Library clips

BlogBridge just doesn’t stop, they keep innovating RSS reading, now they have released a product where you can become the feed master…here is the insightful post about BlogBridge : Library.

Essentially you are making your own library of feeds (browse by category)…this is like making your own blog directory, I wonder if you can graze the feeds (try before you buy), I wonder if you can make river of news digests…it seems you can package the feeds in a category in OPML.

Imagine searching across the content of all these feeds (or limit to a category)…like your own Technorati.

There is also a built in announcement blog…great idea Pito.

Up until now there has been alot of enterprise RSS Readers, but the next obvious step is RSS directories (”…where the hell do ya find these things you call feeds”…).

There could even be a section to organise inhouse blogs.

Pito makes it clear the you have to gather the feeds for the collection, and BlogBridge : Library is the store to display your collection.

It also seems others can be given a section to manage…in essence services like Feedbite, Kinja and Feed Collectors are similar, but the content is managed in a social environment (other similars to note are rssOR, and Flitic…but again these are in a tagging environment).

This is a bit similar to newsmastering, only this is more a feed directory whereas newsmastering is an end product where you display content from carefully selected and tuned websites (whether you have to create search feeds, convert email to RSS, monitor website to RSS, etc…). Your newsmastering efforts are displayed as, perhaps, a topic portal…the idea is people can visit your site daily or they can grab the feed or email of this portal.
The reason they would visit your site daily is that you have created a news portal so personalised that they won’t have to visit multiple sites a day…ie. sometimes we like only a bit of content from the portals we visit daily, so the idea is to make your own all-in-one.

From Pito’s post, just to get the idea:

“BlogBridge:Library (BBL) creates a flexible web based structure to showcase Feeds, Reading Lists and Podcasts to employees in your company, or members of your organization. It will be the ’store’ where users can browse and search for recommendations of content to read with their Aggregators. And, here’s the important point: these are recommendations by people in your organization for people in your organization.

- a section for Marketing, Engineering, Human Resources and Manufacturing
- Or perhaps in a different kind of organization, there would be sections for Biology, Medicine, Technology, Management, and Research.
- Or again a different kind of organization, there might be sections for Policy, Government, Public Relations, etc. “

Related posts:
KM2.0 newmastering
Internal communication blogs and km2.0

Optimal (OPML grazer) has added a few features, a bookmarklet to graze any OPML page you are viewing (what about a right-click option, now that would be really handy).

You can download Optimal, and the most exciting a widget…I’ve been waiting for the blog sidebar dressing since the first incarnation of Optimal.

Other OPML grazer services with widgets (OPod, Grazr, Bitty).

Some of my posts on OPML grazing:

Your own public feed grazer
Optimal: listen to feed content
Ego graze who is talking about a blog post within the post itself
Optimal OPML Browser: great for feed grazing
Web browse a list of links in a blog post via OPML
Bitty Browser: save space with OPML
Grazr some feeds
Auto grazing from the page you are on
Grazing Technorati Search
Grazing Lists
Graze tags from your blog post

NOTE: this would be easier if I just used tags at the end of my blog posts to discover content I have blogged on the same topic.

Top 10 sources is totally re-vamped and you can now make your own to add to the collection…I’m featured on Adam Greens List.

All you do is add your 10 favourite blogs of all time, or about a topic, etc…and it generates your own Public RSS Reader.

You can view latest posts sorted by blog (show with latest syndicated content)…this is the default, or you can view as a river of news (sort chronologically), ot just get a list of the source names (show source titles only).

RSS and OPML

Your Top 10 - Has OPML, lacks RSS
The category your Top 10 is under eg. People - Has OPML, lacks RSS
The main page - Has OPML, and has RSS

Index

My issue is that what happens if another editor wanted to create a Top 10 in a topic already there…

At the moment “beer” is a Top 10, but it may need to be made a sub-category, where you then can choose from a few Top 10’s that are about beer…not sure if this is the direction it will be heading.

Here what the FAQ says about this:

“Q: Can I create a Top10 site that has already been done if the sources are different?

A: Yes, you can create a Top 10 site on a topic already done. However, the title and URL must be unique. We already have a Top 10 Sources for Running, but there can be a site called “Running Tips” and “Running Journals” and of course, “Running2”.”

Here is my Top 10 Sources…mine are based on my Top 10 essentials…or grab the Reading List.
(It’s easy, make as many as you like…OPML import makes it all the quicker)

If you would like to graze these feeds try out Grazr or Optimal.

These blogs are important to my daily reading so I have these feeds going through Rasasa (RSS to IM or email or SMS). Everytime one of these blogs publish a post, bam! a new IM appears on my desktop…it’s in my face, there is no way I’m going to miss the boat…on some days I don’t have time to get to my RSS Reader…so this is my sure method of keeping updated.
NOTE: I used this paragraph as part of my editorial.

See my other posts about Top 10 Sources:
Top 10 Sources: Newsmasters paradise
Top 10 sources for me and more on OPML

Some what similar tools are listed in this post (see the “Feedback” heading).

[ADDED: what about the tagging (owner only) your Top 10, this way we could find lists from topics/keywords (tags) within a category…I can see something like this needed as it starts to grow.
On second thought tags and tag clouds can look messy making it daunting to use for some (except the web heads of course), I must admit the directory method looks clean and easy to use.
But again as the list grows I wonder what the browsing experience will be like, some kind of topic search at least will be needed.]

Also what about a feed or blog search…the results will tell you which lists (Top 10’s) a feed is in.