A Feed Is Born

More than one way to tag an RSS Feed

by Juned on January 17th, 2008

The actual phrase is there is more than one way to skin a cat. People who study word and phrase origins have several explanations on the origins of this phrase - the explanation ranges from preparation of a catfish; something to do with gymnastics and exercises; and of course the actual removal of the hide from a cat. But that is not the point of this post. I just finished reading a post by my friend Eugene of VAES9 titled: Organize Your Feed Subscriptions by Priority, Not by Topic. And Eugene makes a compelling case for adopting a Priority scheme in organizing one’s feeds.

And it seems very productive. Furthermore, it seems very practical in terms of speed.

But I am an old dog used set in my ways. So I will probably leave Eugene to his own devices. It works for him. In my case I read feeds two ways I dash and I walk. There are feeds that I like reading as soon as possible and there are feeds that I read slowly. Fortunately for me, I can do two things:

1) One I can place my feed in different feed readers: In Google, One can place one’s feed in Google Reader and also in the pages of IGoogle itself. In fact, in several tabs.

2) More importantly. There are feed readers like Google Reader that allows one to put the feed in more than one folder. This is done through the Feed Settings. In other words you can tag your feed via priority and via subject.

I like the second one because you can put the same feed in different folders or tag them different ways. It can be by subject, priority, author, and even by geography. So at any point one can read one’s feed collection anyway you want it.

Just like a any collection in a library. One’s feed collection is a library of sorts I guess and this information cat can be skinned in more ways than one. Depending on one’s needs.

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