Ten RSS Hacks

Steve Rubel with Micro Persuasion wrote Here, for no reason at all, are 10 RSS power user tips that you can use to enhance your life. Some of these you might already know, others you may not.

1. Build Feeds for Your Favorite Writers
2. Got a Car? Subscribe to its RSS Feed
3. Merge Several RSS Feeds Into One, Then Stick it on Your Firefox Bar
4. Track New Audiobooks with RSS
5. Find Cool Stuff with a del.icio.us Inbox Feed
6. Build a Library of Search Feeds in a Heartbeat with gada.be
7. Track Wikipedia Revisions with RSS
8. Find New Desktop Wallpaper with Flickr
9. Subscribe to RSS Feeds in Gmail
10. Take a Break with RSS

Several of these are fantastic.

Weblogs Work blogged One of the first things we do with a new client is help them set up an RSS reader and fill it with relevant reads. What a great moment it is when the lightbulb appears overhead and they realize they can make their favorite Web pages come to them. (Take their info to go, as it were.)

That is exactly why I am so excited with RSS, and with Live Bookmarks in Firefox.