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In my recent post about using Harvest to track my time, I discovered that I was spending too much of my time consuming information. As a result, I’ve been working on ways to further increase my efficiency, starting with some Twitter efficiency improvements, and I thought that a post about becoming more efficient at consuming blogs and other news content via RSS would be a good next step.

Improve Efficiency in Reading RSS Feeds www.rss-specifications.com | 7/27/10 12:29 PM

What I learned from that discussion is that while the RSS Reader market is indeed in decline, there are still a number of compelling use cases for RSS Readers. Not to mention new tools worth checking out. So in this more optimistic post, I list 5 reasons why you should continue to use RSS Readers.

My conclusions in the previous post still stand: 1) Google now dominates what's left of the RSS Reader market; and 2) RSS reading is a very fragmented experience circa 2009-2010 due to Twitter, Facebook, start pages like Netvibes, Firefox bookmarks, and more. However, a lot of commenters wrote that they still use RSS Readers each and every day.

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Medical and Health RSS news feeds. www.rss-specifications.com | 7/13/10 12:34 AM

Fifty page booklet with information about how educators can use Web 2.0 . www.rss-specifications.com | 7/13/10 12:34 AM

Given the wide range of exposure surrounding RSS, I think it is really important to handle your feed in a way that will be usable by as many people as possible. One way to accomplish that is to apply a bit of structure and style to your feed in case an inexperienced user were to somehow find their way to your RSS via their browser.

Applying CSS to RSS www.rss-specifications.com | 7/13/10 12:34 AM

Color psychology is a phrase used to describe the effect that color  has on human behavior. The psychology of color is certainly not a new concept. In fact, it has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Colors tend to carry non-verbal and subliminal messages, and the color spectrum evokes different emotions and physiological responses in people. The reactions people have to specific colors may be influenced by many factors, including their culture, location, gender, or even their age.

The Emotion of Color in Website Design
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RSS2HTML - free PHP script for displaying RSS feeds as HTML web pages.

FutureRSS - PHP script for displaying only current RSS feed items.

RSS2HTML Cache - module to speed up the display of RSS feed items.

RSSmesh - merge multiple RSS feeds into a single feed.

SQL2RSS - create RSS feeds from an MySQL database.

RSS2HTML Pro -  expands the functionality of RSS2HTML by allowing publishers and webmasters to dynamically create an index of feed items.

RSS2SQL - create database from RSS feeds.

RSS Filter - create filters for RSS feeds. www.rss-specifications.com | 7/13/10 12:34 AM

Innovative, memorable, and compelling domain names are becoming more and more difficult to come up with. The following tools can help webmasters find great domain names for their online businesses....

Domain Name Suggestions www.rss-specifications.com | 7/12/10 12:38 PM

So, you have built an empire on the Internet, and now it is time to move on. Well OK, maybe its not a full-blown empire, but it has taken substantial blood, sweat and tears to create, and you want to make sure you get a reasonable amount of money for all your efforts. Determining the value of a website can be tricky, because a number of factors can play a role. Factors involved in determining the resale value of a website include...

Buy, Sell or Value a Website www.rss-specifications.com | 7/6/10 12:17 PM

California has launched a news hub that, in real time, compiles and updates its many agencies Twitter, RSS and YouTube news feeds.

The news aggregator site, unveiled Friday, July 2, collects in one place content from more than 200 department and agency sources. With more official sources being added daily, the news hub scoops real-time feeds from agencies and already has 83 Twitter accounts, 40 YouTube channels and nearly 100 RSS feeds, an Office of the State Chief Information Officer press release said. www.rss-specifications.com | 7/5/10 12:20 PM

Twitter has been experiencing a number of fail whales since Tuesday, a service-outage problem the micro-blogging site attributed to a system-side issue.

Twitters lack of reliability is going to lose them followers. www.rss-specifications.com | 7/5/10 12:20 PM

Feedmarklet gives you your own RSS feed instantly, with no sign up required. Adding content to your feed is a snap- just browse the web as you normally would, and when you find something interesting, press the bookmarklet button in your browser bookmark bar to immediately add the page you are on to your feed. www.rss-specifications.com | 7/5/10 12:20 PM

Feed2Mobile is a free service which offers a bridge between Web-based and Mobile content. www.rss-specifications.com | 7/5/10 12:20 PM

Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions mumble — the translation of tweet — and give mini-blogging a distinctly Japanese flavor. www.rss-specifications.com | 6/29/10 12:37 PM

Many small businesses make mistakes, and smart entrepreneurs will learn from the mistakes of others. With that in mind, we have compiled a list of some common mistakes that small business owners often make....

