RSS: filter and re-mix
Here are some ways you can maniuplate feeds to only receive the content you want to receive (helps with information overload).
Sometimes you only like some of the content coming from a feed but you don’t want to unsubscribe…a way to alleviate this situation is to subscribe to a category feed if available, otherwise make your own with the tools below, or make a search term feed for that particular website or weblog.
Also below are some ways to re-mix feeds (merge feeds into one mega-feed) so all your content is streamlined into the one topic-based feed…some tools also can filter for search terms.
This inturn can be re-syndicated…great newsmastering tools for developing topic portals.
MAKE A SEARCH FEED
MAKE A LINK SEARCH FEED
MAKE A SITE SEARCH FEED (another version of a native feed)
MAKE A SEARCH TERM FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (filter)
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (category feed for your blog)
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH WITH A SEARCH TERM
MAKE A RELATED FEED (related articles to your blog)
MAKE AN OPML SEARCH FEED
MAKE A RE-MIX FEED (splice and/or filter)
Eg. using RocketNews [RSS]
Blogs
- Bloglines
- Feedster
- Technorati watchlist
- Feedplex (FyberSearch XML)
- Icerocket
- Blogdigger
- Blogpulse
- Daypop
- Waypath
- Rocketnews
- PubSub – blogs
- A9 blogs
- Findory
- Google Blog Search [ADDED 14/10/05]
Web
News
- Icerocket
- Daypop
- Rocketnews
- Yahoo! News
- Google News – Gnewsfeed or ScrappyGoo
- News Pad – Pr Web
- PubSub – PR
- Topix
- Findory
- MSN
Groups
Social Bookmarks
- Zniff - sort by time
- Gataga [ADDED 20/06/05]
Tools
- talkdigger (rss engine spliced) [ADDED 19/08/05]
- Kebberfegg (meta-search) [ADDED 7/10/05]
Blogs
- Bloglines (citations)
- Feedster (link)
- Technorati watchlist (enter the web address)
- Blogdigger (enter the web address)
- Blogpulse (enter the web address)
- Daypop (link:)
- Waypath
- PubSub – Blogs (url:)
- IceRocket - Blogs (enter the web address)
- Google Blog Search (link:) [ADDED 14/10/05]
Web
News
- Daypop (link:)
- PubSub – PR (url:)
- Yahoo! News (link:) this is broken
Groups
Social Bookmarks
Not available as an RSS feed in Furl, openBM, CiteULike.
Not sure about others, such as Simpy, Spurl, etc..
Tools
- talkdigger (rss engine spliced) [ADDED 19/08/05]
MAKE A SITE SEARCH FEED (another version of the native feed)
Note: use OR or | where available for multiple sites
Why do this…if you already offer a full-text RSS feed, generate one of these feeds to also offer an excerpt RSS feed.
Blogs
- Feedster (site:, or
author:, or url:) and many more - Blogdigger (
author:, site:, or blogID:) - Icerocket
(author:, or blogID:) - Waypath (press the + icon on any item, or site:)
- PubSub – blogs (source:)
- BlogPulse (url:”_”)
- Google Blog Search (site:, or inblogtitle:, or blogurl:) [ADDED 14/10/05]
Web
News
- PubSub – pr (source:)
- Yahoo! News (site:, or inurl:) this is broken
- Topix (source:)
Groups
Tools
MAKE A SEARCH TERM FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (filter)
RSS Readers
- Bloglines (search my subscriptions) it has to be the only feed in your aggregator
- Feedmarker
- Web RSS Reader
There are probably many other RSS readers with this feature, I wonder how many can search in just one RSS feed.
Blogs
- Icerocket (author:, or blogID:, plus the search term)
- Feedster (site:, or author:, or url:, plus the search term) or more simply see Limit to ONLY this RSS URL
- Blogdigger (site:, or blogID:, plus the search term)
- Waypath (press the + icon on any item, or site:, plus the search term)
- PubSub – blogs (source:, plus the search term)
- BlogPulse (url:”_” AND search term)
- Google Blog Search (site:, or inblogtitle:, or blogurl:) [ADDED 14/10/05]
Web
- Icerocket (site:, plus the search term)
- Google – Google Alert (site:, plus the search term)
- MSN (site:, plus the search term)
News
- PubSub – pr (source:, plus the search term)
- Yahoo! News (site:, or inurl:, plus the search term) this is broken
- Topix (source:, plus the search term)
Groups
Tools
- ReFilter (filter only) [ADDED 20/07/05]
- FeedShake (splice & filter) [ADDED 25/07/05]
- Feed Digest (splice/filter/re-syndicate) [ADDED 5/08/05]…see more
- Blogdigger groups (splice & filter)
Eg. using Blogdigger [RSS]
Blogs
- Blogdigger (subject:)
- Technorati Tags [ADDED 16/06/05]
- IceRocket Tags [ADDED 20/07/05]
News
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH (category feed for your blog)
Eg. using Blogdigger [RSS]
Blogs
For Blogdigger you can use blogID: instead of author:, and for IceRocket you can use +blogId: instead of author:
To find your blogID on both engines just do an author: search on IceRocket, and a site: search on Blogdigger, then on one of the results from that author click on focus, blogID is more unique than author as many people could have the same author name.
