As wonderful as it is to be able to tap into all the information in the world, there are only so many hours in the day to spend consuming it all. Not to worry: With a little pruning, filtering and prioritizing, we can turn the deluge of data into a nice, manageable stream of content. Here is how:

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SportsFeedia contains RSS feeds of sports competitions from NFL to NHL www.rss-specifications.com | 1/17/12 1:27 AM

TumblRSS allows you to import RSS feeds to Tumbler. www.rss-specifications.com | 1/17/12 1:27 AM

No country suffered more than Japan in 2011. Japan was rocked by an 8.9 earthquake, then a tsunami that was created from the quake hit the small island. The tsunami caused significant damage to one of Japans power plants making it impossible to properly cool or shutdown the nuclear reactor. The inability to cool the nuclear plant resulted in a nuclear melt down, and the escape of radiation. When the trifecta hit, the Japanese people earned the world's respect, they managed the tragedy with stoicism and grace. The consequences of this horrible tragedy, and implications of the radiation leaks, into the sea and atmosphere are still unknown. Japan will bear the scars from 2011, for generations to come.

2011 Reflections, 2012 Predictions www.rss-specifications.com | 1/11/12 1:18 PM

1. Mushroom Cloud

The virtual cloud is now a mushroom cloud. More and more applications and data is available virtually. Customers are no longer tied to their desktops, data is accessible in the cloud. As long as you have an Internet connection, you have access, regardless of your hardware.

2. Smart Mobility

Mobile phones have become smart devices, they are more than just phones and alarm clocks. By the end of 2012, it will be hard to find a phone that does not run games, support Internet connections and have built in web browser.

3. Multi-Function Devices

I suspect that devices will begin merging, there is no longer a need for so many gadgets. The functionality of the devices from smart phones, kindles, ipads and computers are redundant and there is likely to be device consolidation as the overlap in functionality increases.

4. Democracy on the Web

The social collective voice will gain power and be much more difficult to manipulate. Reviews and ratings will thrive, and be common place.

5. UGC - User Generated Content

The need and desire of webmasters to create and maintain a steady stream of unique content will be satisfied by user generated content. The web is no longer a flat medium. Interactive user generated content will rule the web in 2012.

What is Hot in Technology for 2012 www.rss-specifications.com | 1/3/12 1:26 AM

No-one enjoys having to regularly refresh favourite websites to ensure nothing is missed. One solution is a technology called RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.

This allows websites to create a news feed to which visitors can subscribe; then, when new content appears on the site, some or all of it is sent automatically to the subscriber.

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For several months I’ve stopped using RSS feeds in lieu of inbound news through email newsletters, Twitter and scanning headlines of web sites directly.

However, I have recently gone back through my RSS feeds, unsubscribed to a few, and will discipline myself to regularly check the fees throughout the day.

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FeedRinse.com is a spam filter for your RSS feeds that allows you to filter up to 500 feeds. www.rss-specifications.com | 12/27/11 4:00 PM

If you read Wikipedia, you will learn that RSS is a type of web aggregator that sends content in the form of a feed to whatever tool you use to read this content. RSS is a convenient tool for those of us who consume a lot of content from the web, but the question is, what benefit does it have for companies involved in content writing management? RSS can help a website develop backlinks, provide an easy access point to your content for clients, and help your content get indexed quickly by major search engines.

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While there is plenty of debate about what journalists should post and to retweet on social networking sites, there is not enough discussion about what’s not getting posted. Specifically, most of what is debated is about what news organizations want to share — not what followers actually want to see.

I am sure there are reams of data floating around corporate offices full of feedback from focus groups and online surveys about what readers want. Yet most news organization feeds are bastions of one-way discussion and self-promotion.

complete article www.rss-specifications.com | 12/5/11 1:19 PM

Apples internal policies regarding how employees handle information both at the workplace and at home were revealed in a leaked document, depicting a tightly controlled and regulated operation with no room for error.

A recent UK court case that questioned Apples dismissal of a retail employee over comments he made on Facebook brought attention to internal policies regarding what can and can not be said about the company.

complete article www.rss-specifications.com | 12/5/11 1:19 PM

Saving time and money is an epic battle dating back to beginning of time, or at least back to the beginning of money. We now live in a digital age where everything moves at a faster pace than ever before. In order to keep up, we must acclimate. For every old, tried-and-true method, there comes a time when a newer, better version takes its place.

Job boards are used in recruitment, not so much as an avenue for candidates to apply, but more so with the intent of reaching out to as many people as possible. Spreading the word about your opening will generate interest from multiple sources, not just those reading your advertisement. It does not matter how they apply; it only matters that they apply. While job boards represent the tried-and-true method, a more innovative way to get the job reach you’re looking for may have arrived with RSS feeds.

