Matt Cutts would like a "best of" solution for RSS–aideRSS has that ready for you now
March 4, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
Matt Cutts made his 2008 predictions and wants a “best of” RSS solution:
An RSS startup will add the ability to take a normal RSS blog feed and produce a “best of” feed that picks only the most popular/controversial/interesting items. You will be able to say (for example) “I want only about three Valleywag posts per day. Pick the best ones for me.” This new offering will cause some controversy across the blogosphere about fair use and copyright. But most bloggers will ultimately decide that they’d rather have the extra “lazy readers” than not have them at all. Source: My 2008 predictions
Matt wait no longer…aideRSS is your solution and, actually, you’re wrong. The best of feeds are proving to be very popular with readers. I’ve done them for conference coverage and Marshall Kirkpatrick has as well, both were well received.
I don’t know how many times I have sung aideRSS’ praises (hmm I’m wearing a shirt from them right now), but it is a huge time saver for me.
My Best of Canadian feed (which needs another refresh I think) is a great slice of what Canadian’s are saying online. Oh and Matt, here’s your “best of” feed from your blog.
Best of Canadian feed does need another update.. though here’s an interesting solution:
Google Blog Search for “site:*.ca”, grab the resulting feed and run _that_ through AideRSS. Just make sure to grab a large enough sample (lets say 100 instead of default 10) because there’s a _lot_ (6.5 million) blog posts on Canadian domains.
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=site:*.ca&ie=utf-8&num=100&output=rss
Tony that’s a great idea. Generally what I do is export just my Canadian feeds to OPML and send off to the folks at aideRSS.