News
- Yahoo! News (advanced search) this is broken
- Topix (source:, together with cat:)
This is like making an RSS feed for a category in your blog (use the OR function to make a feed of multiple categories within your blog)
A more manual approach is to bookmark every post in a social bookmark manager with the tags labelled the same as your blog categories…the tag RSS feeds can be used as your blog category RSS feeds (del.icio.us allows you to combine categories)
MAKE A CATEGORY FEED WITHIN A SITE SEARCH WITH A SEARCH TERM
Blogs
- Blogdigger (site:, together with subject:, plus the search term)
- IceRocket Blogs (author:, together with tag:, plus the search term)
News
- Yahoo! News (advanced search) this is broken
- Topix (source:, together with cat:, plus the search term)
MAKE A RELATED FEED (related articles to your blog)
Eg. using Findory - blogs [RSS]
- Findory - blogs (enter blog name, then click on the source [your blog name] from one of the results)
- Waypath - related weblog posts (enter URL [only at the page level])
- Feedster (OPML search)
- Kebberfegg (meta-search)[ADDED 7/10/05]
MAKE A RE-MIX FEED (splice and/or filter)
- Feed Digest (splice/filter/duplicates/re-syndicate) [ADDED 5/08/05]…see more
- RSS Mix (splice/view)
- Blogdigger groups (splice/filter/view)
- Feedmarker (splice)
- FeedJumbler (splice)
- Feedburner (splice)
- FeedCombine (splice) [ADDED 20/06/05]
- Ufeed (splice del.icio.us, blog feed, and flickr feed) [ADDED 28/06/05]
- ReFilter (filter) [ADDED 20/07/05]
- FeedShake (splice/filter) [ADDED 25/07/05]
- rssWatcher (filter) [ADDED 12/08/05]
- feedcatch (rss archive) [ADDED 15/08/05]
- talkdigger (rss engine spliced) [ADDED 19/08/05]
- BlogSieve (splice/filter) [ADDED 29/08/05]
- Feed Findings (splice/filter) [ADDED 29/08/05]
- Frankenfeed (splice) [ADDED 12/10/05]
- Rojo (splice) [ADDED 14/10/05]
- KickRSS (splice/view) [ADDED 14/10/05]
- aggRSSive (folksonomy for feeds and spliced feeds/view) [ADDED 20/10/05]
- MySyndicaat (splice/filter/view/duplicates) [ADDED 13/1/06]
- FEEDblendr (splice) [ADDED 22/02/06]
- feedpile (splice/view) [ADDED 22/02/06]
- Suprglu (splice/view) [ADDED 22/02/06]
- Peoplefeeds (splice personal feeds/view) [ADDED 22/02/06]
- Bozpages (splice/3 views) [ADDED 22/02/06]
- FeedMix (splice/install) [ADDED 10/03/06]
- Feed Sifter (filter) [ADDED 22/03/06]
- Feed Rinse (filter…also by tag, author, etc…) [ADDED 24/03/06]
- FeedMix (splice…also create and scrape feeds) [ADDED 30/03/06]
- Kinja (splice/view/opml) [ADDED 11/04/06]
- Feedbite (splice/filter/view/tags/opml) [ADDED 14/04/06]
- Atiki (splice/filter/view) [ADDED 14/04/06]
- RSS Distiller (splice/install/view) [ADDED 18/04/06]
- Ziki (splice personal feeds/view) [ADDED 24/04/06]
- Pulverati (splice/filter/view/tags/) [ADDED 1/05/06]
- Feed Collectors (splice/filter/view/tags/opml) [ADDED 1/05/06]
- xFruits (splice/view/tags/mobile/email…and more) [ADDED 2/06/06]
- RSSmesh (splice) [ADDED 22/08/06]
- Rasasa [ADDED 27/12/06]
- ZapTxt [ADDED 27/12/06]
- Blastfeed [ADDED 27/12/06]
- Advanced RSS Mixer [ADDED 19/02/07]
- Turtilla [ADDED 16/05/07]
- RSS Mixer [ADDED 30/07/07]
- aideRSS> [ADDED 24/08/07]
- Also checkout the lifestream services eg. afeeda [ADDED 30/07/07]
Also know as; blending, splicing, compilation, synthetic, meta…feeds.
Note: Google seems to be covering blog content.
Eg. site:libraryclips.blogsome.com
Using link: only returns results from the blog in question instead of other blogs (isn’t meant to show who is linking to you).
Check out, Re-syndication: sidebar updates and more
Also see the great list from 3spots, Search Engine RSS generators.
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ADDED 31/08/06: feedgit, tagjag, kebberfegg
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