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Nuts! Filtering RSS feeds is critical. Especially if you want to take the resulting feed and republish it via Javascript. I’ve been trying to do this in a robust way for years.

In my case, I want to allow students to be able to use their own blogs, but only pass on whatever content is relevant to aggregated courseblogs. So they can write about a post about binge drinking or Wii, and then a post about Ezra Pound’s Cantos, and the content gets syndicated and republished in the right places more or less automatically. The students control their own spaces, not the school.

This is another service, I can’t assess it one way or the other - I last tested it a long time ago:

http://feedrinse.com/

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Thanks for the tips! Sorry I had to leave early…

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I kid! I kid!

Brian: you are of course right that RSS remixing is an excellent thing. But at this point, I don’t know of anyone (maybe I travel in small social circles) who is both non-geeky and uses feeds.

Actively filtering and aggregating feeds is, at this point in time, a definitively geeky activity.

This post has been useful to me, as I have long been looking for a way to publish an easily accessible “OmniRyan” feed for my various feed-monitored online activities.

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I would like to suggest a great new site that organizes your RSS feeds.
It employs a bayesian filter for RSS feeds where you can train the filter what you like and
what you don’t like. It’s free, try it at http://www.filteredrss.com.

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