Searching for RSS good and bad

Feedster was recreating itself and was unavailable.. I was particularly interested in searching for podcasts

The Search tools for finding news feeds by topic and currency are cool. They can be an alternative to using Google, since you don’t get all the Amazon, and other results trying to sell you something. I even found a sidebar in Tagalog in a result from Topix.net.

I pursued one of the topics found yesterday in the BBC feed (Terry Pratchett’s Alzheimer’s). Virtually the identical article was in a number of places. A couple of these were blogs on Topix.net, which I don’t understand (one was a “news” blog—I guess like the columnists in the Pilot, but one seemed to be an ordinary person’s blog). This was a fairly discrete topic, there weren’t many opportunities for additional information, but it was interesting to see how many places picked up the story

ONE interesting aspect of Topix.net was the graph at the top. You can click on the graph to find feeds about your topic in earlier months.

Unfortunately, the RSS feed buttons I found gave me the XML page; I’ll have to go back and review how to add these to my google reader account.

Syndic.8com seems harder to use, it seems organized by category, and that’s all. In the Podcast area I also found some that, by title and/or description, may be porn feeds. I didn’t investigate!