely they'll fix that soon, though. Still, if I were to invest a lot of time and energy into mashing up feeds, I'd do it with Google's new one, which is still in beta. Thanks for the comment.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:49:56 +0000

Dan, thanks for the links. I’ll check out your feed.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:48:39 +0000

I agree that feeds shouldn’t be a burden — they should be invigorating. Of course, email feels the same way. At first it’s exciting to see new messages, then burdensome to clear the inbox.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:47:36 +0000

Thanks for the comment and also pointing out my misspelling. I corrected it.

By: catherine

catherine — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:39:56 +0000

I don’t know how many feeds I have but I do purge them regularly – I unsubscribe when looking at the number of posts causes a sinking feeling rather than an “oh goody new posts!” reaction.
Btw, you wrote, “Should I whiddle down my feedreader to 20 feeds? ” I think you mean “whittle down”