Library clips

DashLog is a simple blog if all you want to do is point to websites, in essence it is a clip blog, link blog…

If you see a website you like just hit the bookmarklet and annotate some content. The title (embedded link to the original URL) and your comment will be posted to your dashLog…also each entry has a permalink.

Although you can do this with any blog this is a no-frills platform specifically designed for link blogging.

Categories would be great (of course with RSS feeds).

It would be great to add entries to your dashLog from within Bloglines, just the way Bloglines clips to the Bloglines clip blog.

via Library Stuff’s Link blog

ADDED 4/05/05: I noticed that all blog posts for each day come under a parent title which is the days date.

Stop the press! …well this news is a bit old now, RSS Mix is a new tool that mixes feeds to make a compilation feed.

Previous tools were Feedmarker and Blogdigger groups…but the RSS mix feature in these 2 tools were just an aspect of these systems. What I mean is that Feedmarker is an RSS reader and social bookmarking tool, RSS mixing is just part of its package…and Blogdigger groups primary function is an automated RSS reader with a searchable archive.

I’ve been waiting and waiting for a nifty tool to perform this quick and easy function. Once you have made your feed you can also generate code to syndicate the content on a web page, you know that old RSS to Java thing.
I like the idea of an RSS Mix seeming like a workbench where you can manipulate feeds to your liking.

The next suitable feature would be to generate a search RSS feed of one feed (even though you can do this at Blogdigger, it would be good to do all your manipulation at the one workbench - although I don’t know all the processes behind this sort of thing.)

Another rival to RSS manipulation is RSS-Digest, apparently version 3 is coming soon.

Thanks for the links Library Stuff and Web-logged.

Feedmarker is an RSS reader and a social bookmark manager tool in one.

Here is mention in a past post (scroll to the Feedmarker heading)

I already use Bloglines, but I find Feedmarker useful even if you don’t want to use it solely as an aggregator.

Start up an account

Subscribe to some feeds

Organise these feeds into folders, name these folders as you please.

Nothing different yet…

Feedmarker call the folders “tags”, and guess what, each folder has an RSS feed.

What does this mean?

I can subscribe to 10 or 20, etc..of my favourite library RSS feeds and put them in a folder called “Library”.

What I have done is made a compilation feed of all the feeds in the folder…(a la Blogdigger groups)

So take the folder RSS feed and subscribe to it in Bloglines or the reader of your choice.

When I check on that feed I have a stream of posts from all the feeds within it.

Now you can make your own topic folders or tags that hold your favourite feeds.

We are coming back to the idea that Technogeekery mentioned about creating OPML topic guides for library patrons or your clients…this is even easier to grasp for those new to RSS.

These RSS topic tags are different than OPML, as there is only one feed and the content from all the feeds within are read in one stream, whereas when an OPML is imported you actually import all the single native feeds themselves.

Adding to two earlier posts:

Generate a search feed from one feed

Feed filters

These mention my desire to filter each feed so I get only the precise content I want, lowering my information overload and available time.

As it turns out Bloglines does’nt enable this on an individual feed basis, only for all your feeds at once (search your subscriptions option)

The winner was Blogdigger by allowing to search within a feed by using the prefix “site:” or “blogID:” or even doing this within Blogdigger groups…what a gem!

But really I want to be able to do this in Bloglines.

Does anyone know of any RSS readers that can perform this function?

Here are some I haven’t checked out yet:

Awasu
Mysmart channels
PulpFiction
FeedDemon
WURLdbook
Frassle
Klipfolio
Lektora
Newzie

and the others…

On the benefits of all this…

Well it’s just as good or even better than subscribing to a category RSS feed…but let’s remember the content in a category feed is more about the content, whereas a search term RSS feed is just the appearance of a word.

If you are after filtering content in order to read precisely just what you are interested in; this is the way to go to help you with those RSS overload blues.

The flip of the coin is if you are too precise you may miss out on content that may still be relevant and you might comprise the chance of serendipity.

ADDED 05/05/05: Feedster can also search within one feed, generating a refined feed.

Two great posts at How not to blog

Feed filtering (via tags?)

Folksonomic blog post titles? Better RSS feed filter methods? Better Search?

I’m responding to these posts on my blog as I can’t find the comments section on How not to blog

Feed filtering (via tags?)

I know this frustration, you like only some of the content within a feed, they don’t have a category feed so you just put up with it.

I don’t know of any RSS readers that alleviate this on a per feed basis, but as I described in an earlier post you can use Blogdigger to filter feeds.

Folksonomic blog post titles? Better RSS feed filter methods? Better Search?

This takes the previous post up a notch…explains having a system where every blog post has a list of category tags with a rating, and (I think?) to have this information appear in your RSS aggregator along with the title and content.

From the post:

“Clicking on a tag in the chain will take you to a page that displays the appropriate tagged articles from your site and other sites (delicious, Technorati, etc.)…this method can also assist RSS aggregators in filtering articles for you. You could set your reader to display articles from X blog tagged with Yahoo with a weight of at least 6….:”

At the moment we will just have to stick to using category RSS feeds, and if a blog doesn’t offer these, use Blogdigger to make ‘em yourself

Filtering further…try using a search term within a category feed, and subscribe to that precise content (then we will start worrying that we are missing out on stuff!)

ADDED 05/05/05: Feedster can also search within one feed, generating a refined feed.