As I have written before, BlogBridge is my RSS aggregator. It is free and has some great features (disclaimer, I have no business connection with them, just a happy user). BlogBridge allows you to create guides (essentially reading lists of favorite RSS feeds on a topic). This allows you to categorize your RSS feeds and group them into more useful and usable portions. This is something that I recently wrote that del.icio.us needs to do with their tags. So I have guides, subsets of my RSS feeds, on the following topics: blogging, food, knowledge management, web 2.0, collaboration, and innovation. Each guide has my favorite blogs on the topic in a manageable format. If a guide gets to big, I can break it into logical sections through new guides.
Building on the topical guide concept, BlogBridge also offers reading lists complied by experts on a topic. You can select any of these reading lists and have them easily imported into your Blogbridge reader as a guide. So, for example, I can take the marketing technology reading list and make it a guide on marketing technology, within my BlogBridge reader. I can also have it update automatically whenever the expert on marketing technology changes her guide. I did this, in fact, in less than two minutes as I wrote this post. I also added marketing and best food blogs that brings through some great photos into the reader. There are many reading lists. I created the one on knowledge management. My friend Kathleen Gilroy did the one on Learning and Collaboration, Francois Gossieaux did the marketing one, and Lynette Chandler did the marketing technology reading list. This is a very helpful way to filter the web’s content.
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