January
An article originally posted on louisgray.com
“There seems to be a trend lately of posts regarding RSS overload. A lot of people are complaining about being overwhelmed with their Google Reader, and some are even advising for you to stop using your RSS reader altogether. I say, hogwash. Do something about it and take back your Google Reader. Now is the time to reclaim it.”
Read the full article at www.louisgray.com
I fully agree with Louis Gray. RSS readers require organization. Many readers offer ways to filter feeds. Personally I use NetNewsWire (the stand-alone RSS application from Newsgator for Mac users) and I really like their Smart Lists, a way to filter RSS feeds based on lists of keywords that need to appear somewhere in the feed. FeedDemon (the Windows version from Newsgator) offers this feature too – they call them ‘watches’ –, like many others. Unfortunately, Google Reader doesn’t.
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October
An article originally posted on googleblog.blogspot.com
“Until now, alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over. Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible than ever.
Once you sign in to Google Alerts and create an alert, you can opt for feed delivery by clicking ‘Edit’ next to your alert on the ‘Manage Your Alerts’ page and changing your ‘Deliver to’ selection from ‘Email’ to ‘Feed’ (click on the image to see larger).”
Read the full article at googleblog.blogspot.com
If you’ve been wanting to monitor all websites, news, blogs, videos and groups indexed by Google, now is the time to get your Google alerts configured – RSS is up and running!
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October
An article originally posted on Search Engine Land
Katherine Boehret wrote, “In about a month, Google will begin delivering these alerts to users via feeds, as well as emails.”
Read the full article at searchengineland.com
This is a major enhancement from Google. Allowing people to subscribe to RSS feeds to monitor results is extremely useful.
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May
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's weblog
“Now, this is very useful. For pages that don’t have an RSS Page2RSS will basically create one for you. Simply type in the URL of the page that you’re interested in, grab the feed, add it into your favourite reader and you’re done.”
Read the full article at philbradley.typepad.com
It is a great way to monitor static pages.
Though there are many other monitoring tools available on the Web, this one doesn’t require any login, it works well, and it is just as simple as a click.
I found one limitation though: it doesn’t watch the page as regularly as it should. It only checks for updates every 4 hours (well, not so bad I assume). I thought that refreshing my feed would automatically generate an update from Page2RSS, but it is not the case…
So my recommendation: use it for pages where content is not changing too frequently.
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