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The best blogs and feeds are those that contain unique, fresh, compelling, content. So where do these prolific posters get their ideas? I talked to a handful of bloggers to determine where their inspiration originated for their content.

Not surprisingly, ideas for blog posts or RSS feed items originate or are influenced by other web content. The following are venues for finding your online muse:

1.Google News
Monitor Google News for keywords related to your industry. If you find a story you disagree with or wholeheartedly agree with write about it. Add your thoughts, and editorialize the content. This does not mean you should just repost Google news summaries. The value is not only in the news aggregation, but in the commentary that you provide. Tie news items to specific events, conditions, or the impact of specific news on the industry. Adding a view point or reference to a news article adds genuine value.

How to Get Ideas for RSS Feeds www.rss-specifications.com | 11/29/11 1:23 AM

RSS4English is an application to improve English skills by reading RSS feeds about topics you like, where and when you want!
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Social Strategists Beware! Your workload is going to increase! From 22 November Facebook will no longer allow the automatic import of Blog and RSS feeds into Profiles.

A long-used strategy by social networkers has been to link their blog posts and websites via RSS directly to their Facebook profiles. This meant that every time they put up a blog-post, it would automatically push the information onto Facebook, creating a note.

This allowed for great interaction with fans, followers and friends — building the all-important relationship with potential clients and readers.

According to Facebook, this feature has been disabled for Pages already on 30 September.

complete article www.rss-specifications.com | 11/24/11 1:21 AM

Variety of RSS scripts to manage your RSS feeds. www.rss-specifications.com | 11/24/11 1:21 AM

Podcasting Software Bundle allows for you to easily record, edit and publish podcasts!

Integrated support for iTunes. Includes audio recording software and software to easily build a podcast feed!

Includes both FeedForAll and RecordForAll software.

www.rss-specifications.com | 11/24/11 1:21 AM

Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed

As much as we tout Twitter for its conversational abilities — for its revolutionary capacity to create discursive, rather than simply distributive, relationships with news consumers — many major news organizations are still using the service as, pretty much, a vehicle for self-promotion. A new study, released today by Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, studied 13 news organizations, large and relatively small, from print, TV, and radio…and found that “mainstream news organizations primarily use Twitter to move information and push content to readers. For these organizations, Twitter functions as an RSS feed or headline service for news consumers, with links ideally driving traffic to the organizations website

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Facebook will be removing the ability to import content from your website or blog on November 22, 2011. The company wants everyone to post manually.

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This is a decent overview of building and using RSS feeds . www.rss-specifications.com | 11/14/11 4:00 PM

FeedForAll allows users to easily create, edit and publish RSS feeds. There is a built in wizard that walks new users through setting up RSS feeds. Additionally FeedForAll supports advanced features like iTunes support.
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Social media analytics platform Socialbakers has snapped up Social RSS, the most popular RSS reader application on Facebook.

Social RSS allows users to add blogs and other favourite RSS feeds to walls and tabs to user profiles or Facebook pages. www.rss-specifications.com | 11/8/11 1:27 AM

Google flipped virtual tables with its changes to Google Reader this week. Some of you like it, many of you hate it, and some people have even gone to the length of starting a petition demanding Google change it back. All of this got us wondering, now that Google Reader is different, will you keep using it? Or do you have another RSS newsreader that you either already prefer or plan to migrate to?

Best RSS Reader www.rss-specifications.com | 11/8/11 1:27 AM

According to this Kindle is the winner.

Eco Childs Play says:

We have tried out the Apple iPad and the Barnes and Noble NOOK eBook Reader .  If you are looking for a great eReader for your kids, the Kindle is my recommendation.

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WebTalks reads aloud your feeds in a female robotic voice, even when other sounds are running in the background—or, for more a useful scenario, when another app is running in the foreground. www.rss-specifications.com | 11/8/11 1:27 AM

The Brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist announced today that due to popular demand they created an RSS feed for their Brother, Give Us A Word daily devotion. The RSS feed will allow others churches, youth ministries, camps and Christian music groups to post it on their website.

Monastery RSS Feeds
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Ribbun is a new RSS feed submission software. www.rss-specifications.com | 10/24/11 1:26 PM

Many websites nowadays offer to send updates to the visitor either with the help of RSS feeds or email. Some websites on the other hand that you may find useful come without those options. If you want to stay up to date, you need to find a way to create custom email alerts or feeds to do so.

