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Okay I'm trying to get with this whole [radical transparency][1] thing we're pushing here at Wired so I thought I'd give you a heads up on a story I've been researching.
A couple weeks back, around the beginning of the new year, the mainstream media got caught up in series of stories about how RSS would be a breakthrough technology of 2007. RSS savvy Monkey Bites readers might yawn when Reuters [tries to explain][2] a six year old technology to the masses, but we thought maybe now would be a good time to see how "power users" are utilizing RSS.
I've been digging around the web for technologies and services that allow you to do more with your RSS feeds.
So far I've been looking at a variety of services that do RSS via SMS with a particular emphasis on filtering so only the most important things get sent to your phone. I'm familiar with [Zaptxt][3] and Yahoo's "Alerts" which [offers something similar][4], but if you prefer others let me know.
I've also been playing with Google Reader's new "Trends" analytics tool, which can tell you a lot about your reading habits, but I'm still not sure if it's all that useful.
I'm currently enamored with the idea of archiving meaningful feeds via email and I've been testing [RSSFwd][5] and [RMail][6] which both offer feeds delivered to your email account. But so far I haven't found a way to do exactly what I want, which is to have only items I've flagged sent to my email account.
This weeks Tutorial 'o the Day theme will be RSS power tips and at some point this may develop into a a full article, but in the mean time let's hear what you think. While the rest of the world is just getting up to speed, chances are Monkey Bites readers are already pushing the envelope, so let me know what your favorite RSS tips are in the comments below.
[1]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/12/what_would_radi_1.html "What Would Radical Transparency Mean For Wired?"
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-01-02T053910Z_01_N29192014_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml&WTmodLoc=InternetNewsHome_C2_internetNews-4 "Untangle the World Wide Web with RSS"
[3]: http://zaptxt.com/home/ "Zaptxt"
[4]: https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.intl=us&.src=ntfy&.done=http%3A%2F%2Falerts.yahoo.com%2Fmain.php%3Fview%3Dblogs "Yahoo Alerts"
[5]: http://rssfwd.com/ "RSSfwd"
[6]: http://www.r-mail.org/ "RMail"
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