Do you subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds from your favorite sites (you can subscribe to this site's feed right here)? RSS is a wonderful innovation that enables us to get the content we want from virtually any site on the Web, delivered straight to our feed reader of choice. However, it's easy to get overloaded with the glut of information that comes our way. That's where FeedScrub comes in.
FeedScrub is a free utility that acts as a spam filter for your RSS feeds. Basically, you tell FeedScrub what you like and don't like, and it will filter your feeds accordingly. For example, say you have a lot of feeds from sites about quilting, but you don't want to read anything about the log cabin pattern. You can instruct FeedScrub to filter out the phrase "log cabin" and voila! No more posts with that content. Conversely, perhaps there's a site that produces a ton of content, but you're really only interested in one topic. Rather than constantly having to scroll through stuff you don't want to read from that site, you can just tell FeedScrub to only let in content that is about your preferred topic - information overload averted.
FeedScrub is limited to a few users right now while they're working out the kinks, but About Web Search readers can get in now with this invite code: about. It's an extremely effective way to tailor your RSS feeds to your unique preferences, quickly and easily.
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