Monday, May 01, 2006

Finding new feeds to follow

There are many ways to find new content and publishers to subscribe to, such as the search engines. FeedBlitz has a great way to recommend new content to you, and it's called FeedAdvisor. Think of it as a service that says "Other readers subscribing to your content are also subscribing to...." - we call it the Subscription Web. It's based on the (anonymous) patterns FeedBlitz sees in the subscriber database, and uses these patterns to flag feeds for you to explore, since people like you seem to like them as well. Up to three are presented to you in each email.

You can use the binoculars to preview the feed, the green check mark to subscribe to it, or the red X to prevent that result from being shown to you (making room for a new one). You can also start a search at www.FeedAdvisor.com and hop around the subscription web by seeing all the related feeds (click the blue FeedAdvisor icon) and signing up for the ones you like. Try it - it's really pretty cool!