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Tools for Taming Your Feeds It seems to me that most of the Web 2.0 apps emerging every week are devoted to some aspect of retrieving and organizing Internet content. Every day, there are new tools for sharing favourites. Likewise, the ability of RSS to push relevant content to our desktops has led to a swarm of online applications for reading, organizing, and managing feeds.

Good thing too, because it doesn't take long to start feeling overwhelmed once you discover this potent automation tool. I'm struggling to keep up with the daily flood of posts provided by just nine feeds — and that's probably a fraction of the volume inundating the seriously feed-addicted. RSS has put us all at risk of information overload.

I have test-driven several of the feed readers linked from the sidebar at left below, but it was not until the recent discovery of two new tools that I began to feel that I might just be getting the chaos under control:

I find both of these applications more intuitive and easier to use than the other feed readers listed here. Now, if I could just marry them, I'd be truly happy. For the time being, I'm using both of them to fend off the information deluge.

Posted by Pam at Thursday, May 18, 2006 Labels: Blogging, RSS, Tools and Resources, Web 2.0



Thanks for the kind feedback. If you have questions or suggestions about Pageflakes please contact me directly at email@example.com

Ole Brandenburg

9:32 PM, May 18, 2006 ggwfung said...

you've really done wonders with Blogger ... extending it to become a full user interface. What did you base your template on?

11:48 AM, May 21, 2006 Peety said...

Great site..


6:37 AM, May 23, 2006 
Thanks for the positive words Peety and ggwfung.

Re how this blog evolved, I modified Douglas Bowman's Minima template (one of the default Blogger templates) into a 3-column layout. Details are here. I experimented with a couple of methods for adding categories. The one I finally settled on is described here.


7:52 AM, May 23, 2006