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Rojo has implemented a great feature to display information from it’s RSS reader/Bookmark Manager content called Scriptlets

…so now you can display the latest contents from stuff you read for all to see on the sidebar of your blog (or wherever).

I suppose it’s another way of sharing the contents from your information sources (if you dare), well at least the stuff you get from your RSS reader.

Great web 2.0 stuff implementation, interacting your RSS reader with your blog.

You can do this a number of ways:

Recent stories from your Rojo account
I wonder if you can limit this to a tag (In Rojo instead of folders, you can organise content by tags, this means the same feed can live in more than one place)

Recent stories you have flagged

Recent stories you have shared
What about the other way around, stories you and your contacts are sharing, ie. recent stories from your collective Rojo contacts…and even filtered by tag

Recent stories by tag (personal clippings folder) or by tag from the Rojo community (similar to a social bookmark manager)

…you can even customise the look and number of results
…I wonder if you can make certain feed tags, or story tags, or even a single feed or a single story, private, so it is not re-syndicated.

Now I posted something kind of similar a while back…I wanted an RSS of my Bloglines account so I could re-syndicate (using one of the many tools) the latest from my Bloglines account into the sidebar of my blog.

A post I made the other day takes this idea further and pushes it to a summary of your latest RSS reader content organised into computer generated tags (hot keywords)

Other ways of sharing sources and stories:

Share your OPML
(just to view, not to re-syndicate)

Superfan
(choose from the re-syndicate toolbox to generate code from the RSS feed)

Search your OPML
(choose from the re-syndicate toolbox to generate code from the RSS feed)

Public RSS Reader

Social bookmark manager latest bookmarks

I still think it would be great if you could get an RSS feed instead/as well as the code for all these new services from Rojo…this way you could, for example, get the feed for recent stories from your Rojo account whack it into a 3rd party re-mixer to filter some search terms, taking it that one step further in customisation…then generate the code via another 3rd party service.

Feed Findings is yet another re-mixing tool (splice and filter up to 10 feeds - also mentions it has Boolean operators).

I’ve changed my email subscription from bot-a-blog to Feedblitz

They have had a great take up, nearly 2000 subscribers within the first 2 weeks, what an awesome effort!

Feedblitz enables you to track subscribers and so forth, seems the next best thing for RSS-to-email…also you can import your subscriptions from bloglet….check out the comparison.

I like their pitch, it not only promotes their RSS-to-email but it just simply rings true…from the website:

“Why bother blogging to email? Because not everyone’s ready for blogging, RSS, Atom, XML, aggregators… The jargon is enough to put all except the most dedicated off. And that means that you’re losing readers.

Email is ubiquitous. Everyone has email. When you publish your blog or RSS feed using FeedBlitz you are taking advantage of the one communications medium you know everybody has. And because it’s familiar to everyone, it’s an easy task to get readers to sign up. You get more readers - in some cases, more than 50%! With FeedBlitz it’s simple.

50% Circulation Boost - How do we know? Personal experience. We run a corporate blog with a small circulation. According to FeedBurner, it’s typically accessed by aggregators representing about 40 individuals. Then we added email capability, including sign-up forms on the web site and in the email newsletter. An additional 30 people now get the blog via email - that’s a 75% circulation boost. For negligible extra effort. Not too shabby.”

Like bloglet, it works the other way, you can use Feedblitz in replace of an RSS reader for current awareness (to an extent), subscribe to as many feeds as you like, and receive an email showing the full post.
The benefit of email is that you can archive every post and use the search facility to find content, especially with Gmail.

When you are sent a notification it shows all new posts from all your subscriptions in the one email, this works different than other services, such as R|Mail…where you get an email sent just for one feed, so you’d probably get heaps more of emails if you subscribed to multiple feeds, also R|Mail doesn’t have an account login page to view your details.

Although, since R|mail requires a new subscription for every feed, it enables it to be used with Gmail as an RSS reader.

Apparently podcast (enclosure feeds) are coming soon.

Here is their blog.

Here are 2 posts from a while back, trialing RSS-to-email:
RSS to email?
RSS to Email wrapup

Here are some RSS/Email type bookmarks from my Furl account.

BlogSieve, yet another RSS re-mixer:

Splice (up to 5 feeds)
Filter (in/out)
Sorting

I really think at the moment that no-one can out do FeedDigest (bonus re-syndicating as java, html, etc…also set up as an account of all your re-mixes).

Only thing is that filtering out a search term requires a positive term…from a comment on one of my posts by developer of FeedDigest:

“Feed Digest supports negative terms. Just put a minus sign before the particular word, and entries with that word are stripped out. Of course, there must be at least one positive/other term. It’s like Google.”

Added to the list.

[via CogDogBlog]