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For some reason i though that title was quite funny…<\/p>\n

I was a bit of a late comer to RSS. It was one of those buzz words i’d heard lots about but wasn’t really sure about what it could do for me. Then one quiet afternoon i looked into it a little more, subscribed to Newsgator<\/a> and was hooked!<\/p>\n

Since i read a lot of blogs RSS is such a no-brainer now. If not preaching to the converted an few nice simple explanations of RSS are:<\/p>\n

A non technical explaination of RSS<\/a><\/p>\n

How to explain RSS the Oprah way<\/a><\/p>\n

To begin with i loved that i could get at my Newgator feeds from anywhere but eventually i needed something with a bit more oomph<\/p>\n

I tried one or two different readers and i’m currently using RSS Bandit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RSS Bandit is easy to use. Has a built in web browser which is a nice touch and also has the ability to use “remote storage”. This means i can upload my feeds to some location (currently I’m using a SharePoint site via WebDav) and when i get home i can download them and carry on where i left off. Plus you can use XSLT to change the style of the post which is pretty cool<\/p>\n

Only downside is that it uses a little too much memory for my liking and some feeds it doesn’t handle too well<\/p>\n

I’ve seen the RSS features in the Outlook 2007 beta and i’m quite excited about using that properly but i’m waiting for the finished product as i follow the “don’t use beta software on production machines” mantra and i mainly reed my feeds on my PC in the office<\/p>\n

I’ve digressed a little from why i started this post!<\/p>\n

Ed Bott blogged<\/a> about tidying up his feed list after inspiration from Adrian<\/a><\/p>\n

Adrian lost 40 blogs from his 950(!) feeds and Ed dropped 10 from his 225 feeds<\/p>\n

I don’t quite have that many feeds. (I’m at 79 ) but i currently have 1400 unread posts! Part of the problem i have is that i subscribe to a blog based on one post i have read. Then after a couple more posts i realise that i’m not that interested in anything else that blog is talking about but don’t delete it because something else might come up in the future! Rubbish!<\/p>\n

There are certain blogs in list that i browse straight to and they never have an unread count so i’m going to move all these into a new category (favourite or something) and then start culling the crap and keep the things i like to check but don’t read on regular basis (e.g I’m subscribed to the Community Submitted Scripts Center)<\/p>\n

I’ll post again when to see how much i’ve removed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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