If you are subscribed to a very big blog like Mashable your un-read items swell big on daily basis. Most of us are interested in reading content on a specific topic. However, we tend to waste lot of time digging stuff in feed’s un-read items.
Possible alternative is free online service ‘Feed Rinse’. As the name suggests it can filter any feed to your requirements. For example you want to only read about ‘gadgets’ – simply enter the filter keyword ‘gadgets’ to the RSS feed and its done. Here is simple procedure to use this service:
1. Import your feeds -Enter the url for your feeds, import your OPML file, or use bookmark-let to import feed details.
2. Set up your filters - You can rinse/filter your feeds by keyword, author, tag, etc, or filter profanity and more.
3. New filtered feed is ready - Use the new filtered feed for your reading pleasure in any of your RSS reader like Feed Demon
Feed Rinse is like a spam filter for your RSS subscriptions. Only read stuff you want to read, no crap included!
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There is another similar free online service to Filter RSS feed ‘Filter My Feed’ to overcome RSS fatigue as a result of information over-board.
One more tool to play around with RSS feeds is Feed Blendr. You can mash-up and combine number of RSS feeds into one feed with Feed Blendr.