RSS filters anyone?

Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb wrote an interesting post,6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds, that reviews several RSS filters available. There are several ways to filter an RSS feed and Catone focuses on the filters that does it via keywords.

As he explains:

There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Reader’s shared items. We’ve also taken a look in the past at automatic filters such as Feedhub (our coverage) which learns from your behavior to suggest posts, or AideRSS (our coverage and here), which uses outside metrics to determine which items in an RSS feed are the “best.” For the purpose of this post, however, we’ll focus on services that let you filter by keyword. [Source]

It is an interesting read. Check it out. According to Catone the best keyword filter seems to be Feed Rinse.

But wait …

The comments to this post is interesting and at at one points the important question why does the major or big feed reader company have not yet included a filtering feature in their readers.

An interesting and crucial thought. I particular the top feed readers, whether they be desktop based or online-based.