David.R.Gilson

Feed Rinse

Nov 16

Reviews David 2 Comments
feed rinse, filter, keyword, RSS, Twitter

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Setting up a filter in Feed Rinse.

I came across a great web service last month called, Feed Rinse. The idea behind Feed Rinse is to apply keyword filters to an RSS feed, and return you a new feed URL, in which the content has been rinsed clean of all the stuff you don’t want to see.

This is handy if you subscribe to something that is particularly noisy. In my case, I found it useful for two Twitter users. I had followed them because they said really interesting things that I wanted to read, but, they were awful for doing loads of tweets at the same time, with lists of other Twitter users they wanted to thank for retweeting them. This was ruining my Twitter time-line.

By using Feed Rinse, I was able to add the RSS feed of each user, and apply the filters so I could block out all the content I wanted to read. Now, rather than following them on Twitter, I read them in my newsfeed reader, via the feeds Feed Rinse.