Thoughts on Bloglines..
Bloglines has augmented the way I work, I visit it multiple times a day…it has become an extension…
Since I’ve been using it for a long while and lived to see all the new features, I would like to comment some feedback on its functionality.
Channels
Even though I’m managing my feeds in folders the list is getting rather long (I don’t think sub-folders is necessarily the solution)..instead of opening multiple accounts (one for personal, one for work-related stuff, or by subject) I would like to see channels within the same account. I find this works really well with the web monitoring agent, WatchThatPage when I clip an item a prompt box asks which channel to file this in, then later you can organise it within a folder. Then when I’m reading my account I can specify a channel, avoiding scrolling past irrelevant folders. I wonder if this would mean you would have multiple OPML’s, one for each channel, and a total one.
Search
Apart from searching my subscriptions could it search selected feeds from my subscriptions, that is could all my feeds have a check box where I could select the feeds to search…good to search a single feed from a blog that doesn’t have a search box of it’s own (I know I can use Google site search for this but if I do it via Bloglines I can then subscribe to a search query RSS feed for a single blog - this feature would be great for Blogs where I only like some of the content…it could reduce the number of irrelevant posts.
Does anybody know if you can site search on Technorati, Feedster, Blogdigger or Pubsub and subscribe to the feed of the results?
Citation feed
Read my post in the Bloglines forum…apparently this is coming soon.
Admin
I find that I can’t rename a folder, and that I have to make a new folder then transfer all the feeds across…maybe I’m missing something..
Duplicates
Is there a way to filter the same posts that re-occur in many of my feeds…it seems hard as some posts are virtually the same but just re-edited a tiny bit…I suppose I mean can my reader know that a permalink has already been shown in my reader (not a link within a post but the URL of the actual post)…if I want to see it again I will search for it in my subscriptions, but I don’t want to see it in new content…this happens a lot especially when you subscribe to Furl or del.icio.us feeds.
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You can create a Blogdigger Group of you subscriptions (import via OPML from Bloglines) and then search either the whole group, or filter on individual blogs to search across.
Our main search page also uses the blogID: and site: fields to search just a single feed or site.
You can also put a search box on your own site to provide site search, details here: http://www.blogdigger.com/blog/2005/01/18/1106028202000.html
Comment by Greg Gershman — February 25, 2005 @ 2:05 pm
You can do a site search on Feedster and subscribe to the results as well. You can use weblog_domain=xxx.yyy to restrict the search to a given site and provide the terms you want to search for. On the results page there’s an orange XML button on the top right, that links to an RSS feed of the search results.
Comment by Mike Rowehl — February 25, 2005 @ 4:44 pm
download the latest version of You Subscribe:RSS from You Software. It’s an RSS aggregator that works in Outlook. You can download it here: http//www.yousoftware.com/subscribe
It’s free.
You can enter a search from most of the sites you list and then receive RSS feeds based on your search criteria. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
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