Digg Without the Ron Paul Bollocks

September 6th, 2007, 9 Comments »

I’m a Canadian Digg user (and in a small minority, as you might expect). I have a fleeting interest in American politics, but I don’t give two depreciated American pennies about a second tier Republican who’s struck the fancy of a few wired libertarians.

Because of Paul’s popularity among Digg users, hilariously mundane Ron Paul stories frequently pollute Digg’s front page. I’ve had enough, so here’s an RSS feed for Digg’s popular stories that filters out all the Ron Paul-related silliness. If I knew how, I’d produce a GreaseMonkey script that did the same thing.

UPDATE: Sweet, I just found a GreaseMonkey script that does exactly that.

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How Do You Filter RSS Feeds?

March 20th, 2007, 8 Comments »

I recevied a question this morning that I thought I’d pass on. A non-geek wants to filter RSS feeds for certain terms. What’s your preferred tool for this? I’m aware of Feedshake, which I just used to create a feed of all Boing Boing posts that mention the word ‘pants’.

You could also use Yahoo Pipes to make something similar, though that’s not for the feint of heart. I’m sure there are some client-side options as well in tools like NewsGator, but I’m not familiar with them.

Feedshake looks viable, but what would you recommend to a Regular Human wanting to filter her RSS feeds?

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