Hacking_RSS

Hacking RSS: Filtering and Processing Obscene Amounts of Information #hackingRR Dawn Foster Intel Community Manager for MeeGo dawn@fastwonder.com Part of Mind Amplifiers - Rheingold University First Course syllabus

Information overload is less about having too much information and more about not having the right tools and techniques to filter and process information to find hte pieces that are most relevant for you. There are techniques for looing at RSS in completely different light. The default RSS feeds generated by your favorite log or website are just a starting point waiting to be hacked and manipulated to serve your needs. Hack those feeds to find only the most intersting posts. Combine tools like Yahoo Pipes, BackTweets, and PostRank and more with some simple API calls to be able to find what I need while automatically disgarding the rest. You start with one or more RSS feeds and then feed those results into other services to gather more information that can be used to further filter or process the results.
 * make better use of RSS reader to [|prioritze feeds and discover new information]
 * Filtering and filtering tools, including an example of using Yahoo Pipes to combine feeds and filter on relevant keywords
 * using PostRank t find only the best posts for a set of blogs and filter those top posts for relelvant keywords
 * Reformatting and modifying RSS feeds using Yahoo Pipes to generate feeds that display more relevant information than a default feed
 * Simple uses of Web APIs to gather more information and reat new RSS feeds based ont he data you want to see with an example that combines Twitter and BackTweets API data with filters in Yahoo Pipes
 * Automating and consolidating your vanity serivces
 * Tips for how you should/should not use all of these tools an techniques