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By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:41:26 +0000

Pipe your feeds through FeedRinse (http://feedrinse.com/) or similar. For instance, I strip all my tech feeds of anything with “game”, “mac” or “iphone” in the title; and my BBC West Midlands traffic news feed of anything which does not have “Birmingham” in the title.

By: dom

dom — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:38:19 +0000

I feel your pain. I have accidentally been avoiding my Google Reader items since last week and had 329 earlier. Having a blitz now. Lucky a lot of mine were reposts of iPhone news from about 4 different sources.
Hope things get neater soon.
Have you thought about reading your posts online as you travel to work? Better than the Metro.

By: hellraiser.rishi

hellraiser.rishi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:48:59 +0000

Good to see people find that useful…I’ve been using it for more than 4 days and am pretty much impressed…

@paulbradshaw I don’t think it just uses inbound links to rank posts….I believe it has a more sophisticated system for ranking…Though I am not pretty sure…But I’ve found many posts just a few minutes old being ranked above 5!!! i think it also considers the reputation and the number of posts produced by the blog….

By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:09:12 +0000

@hellraiser thanks for that plugin – looks useful. I briefly used an RSS reader which you could set to only display posts with a certain no. of inbound links – Tailrank. I stopped using it because you ended up seeing stuff only after everyone else had and had linked to it.

Although I have a horrendous no. of unread feeds, I’m not sure I’d whittle it down to the top 50, because then I’d be reading what everyone else is. I’ve started checking Google Reader on my mobile every morning which means I just see the most recent from a relatively diverse set of blogs.

PS: I would add ReadWriteWeb to the tech ones – for relevant posts like this: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rss_filter_prod.php

By: joannageary

joannageary — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:15:33 +0000

Hi Jeff – will do, I hadn’t even thought of that!

dp: i like that idea. Oddly it’s something I do with my emails but never thought about with Google Reader. Thanks!

Hellraiser: off to check out the link right now. Thanks!

By: hellraiser.rishi

hellraiser.rishi — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:32:20 +0000

Hi guys…I have been using Google Reader for almost a week now…and to be honest mine was messier than you….I got around 1600+ unread posts after 3 days!!!
But now I found this…
http://gr.aiderss.com/
Its a cool ranking system that allows us to filter and show posts above some threshold…I has a FF extension as well as a greasemonkey script…I hope this solves your problem….

By: dp

dp — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:16:16 +0000

I don’t have quite this issue, but I think I’d auto-expire everything older than a day, then do periodic searches for a given topic. I run several automated keyword searches every day, and browse the results for things that stand out.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:42:15 +0000

When you’re done, please publish an OPML file of the results so others of us can import it and get our acts together.

By: joannageary

joannageary — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:42:43 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the great advice – I think you are quickly becoming Birmingham blogosphere’s organisation guru!

And when I’ve figured out my top five journalism blogs I shall of course post them to 5alist.