FeedBeater is an online service that can create RSS feeds or email alerts for any webpage on the Internet (that does not require login or is otherwise protected). www.rss-specifications.com | 10/24/11 1:26 PM

We have put a huge list of RSS Tools in a single page. This will help RSS users find tools that suit their needs. If you have an addition drop us an email.
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It is common for battles to result in some casualties, whether they be physical or digital. In the digital world, thankfully, these casualties are more metaphoric than tragic, but the effects are quite dire in their own right. In this particular case, the injured party is social media authenticity in both business and in the building of personal brands.

Some cynics might ask, was social media ever really authentic? To answer that question, try to recall Twitters early days as one small example. There was true community.

complete article www.rss-specifications.com | 10/18/11 1:26 AM

Google Inc. has made another acquisition that could help the search engine strengthen its social media-related offerings. SocialGrapple, a  start-up company that sells analytical services for Twitter, said this week that it has been acquired by Google.

Neither Google nor SocialGrapple said how much Google paid for the firm. www.rss-specifications.com | 10/18/11 1:26 AM

All of us start the day with every intention of completing a variety of tasks, but unfortunately many of us become distracted as the day moves on. Or even worse, we are tasked with crisis management, and at the end of the day we find that we have made little progress in whittling down the days planned tasks. As well intentioned as you may be, it seems to become a routine, and one that far too many of us fall into.

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There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. So once you've made the leap and created a feed, how do you tell your guests regarding the feed?

Tips for RSS Promotion www.rss-specifications.com | 10/5/11 1:18 AM

If you think social media is primarily good for reconnecting with long-lost friends from high school or stalking celebrities to find out what they had for breakfast, think again.

Now more than ever, M.B.A. students and applicants live and breathe through social media, a new online survey reveals. And that level of social media use is a good thing, considering the growing demand in the business world for employees with honed social media skills.

complete article www.rss-specifications.com | 10/4/11 1:23 AM

Although social marketing is a top priority and critical for future success, marketers struggle with ROI measurement of social campaigns, as a result, constraining or threatening all important future funding.

- Surveys report that even though ROI measurement is vital to success, that:

- Some 75% of B2B social marketers currently not measuring the ROI of social initiatives

- Almost two-thirds of companies 61% indicating their organizations are poor 34% or very poor   27% at measuring return on investment from social media www.rss-specifications.com | 10/4/11 1:23 AM

After the Arab Spring surprised the world with the power of technology to revolutionize political dissent, governments are racing to develop strategies to respond to, and even control, the new player in the political arena -- social media.

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Social networking is what some information technology academics consider to be a disruptive technology or having disruptive impact, rendering existing products, services and business models obsolete.

Although social media have not yet made any product, service or business model obsolete, the phenomenon is certainly challenging many norms, and its current and future impact is and will be profound on all aspects of life. In particular, social media are supplanting traditional media as news and entertainment outlets. A number of recent events, locally and internationally, have highlighted the possible future legal and political impact and the difficulty that society is having with this particular technology. www.rss-specifications.com | 9/27/11 1:18 AM

A persons Facebook page is a representation of how a person acts when he or she thinks nobody in authority is looking, said Jeannine Morber, owner of Morber Marketing Group. But, sometimes those people in authority are looking.

Thanks to social media websites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, employers can find out more about candidates online behavior.

complete article www.rss-specifications.com | 9/26/11 4:00 PM

SEO for a blog is different than SEO for most other websites, largely because of the social elements baked into blogging technology. SEO for blogs is less about buying links or tricking inadequate search technology. SEO for blogs is more focused on giving people something to talk about and creating something worthy of attention.

SEO for Blogs www.rss-specifications.com | 9/20/11 1:25 AM

Many of you are familiar with RSS feeds, which are a convenient way to subscribe to syndicated content from around the web. All this information is aggregated and delivered to a single location, such as Google Reader, for easier and more efficient consumption.

In Google+, keeping an RSS feed of someones public Stream can be quite useful.

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Easily record and edit audio files for podcasts with RecordForAll software. www.rss-specifications.com | 9/13/11 1:23 AM

Put Twitter Links in an RSS Feed with TweepFeed www.rss-specifications.com | 9/13/11 1:23 AM

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To claim that RSS is bad for you if you subscribe to too many feeds is absurd.

What is bad for you is letting a tool like RSS overwhelm you, take over your life if you will. I have gone away for 3 days, as Marco suggests, and come back to thousands of RSS items, I read them all in time and it never bothered me. 1

If it bothers you, then blaming the tool is not the solution to this problem.

complete article www.rss-specifications.com | 9/9/11 1:19 AM

A series of articles defending the use of RSS and its potential. www.rss-specifications.com | 9/8/11 4:00 PM