This is a guest post from a good friend Dave Day. He is a Mac fanboy and technology guru. He is also the creator of the MacVideoGuides videos displayed here on WillINeedIt. Why not follow him on Twitter?!
If your like me you probably subscribe to far too many RSS feeds, don’t get me wrong I love RSS it’s the way I get most of my news. Recently I’ve reached my limit of what I can reasonably get through in any one day. I’d ideally subscribe to more feeds but I really don’t have the time to read them all. I’d rather not suffer the ‘unread item guilt’ or ’second inbox syndrome’ that you can sometimes get with unread feeds. This is where the RSS aggregator Fever from Shaun Inman can help.
If you own your own blog and publish regularly, you will probably be quite well acquainted with FeedBurner and it’s associated services. If you aren’t, Feedburner is a Google owned service that allows you to track and analyse your RSS subscribers, showing you how your visitors interact with your content.
When you sign up for a Feedburner URL, you are assigned with a very generic feed address resembling something like this: http://feedproxy.google.com/willineedit. You may want to use your own URL for purposes such as branding or even SEO. This article will show you how to set up your own Feedburner URL for use on your blog or website.
The web is all about syndication, information is passed from source to source without any due strain on the receiver. One of the most popular ways to syndicate content online is to use RSS, with Google Reader leading the way in the feed reader market.
SuggestRSS is a tool developed to scan your existing feeds and suggest new content you might be interested in. By uploading your OPML file, SuggestRSS will match your current feeds to other users of the service, outputting sites that people with similar interests have subscribed to before.