Never without my RSS...

This blogging phenomenon is really becoming insane. I hardly now spend a day without posting something on a blog (the ones I operate or others), and cruise through the more than 100 feeds in my blogroll (check the list of the left sidebar).

As a consequence, my different email inboxes are getting packed with newsletters from many different sources. I'll now start unsubscribing from them one by one and subscribe to their relevant RSS feed. If they don't support RSS yet, they really should. My options hence are to redirect them to:
- my gmail account (hey 1Gb for newsletters is good, I can archive them there for a long while)
- turn them into an RSS feed using this great tool: myRSS (free!!!). Their site is self-explanatory : "myRSS enables anyone to build custom RSS channels for virtually any news site they desire. myRSS requires no programming experience, is completely automated and all channels are available for free." (via miss-information.net)

Remember: RSS feeds allows you to:
- quicly centralize the source feeds of information
- strip them from all irrelevant data such as fancy page outlines and advertising (hey... sorry about those on my blog: just testing them out at the moment, I'll reduce them in a while)
- archive data you like.

Update: I coudn't find the RSS/XML feeds for instance on the Journal du Net (of all online publications, it should really have one). No problem, a quick detour by myRSS, and here is the JdN RSS feed, that I just added to my Bloglines list. Works great (check it on the left side bar!).

Uodate 2: some sites are really getting it. Check how Variety (the reference paper in Hollywood) is helping iits users keep track of breanking news. Also the NY Times and The Register.

Did I tell you RSS are my initials ? I guess so...