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How to Go from Joe User to RSS Badass
Long gone are the days of feebly visiting every website on your daily reading list, checking for new content. These days, all the kids seem to have their favorite RSS reader dialed in with all of their favorite blogs and newsfeeds, eating it up like it’s Thanksgiving dinner. But, dear friends, there’s more to effective RSS reading that just subscribing to every feed you come across and leaving it at that…
The purpose of this post is to give you a few tips that will magically transform you from a vanilla reader of RSS feeds into a veritable RSS ninja - including choice of reader, dealing with specific types of feeds and categorization. Trust me, you don’t want to miss this one…
Get Your GTD Fix with The Ultimate GTD Index
The benevolent proprietor of one of my new favorite GTD blogs has put together a fantastic site he dubs ‘The Ultimate GTD Index‘. Basically, it’s all the GTD-related blog posts and bookmarks from around the web in one convenient location. He was even kind enough to include my little blog among the ranks!
Do yourself a favor and check it out - and judging by the number of del.icio.us users who have bookmarked it, most of you already have 
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How to Use Firefox Live Bookmarks for RSS Feed “Probation”
Of all the Web 2.0-ish innovations to come down the pike in the last couple of years, RSS seems to be the most pervasive. New readers (both web- and client-based) are cropping up all over the map and just about every site on the Internet (including this one) has some sort of syndicated content that you can read elsewhere at your convenience. It’s a revolutionary idea, to be sure.
But as an ancient Chinese philosopher once said, “You really can subscribe to too many RSS feeds, grasshopper”. I know that for me, every couple of months I’ll go on a subscribing rampage. Every site I read will get tossed haphazardly into my feed reader (whether I really found the content interesting or not), only to get sifted out later during the inevitable reader clean-up that follows such a spree. I can’t imagine I’m the only person that has this problem, and I think I’ve got a pretty slick solution…
