BlogBridge: First Look

By C.K. Sample, III

For the most part, I get my RSS goodness through a combination of NetNewsWire and Bloglines, but a few features of BlogBridge discussed by David Weinberger over at Joho the Blog piqued my interest. Here's the really cool bit: "BlogBridge now lets you create 'smartfeeds,' feeds made of other feeds based on rules you specify. E.g., you could ask to see all the feeds you currently subscribe to that use a particular keyword. Or, you can have it fetch tagged feeds from the likes of del.icio.us, findory, flickr and technorati."

I like this idea of remixing feeds and am going to give BlogBridge a shot. . . . that is, if it ever loads. The program is all in Java (not good), and I am currently "Waiting for data..." from the BlogBridge site to complete the installation. I'm hoping it actually works, but I'm not overly optimistic at this point. I'll report back later this week, either way.

[via Joho the Blog] 

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