Subscribing to RSS feeds is a great way to keep up with lots of timely news and blog postings, of course, but as we all know, it’s easy to suffer from RSS Overload, and it can be hard to know where to find the best feeds on a particular topic.

I recently came across a post that caught my eye that presents an interesting solution for serious researchers and for enterprise use of feeds that can help with this:

Bill Ives, who writes on the excellent FASTForward blog is one of my trusted sources in the area of knowledge management and sharing information in the enterprise. He recently posted a very interesting blurb on a future of work blog, called the AppGap about an RSS discovery tool, titled BlogBridge Feed Libraries for Enterprise 2.0

There Ives discusses BlogBridge Feed Libraries, which he says “are designed to help companies provide guidance to their employees on where the useful content is located and then make it easy to subscribe to it.” One of the key features of BlogBridge Feed Libraries are its “Expert Guides”, which, according to that site “is simply a collection of feeds around a specific topic that have been selected by someone who has real expertise in that area.” You can find them under BlogBridge’s “Topic Guides” here:

For instance, for business related topics, there are expert guides about advertising, branding, entrepreneurship, financial markets, learning/collaboration, and many others. Bill Ives, in fact, was the creator of a knowledge management guide.

Ives noted that not only is this a useful way to find a “best of” collection of feeds on a particular topic, but it also can be used inside the enterprise, and edited and customized to the needs of the department and staff’s own information needs.

This all sounds promising to me, and I plan on covering BlogBridge in some depth in a future issue of The Information Advisor.

My blogging has been infrequent the last few weeks as I crank towards a book deadline and prepare for my annual summer sojourn to Prince Edward Island.…but please be assured that you’ll find more blog posts here shortly!

Well, while I’m here so to speak, I thought it might be worth mentioning a recent discovery: if you track comments on consumer generated video (eg YouTube, etc), I recently found out that an excellent way to do advanced keyword tracking of the title and description of a wide selection of consumer generated videos can be performed on the excellent audio video search site Blinkx



There are some particularly useful and valuable features too for creating really effective keyword feeds on Blinkx. For one, you can use an advanced search option to create more precise searches, using phrases, “all the words” and a “without the words” semi-Boolean search.

Furthermore, you can even limit the videos in your search to only the consumer generated ones if you so wish, which Blinkx calls the “Viral and Garage” videos. See the above screen shots for examples of how I set up an RSS feed on Blinkx to alert me to any “viral and garage” videos (which includes YouTube, as well as other popular consumer generated video sites) that contained the word “freegan”