Top 10 Small Business Mistakes www.rss-specifications.com | 6/29/10 12:37 PM

Do not assume that just because your blog is perfect, your RSS reader experience will be the same. A few things to double-check to help your content and its promotion be that much better:

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NOAA weather alerts via an RSS Feed . www.rss-specifications.com | 6/29/10 12:39 AM

This article explains how to encode characters in an RSS feed . Course the article is only relevant if you are manually making the RSS feed, almost all the RSS software applications will encode the characters for you. www.rss-specifications.com | 6/29/10 12:39 AM

Tips for creating a Password Protected RSS Feed? www.rss-specifications.com | 6/29/10 12:39 AM

Chinese servicemen are banned from opening blogs on the Internet for confidentiality concern, according to revised regulations of the Peoples Liberation Army www.rss-specifications.com | 6/28/10 2:00 PM

RSS Footer is a plugin lets you add an extra line of content to articles in your feed, defaulting to Post from:  and then a link back to your blog, with your blogs name as its anchor text. www.rss-specifications.com | 6/7/10 12:27 PM

The WordPress RSS Image Widget uses PHPThumb to automatically generate good-looking thumbnails from RSS feed images inside your template. www.rss-specifications.com | 6/7/10 12:27 PM

Ping List of services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. www.rss-specifications.com | 6/7/10 12:27 PM

The core of FeedZero.com is an adaptive filtering mechanism that learns what information you're interested in - and not interested in. It uses the same bayesian technology as industry-leading spam filtering software to effectively classify incoming information in a way that makes it easy for you to keep up with the information that you want to know about.

All you have to do is sign up, subscribe to some RSS feeds, and then start letting us know which items you like and do not like. www.rss-specifications.com | 6/7/10 12:27 PM

A variety of Science RSS feeds from Scientific American www.rss-specifications.com | 6/7/10 12:27 PM

Video tutorial explains Why Use RSS feeds? www.rss-specifications.com | 6/1/10 12:29 PM

Create a custom RSS feed using PHP and mySQL using SQL2RSS . www.rss-specifications.com | 6/1/10 12:29 PM

Because using RSS is about sharing and delivering information, it seems perfectly natural for libraries to adopt this technology for library services. Here are my 10 ways for how libraries can use RSS.

10 Ways Libraries Can Use RSS www.rss-specifications.com | 6/1/10 12:29 PM

TwitterLive forwards blog posts to Twitter. www.rss-specifications.com | 5/27/10 12:38 AM

Collection of NASA RSS Feeds www.rss-specifications.com | 5/27/10 12:38 AM

Once you have settled into the rhythm of writing your blog, one of the most important steps is to begin accumulating subscribers. Your RSS subscribers will probably turn out to be your blogs most valuable asset in the long run. Here are a few tips to help you achieve this more effectively.

9 Tips to Increase RSS Subscribers www.rss-specifications.com | 5/27/10 12:38 AM

345 RSS feed icons for RSS feeds. www.rss-specifications.com | 5/25/10 12:27 PM

Sitemaps are simply road maps that search engines can use to navigate their way through the various parts and sections of a website. The sitemap essentially tells the search engines where the various pages are located on the site. This is particularly important for websites that have multi-level navigation, which automated spiders might have difficulty with.

Ins and Outs of Sitemaps www.rss-specifications.com | 5/25/10 12:27 PM

FeedSqueezer web services platform delivers audit-ready analytics, a powerful rules engine and flexible feed and content delivery for all types of feeds, including podcasts and other downloadable media, they are inviting sign-ups for beta.

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Atom2RSS Converter - This tool will let you convert your blogger atom feed into an RSS2 feed that can be imported into WordPress. www.rss-specifications.com | 5/17/10 1:05 PM

Feedzirra - A Ruby feed library built for speed www.rss-specifications.com | 5/12/10 12:21 PM

FeedWind is a RSS feed widget. Simply copy & paste the snippet of code to embed into your web page. It's free and ready to use without having to register! www.rss-specifications.com | 5/12/10 12:21 PM

FeedX is a universal XML feed reader for MODx. Rather than being limited to specific formats, the snippet is capable of parsing and rendering nearly any XML format including RSS, RDF, Atom, you name it. In addition to functioning as a snippet, FeedXs class may be called by 3rd party snippets plugins or modules as a simple method of retrieving cached and parsed XML data. www.rss-specifications.com | 5/12/10 12:21 PM

Universal Feed Parser - Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python. www.rss-specifications.com | 5/12/10 12:21 PM

MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library or any simple watch folder over a local network or even the internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser. The user interface lets you search for titles or browse your whole library by album, artist or genre. You can access your iTunes playlists or create new ones directly in MyTunesRSS. www.rss-specifications.com | 5/10/10 12:21 PM

At some point, however, I got serious about setting up a listening post so that I could monitor how well my blog posts were being picked up and linked to by other bloggers. As a result, I added my own blog to my reader and some Google Alerts for my own name and blog. I also added to the reader a couple of sites that could track links to my blog, such as Ice Rocket.

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Feed your blog to Twitter and Facebook using TwitterFeed .
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RSSPump is a new javascript news ticker. www.rss-specifications.com | 5/6/10 12:34 PM

So, you've built an empire on the Internet, and now it is time to move on. Well OK, maybe its not a full-blown empire, but it has taken substantial blood, sweat and tears to create, and you want to make sure you get a reasonable amount of money for all your efforts. Determining the value of a website can be tricky, because a number of factors can play a role. Factors involved in determining the resale value of a website include...

Buy, Sell and Value a Website www.rss-specifications.com | 5/6/10 12:34 PM

Find the details of the RSS Subscription Extension by Google www.rss-specifications.com | 5/3/10 12:27 PM