Comments on: RSS anxiety http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/11/18/rss-anxiety/ sharing ideas thoughts and feedback Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Stefan Svartling http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/11/18/rss-anxiety/#comment-14957 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:15:55 +0000 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/11/18/rss-anxiety/#comment-14957 I have made a site that filters my own postings from all my sites into categorized Newspages, and every Newspage has it's own RSS Feed. So for example - If a visitor is interested in "Gadgets", he or she could subscribe to the Newspage named "Gadgets". In that way the visitor gets all my postings about "Gadgets" from all my sites in one RSS Feed. The problem is that the Newspages is filtered by keywords and that is not 100 % perfect. For example: If someone subscribe to the Newspage named "Audio" wants to read about audio encoding, mp3, ogg and such stuff - How to filter? Which keywords? If I use the keyword MP3 you also get postings about Gadgets who can play MP3 files. You understand the problem? So the filtering is not 100 % perfect, but it's far more easier for a visitor to read or subscribe to what's interesting this way. For every Newspage I can use as many keywords I like and specify how many posts the page will show. You can visit the site here: http://svartling.hopto.org/directory/ Also there is an OPML file of all the sources for the site. But not for the filtered Newspages yet. You can also see filtered Newspages here (with RSS Feeds): http://svartling.hopto.org/index.php?q=2005/sep/directory The link is to a "Knowledge Book" I'm working on, that will be using filtered Newspages with postings from all my websites, but more down to detail than on the above site. Newspages such as "AJAX", "FFDSHOW" and "RSS". With these Newspages you could subscribe to a specific subject instead of an whole site or category. The "Knowledge Book" starts with a Category at the top of the "tree of pages" and then divided into smaller specific Subjects/Tags, related to the top Category. The whole "Knowledge Book" is made like an Outliner. Please note that I'm still working on this "Knowledge Book", so there is not so many Newspages there yet. It will never be finished, because I will add Newspages to it all the time. Just like blogging, but in this case - every blogpost I made will have it's own feed with related posts filtered by keywords... Think about it: Quite amazing isn't it? For example: If I want to make a blogpost about a description of AJAX - Why not make a Newspage instead, and "tag it" with the keyword AJAX and get a feed with related posts from all my sites about AJAX at the same time? I think "Newspages" is one way for a subscriber to minimize the problem with Information Overload, and for me as a Blogger - I've got a better way to publish my related posts from all my sites into one centralized page and feed automatically. Stefan Svartling I have made a site that filters my own postings from all my sites into categorized Newspages, and every Newspage has it’s own RSS Feed.
So for example - If a visitor is interested in “Gadgets”, he or she could subscribe to the Newspage named “Gadgets”. In that way the visitor gets all my postings about “Gadgets” from all my sites in one RSS Feed.
The problem is that the Newspages is filtered by keywords and that is not 100 % perfect. For example: If someone subscribe to the Newspage named “Audio” wants to read about audio encoding, mp3, ogg and such stuff - How to filter? Which keywords? If I use the keyword MP3 you also get postings about Gadgets who can play MP3 files. You understand the problem?
So the filtering is not 100 % perfect, but it’s far more easier for a visitor to read or subscribe to what’s interesting this way.
For every Newspage I can use as many keywords I like and specify how many posts the page will show.

You can visit the site here: http://svartling.hopto.org/directory/

Also there is an OPML file of all the sources for the site. But not for the filtered Newspages yet.

You can also see filtered Newspages here (with RSS Feeds): http://svartling.hopto.org/index.php?q=2005/sep/directory
The link is to a “Knowledge Book” I’m working on, that will be using filtered Newspages with postings from all my websites,
but more down to detail than on the above site. Newspages such as “AJAX”, “FFDSHOW” and “RSS”. With these Newspages you could subscribe to a specific subject instead of an whole site or category. The “Knowledge Book” starts with a Category at the top of the “tree of pages” and then divided into smaller specific Subjects/Tags, related to the top Category.
The whole “Knowledge Book” is made like an Outliner.
Please note that I’m still working on this “Knowledge Book”, so there is not so many Newspages there yet.
It will never be finished, because I will add Newspages to it all the time. Just like blogging, but in this case - every blogpost I made will have it’s own feed with related posts filtered by keywords…
Think about it: Quite amazing isn’t it?
For example: If I want to make a blogpost about a description of AJAX - Why not make a Newspage instead, and “tag it” with the keyword AJAX and get a feed with related posts from all my sites about AJAX at the same time?

I think “Newspages” is one way for a subscriber to minimize the problem with Information Overload, and for me as a Blogger - I’ve got a better way to publish my related posts from all my sites into one centralized page and feed automatically.

Stefan Svartling

]]> by: Ben Ruedlinger http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/11/18/rss-anxiety/#comment-14264 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:25:19 +0000 http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/11/18/rss-anxiety/#comment-14264 This post really hit home for me. This was one of the main reasons that I started Blogniscient ( http://www.blogniscient.com ). In fact, I wrote a blog post about my information overload and Blogniscient's beginnings at Blogniscient's Blog last week ( http://blog.blogniscient.com/2005/11/12/a-brief-history-of-blogniscient-part-i/ ). Ben Ruedlinger, PhD President, Blogniscient, Inc. This post really hit home for me. This was one of the main reasons that I started Blogniscient ( http://www.blogniscient.com ). In fact, I wrote a blog post about my information overload and Blogniscient’s beginnings at Blogniscient’s Blog last week ( http://blog.blogniscient.com/2005/11/12/a-brief-history-of-blogniscient-part-i/ ).

Ben Ruedlinger, PhD
President, Blogniscient, Inc.

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