After you have an RSS feed reader and know how to subscribe to RSS feeds, how
do you find feeds? There are a number of ways to find RSS feeds on the
Internet after you have exhausted Search Engines and Directories.
RSS Reading Lists
Popular Blogs
Preset RSS reading lists in RSS Feed Readers
Ego RSS Feeds using Google News
Yahoo Groups
Personal web surfing
Other
Detail
This is a random set of opportunities to find RSS Feeds on the Internet in
addition to Search and Directories.
RSS Reading Lists
Reading Lists
When you subscribe to a number of RSS Feeds, the list of RSS feeds is
typically stored in a OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) file, which is
another type of XML file. This OPML file is your reading list. Sometimes
bloggers will refer to "my OPML" to mean the list of RSS feeds they subscribe to
and read.
OPML RSS reading lists provide interesting options.
It allows us to switch RSS feed readers by exporting the OPML reading
list from one reader and importing the reading list to another RSS feed
reader.
An OPML file can be exported / imported to someone else, so that you can
share your RSS reading list with another.
An instructor could prepare an OPML file with an RSS reading list for a
class.
OPML files on different topics could be prepared so that one could
subscribe to a set of RSS feeds at one time.
Popular blogs.
The following services summarize relevant, interesting, or popular blogs and
feeds. These services publish interesting or popular blog posts from a
wide range of blogs. Following these services will point to interesting
individual blogs that have RSS feeds.
Memeorandum searches political blogs and combines blog posts on specific
topics in a website and an RSS Feed. It is auto-updated every 5 minutes, and
uncovers relevant items from thousands of news sites and blogs. There is also an
RSS feed. Watching this website will reveal interesting political blogs
with RSS feeds.
Technorati scours the web to see what people are talking about right now.
Preset RSS reading lists in RSS Feed Readers
When you download FeedDemon, it comes preset with a number of RSS Feeds.
There are popular feeds in various categories, so one gets a jump start with a
set of RSS Feeds.
IntraVnews and other RSS readers
provide a default set of RSS Feeds to get one started.
Ego RSS Feeds
You can create the ultimate personal RSS feed by doing the following.
Conduct a search of Google News for your own name or your company name.
Click the "RSS" hyperlink.
Save the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader.
Every time a news article with your name or company name appears in Google
News, the feed in your RSS reader will automatically update.
Ego Searches and RSS - Article with various Search Engines that can be
used to do ego searches to create RSS feeds.
Yahoo Groups
Yahoo Groups now provides direct RSS feeds natively. If your preferred Yahoo
Group is set for open, public viewing of the message archives, then you need
only to add the extension "messages?rss=1" to the complete URL and you have a
full RSS feed for that Yahoo Group.
Reading Lists
