Feeding the Feed

I think purposely looking for feeds can be overwhelming. Yes there is tons of stuff out there you can subscribe to but you can over do it. The better way is to be aware that feeds exist and when you come across something useful in your everyday pursuits you check to see if there is a feed available. That way you limit your feeds to the ones that are actually useful to you. They are handy if you want to be able to group and quickly skim work-related blogs for relevant information. But you can also get sucked into a black hole of trivia.
Syndic8 looks boring but utilitarian. The random suggestions on the main page are interesting, though, as are the top fives. I'm not sure I approve of them posting who has just registered, however. Privacy issues. Except some are obviously fake names. Hey! The Woodburn Public Library Teen Reads is one of the five most viewed feeds. Who would have thought? What is that library doing right to promore their RSS feed? Clicking on the link for that feed in Syndic8 takes you to a statistics page that has a preview and various options to grab the feed. In fact there are other links to all sorts of other mysterious technical statistics that are fairly unintelligible to most people. Who is it that reads this stuff? Yes, Syndic8 gets my vote for the most geeky of the feed finder sites. I added a science fiction podcast blog to my Bloglines. I also found a bunch of links when I did a search of children's books. Guess which library turned up again. Overall, I didn't have much luck searching most of my subjects. Browsing worked better.

I Made a Feedster Widget

Look in the right-hand column.
Now I can get all the latest news and posts about ZOMBIES!
I've added a search bar, though, so you can search other subjects if you want.

[NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: It's now January, 2008 and Feedster is DEAD. I'm looking for another site that will make a news widget.]

[ANOTHER NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: I found another way to make a news feed, that's why you see something different on the right]

Here's one of my favorite things I've found about Zombies.
A Zombie Pub Crawl.
Well, there's the link, but I'm trying to upload the video to my blog, too. It seems to have worked but I wonder if 24 megs are too big for my blog. How many megs to I get, anyway? Time to check.