Info Overload

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on March 5, 2004 Comments (0)

Dare Obansajo is the program manager for the Microsoft WebData XML team, and also the developer of RSS Bandit, a free RSS aggregator.

This post - Different Ways of Dealing with RSS Information Overload - discusses strategies for dealing with RSS feed overload. Basically, it boils down to intelligent searching - either setup search folders within your aggregator, or subscribe to Feedster searches.

I do both, even though I'm not really at the many hundreds subscription level that seems to precipitate this crisis, it's still a very useful way to ensure that I'm not missing posts that I'm really interested in.

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