It takes a vacation to realize how many rss entries I get in a day. It isn’t the volume of posts that gets me, it’s the volume of posts that I am totally uninterested in. I assume many of you are in the same boat.
If there are any innovators out there, here’s an idea. Set up a service that allows a visitor to run rss subscriptions through a filter that omits or includes posts by tags, author, site, etc. Maybe even add a way to optionally pass my incoming feeds through a human editor (wishful thinking, I know). When it’s done, let me know. I’ll possy up and assume the role of fast follower.
Okay, one more Sangria, and then it’s time to see if that’s really a horse we keep hearing down on the beach.
Update: it’s probably worth noting that we released Feed Rinse into the wild shortly after writing this - we didn’t have the patience to follow.
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