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FeedRinse - clean up your subscribed feeds
by Jason Clarke Mar 17th 2007
There has been a lot of talk about Yahoo!'s new Pipes service, and for good reason. Pipes allows you to mix and match RSS feeds and make something that suits a very specific purpose. But as much as Pipes was made for the non-developers out there, the barrier to entry is still a tad high for some of us. What about the rest of us that need to massage an RSS feed a little bit, but for whom Pipes is not a good answer?If you're trying to scrub a feed and filter it down in some manner, have a look at FeedRinse. This free web based service will let you import RSS feeds, set up some filtering rules, and it will spit out new feeds that you can subscribe to that give you your data after the filtering rules have been applied.
For example, for you TechCrunch might be Mike Arrington only. So now you can have an Arrington-only TechCrunch feed. Or maybe you really like Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing - now you can subscribe just to Cory.
Or maybe you love Download Squad, but can't stand my posts. FeedRinse can help you there, too. Just set up your feed to block all posts where the author is Jason Clarke, and you're set to go.
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