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Rasasa will send RSS information where you need it most.

From the help page:

“Because your not always online when important news breaks you might miss certain messages or receive them too late. Most of the time that’s not very important but for some news it’s very convenient or even crucial you receive it asap.”

Once you sign up to some feeds, you can first filter (boolean) for keywords if you like, then you can tell it where you want the feed information delivered.
It’s up to you, you can get it delivered to your email client, IM client, SMS (a combination)…so now you have one service that can deliver you information when and where you want it…you can even turn your feeds on/off. Other settings are how many messages a day, choose the hours of the day you want messages, and beyond these hours do you want the message sent to your email, or don’t bother at all.

From the information page:

“With Rasasa you can decide about each single feed if it’s important enough to receive on your phone and if you want to receive it all the time or (e.g.) just during office hours. You can also apply filters to each feed to make sure you receive the important bits.”

There is OPML import, and it also creates a spliced feed for your feed set.

There is a bookmarklet to easily add feeds, and a subscription button for your blog, so when people are reading your blog they can add you to their Rasasa account (no doubt they will have the bookmarklet anyway).

Whether its RSS-to-TXT(SMS), RSS-to-IM or RSS to email, it is covered in the one service…I think people will like to do all these things if it is easier enough, which it is when it is packaged in the one service.

In my ways to make Reading Lists post I forgot to add a few resources

…most of the resources I mentioned are web-based, but here are some desktop OPML editors:

- WOW OPML Browser (the crew from OPML Manager)
…check out the screencast.

- OPML editor…check out the screencast for blogging from this great tool

- activerenderer

- mindjet

- omni outliner (mac only)

Since these are desktop OPML editors you need to host the OPML at a URL, and also host the outline at an OPML.

Using Reading Lists

More importantly, News River (by OPML editor crew) is another tool that can use Reading Lists.

What about OPML2PDF…this takes the first 10 feeds from your Reading List (max. 50 posts per feed) and coverts it into PDF…you can also read feeds like a PDF RSS Reader…cool idea to read a print of the latest from your Reading List on the train.

There is also Taskable…although I haven’t been able to get this to work (it always says “loading”)

And of course my favourite of the moment, Optimal…soon this will have more documentation and allow to code it for blog sidebar support…some competition for OPod and Bitty Browser.

Also see my post on newsmastering services not being able to use Reading Lists yet.

My current Reading List

See my Reading List on the sidebar of my blog or see it at Bitty Browser.

Try the OPML URL at Opod.

Read it in Optimal

See it at OPML workstation, where you can read it via OPML search

Get a PDF of the lastest posts from the first 10 feeds in my Reading List
(max 50 posts per feed)

I need to make a new TagCloud, it’s not accepting my OPML URL for some reason.

I need to make a Link List (Blogroll) mirror of my Reading List…this means the items in my OPML URL will be the blog homepages instead of the blog feeds
…then I can import this into Rollyo…hang on I forgot Rollyo doesn’t use OPML.

I’ve mentioned before it would be good if Rollyo could use OPML, so when ever my OPML URL changes it will automatically reflect in Rollyo, sames goes with TagCloud.
I don’t want to change a hundred things everytime my Reading List changes, the beauty is that it can happen automatically…we need a push for services to not only accept OPML files or OPML URL, but to actually subscribe to the dynamic OPML URL.

I guess I don’t have to make a Link List (Blogroll), I could just use the Reading List in ScoopGo…again one day these services will be savvy to OPML…I want to search via an OPML URL.
NOTE: ScoopGo searches in feed content, not HTML content, so it may be incomplete since not all feeds are full-text…the other thing is ScoopGo only accepts 30 feeds.

[ADDED: Grazr]

My last post got me thinking, what we need our newsmastering portals, such as Blogdigger Groups and MySyndicaat, to do is use Reading Lists.

Sure you can import/export Reading Lists, and both have a dynamic OPML URL (actually Blogdigger Groups doesn’t import OPML’s)
…so if you subscribe to my Blogdigger Group OPML URL and I add a new feed, you will automagically see the new feed in your personal RSS Reader.

But what if I started a Blogdigger Group and instead of entering several feeds, I just imported an OPML URL, like you can at MySyndicaat…but I’m saying when you do this it doesn’t just import a static OPML file, it actually subscribes to it.

So if I go and add/delete a feed from my Reading List (my personal OPML URL), it will also add/delete that feed in the Blogdigger Group…you don’t need to go into the admin section to delete/add feeds, you do it remotely from your OPML URL….whatever or whoever subscribes to that OPML URL will show the changes.

This is what BlogBridge does, it can both create and use Reading Lists, at the moment only two newsmastering services in the market (mentioned above) create Reading Lists, but they can’t use one.

The only major difference is that BlogBridge is a Personal RSS Reader and a Blogdigger Group is a Public RSS Reader…so I can’t see why this hasn’t been done yet…who knows, OPML is moving so fast at the moment, it will probably happen real soon.

Back to creating for a moment…

Although, the benefit of BlogBridge is that you can create and use as many Reading Lists as you like, whereas the newsmastering services can at the moment only create one Reading List…well at MySyndicaat you can create as many feedbots (Reading Lists) as you like, but you can’t place them on a sidebar and select which river of news you want to see. Every feedbot has it’s own page, what about a master page where a selection of your feedbots (Reading Lists) are listed, and you can just click on the river of news you want…or subscribe to the RSS feed or OPML URL (Reading List) of that particular feedbot…a spliced feed of the whole lot could also be generated, as well as a root OPML. This means all the feedbot OPML URL’s would be items (OPML inclusions) in the mega feedbot OPML (root OPML).

The layout (explained in the above paragraph) would just look like a personal RSS Reader.
You’d have a subscription pane consisting of feeds in folders/tags, you can click on a folder and read the river of news, or click on a feed and read content by feed…this folder has a spliced feed (like in Rojo) and it also has an OPML URL Reading List (Rojo doesn’t have this feature, but I’m hoping)…this would be the same for each folder in your subscription pane.

You could also have a spliced feed for the whole account, and a OPML URL Reading List for the whole account…the added feature in a Public RSS Reader (newsmastering service) is that each folder can have it’s own HTML URL.