Feeds feeds feeds

Feeds feeds feeds

Never thought much about feeds as a big opportunity, but guess what. They are.

My blogging software creates a "feed" (RSS XML that shows you the items/headlines). I have several "blogs" and they all do it: Drwn, Yahoo 360, LICNYC, and even some minor "sideblogs" that I have on this page here like that list or the Drownout Ideas list.

And then there are all those other things leaving feed trails like my del.icio.us, Yahoo Myweb, Yahoo search, Amazon wish list.

All those feeds, unformatted, hard to read, hard to do anything. Look at the feed for Drwn.

So Feedburner really seems to do something cool. For one it makes that horrible xml page more readable and usable -- adding links to "Add to My Yahoo" etc etc.

Plus you can plug in ads, create HTML dumps, format the output, intermix multiple feeds (like layer your Flickr images into your Yahoo blog into your Myweb linktrail). It's pretty neat.

And then there are all these rad readers, beyond My Yahoo which I still like: most notably Live.com and start.com but also Google Reader and their start page.