Ok, for the moment let's put aside the "do you or don't you" discussion and talk about the organization of RSS feeds. IF you use an RSS reader on a regular basis, have you figured out a good organization system for said feeds?
I am a database person by profession, but I am having a hard time with the overarching organization for my groups of blogs. If you have a system that works for you, would you share?
My categories, flawed as they are:
TECHNORATI (This is just keyword searches, etc)
FOOD
LOCAL
GENERAL
EAT LOCAL PARTICIPANTS
FOOD ISSUES
FRIENDS
PHOTO BLOGS
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Hi Jen:
Oh, I hope I'm in at least 7 of those categories! :D
And, flawed as I am, the one I can't help you with is Technorati.
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Mine are 'favorite food', 'other food', 'family & friends', 'photo', 'technology', 'news', 'life' (ie dooce), 'the funnies'. I wish it were easier to move a feed from one category to another, add 'post it' notes along the way.
I have never been able to figure out what an RSS feed even is! LOL
Andrew, thanks again for the good information. I previously took your advice and signed up my blog with feedburner. At the same time I started reading a few blogs on RSS using Bloglines. But I already have an account with Newsgator,and it sounds like it might be better. Right now I am only reading a few of my very favorite blogs this way, but I am already seeing why people prefer it.
I've got a ways to go before I'm that organized, but I do have feeds organized in my Safari menu bar:
News (from traditional newspapers' feeds)
Blogs ( a handful of link-focused weblogs)
TechNews (a handful of news sites about tech/geek stuff
Food (this site and a handful of link and food news focused blogs)
Design (web building focused blogs)
That's about all I can keep up with.
I am with rachael. I signed up to kinja, bloglines and rojo. but none of the "do it" for me - and I think it is precisely because of this reason. I didn't work out how to organize them.
Perhaps i should buckle down and do it. Which of those three (or alternative) does anyone think I should go with?
Doesn't google have a something?
I was and am very keen on the idea behind news feeds and for a while subscribed heavily. But guess what? I ended up quitting because they are just not quite working out for me. As an example Food Porn Watch is a better 'news feed' for food blogs than any other I have seen. In addition for the sites I really like to look at a lot - I just go to them - it seems easier and the experience is better.
Having said all that, if someone comes up with better tools to sort and screen feeds and combine them then they may finally work out.
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