Yes I’m on quite the RSS kick — I’ve been fiddling around a lot with feeds lately. But there’s so much more I want to do…
1. check out ways to create feeds from non-feed bearing websites (e.g. Feedity, Dapper) — like most web offerings from the Government of Canada.
2. experiment with feed filtering à la FeedRinse or Blastfeed – to try out a more focussed feed reading experience – although I do like the serendipitous discoveries I make when not extracting a signal from the noise…
3. (while still on the feed filtering tip) get my head around AideRSS – I gotta admit I do not grok. Somehow it thinks that this post of mine is my best according to their “PostRank” formula.
4. mix and blend feeds together with things like RSS Mixer or RSS Mix or FEEDcombine – I guess this would be sort of the inverse approach (from filtering) to managing my feeds – simply push the most recent content from all my feeds to the top.
5. while I’m at filtering and mixing, I might as well try fiddling with Yahoo! Pipes, which would appear to be the ultimate for this sort of stuff.
6. Install Snackr, just so that I can see the news ticker thing in action across the bottom of my desktop. Of course I want my screen to look like CNN or CBC Newsworld.
7. Play around with more online feed reader services – as if Bloglines, Google Reader and Netvibes are not enough, now I wanna check out the new breed (esp a “visual feed reader” like Voyage).
8. check out feed writer software like this app from Mirabyte.
9. Work my way through this crazy huge list of 100 or so RSS resources and hacks.
What's a spaghetti test?
Hmm, something was certainly looking off with your feed (comment count issue, I think), but I think things are fixed now: http://www.aiderss.com/all/spaghettitesting.wordpress.com/ – the “Types Not Dead!” post is now a 3, so there are certainly some ranked higher.
Let me know if any other stats still look amiss.
Sorry for the confusing statistics. We ran diagnostics on your feed and found that there was a problem introduced at some point in July. We’ve fixed to root cause and have fixed up the data for your feed.
You should be able to see an improvment – and should even be more “grokable”.
http://www.aiderss.com/all/spaghettitesting.wordpress.com/
thanks Jim. The new data looks more reasonable now – and yes I will be making further attempts to grok…
Great resources here, thanks. I have been looking into this stuff mysewlf lately – in particular how to help others in UK government harness the power of rss to tune into online conversations. Your To Do list is now my to do list.