Use PostRank for Customized Feeds

On Monday I mentioned the usefulness of using a feedreader to collect information and stay up-to-date. What I did not mention was a web service, PostRank, that provides some very handy advanced features for feeds that may be of interest.

In addition to a whole set of wonderful free services for bloggers, PostRank allows blog readers to create customized feeds just for them. Imagine this situation: you’ve been reading my blog for awhile now and have decided that you really only care about the posts that are about Greek. Dropbox? Not interested. You just want the Greek posts. PageRank is there to help you out!

How does it work? Take a look at the “Top Posts” section in the sidebar of this blog. Type in “Greek” in the search box. That should result in a filtered list of “Top Posts” about Greek on this site. You can then click on the little RSS-like icon to subscribe to only those posts that match your search query.

What if the blog you want to filter isn’t as cool as Nerdlets.org and does not have the PostRank widget on its site? In that case, just go to postrank.com. Let’s say you only want Justin Taylor’s reflections on books. Enter the web-address of the Justin Taylor’s blog (http://theologica.blogspot.com/) in the search box. This will bring you to a page with that blog’s top posts, along with the Top Posts widget. Just enter your filter into the search box, click on the subscribe button, and you’re done!

This is a great way to keep your feedreader tidy. If you only like certain topics that a site is given to cover, use PostRank to filter out the chaff!

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