Feedbeans

Knowledge Management Feedbean

Dave — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:27:17 +0000

The second feedbean released is that for knowledge management related websites.

To use the feedbean, you must first download it. Right click here, and choose ‘Save Link’ or ‘Save Target As’. Save the feedbean on your desktop, or another easily accessible location on your computer. Next, go to your feed reader and find the option to ‘Import’ subscriptions. Click on this, and in the resulting dialogue box, choose the feedbean file you just downloaded. Once you have imported the feedbean, you can refresh your feed reader and all the RSS feeds should be active!

If you have any problems with this feedbean or aren’t sure what to do, then please consult the Q & A page, leave a comment, or email dave@feedbeans.com.

The feeds contained within this feedbean are:

If you have any suggestions for additional feeds for this feedbean, please leave them in the comments. Do, however, remember that these are introductory feeds and are not necessarily intended to be comprehensive lists.

Feedbeans on Twitter

Dave — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:36:58 +0000

I have created an account on Twitter for Feedbeans. Everytime a new feedbean is posted, I’ll update all the twitter followers.

Don’t worry though, standard, boring blogs posts like this one won’t make it…

UK News Feedbean

Dave — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:35:47 +0000

The first feedbean available here is that for UK based news websites.

If you have any problems with this feedbean or aren’t sure what to do, then please consult the Q & A page, leave a comment, or email dave@feedbeans.com.

The feeds contained within this feedbean are:

Yay! Feedbeans!

Dave — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:01:25 +0000

Thanks for visiting Feedbeans. There isn’t much here right now, but soon I’m hoping to be able to fill the site up with loads of useful information about RSS and of course to package up some really great feeds into feedbeans!

I’m Dave. I like blogs, and RSS and all other forms of social media. You can find out more on my personal blog, DavePress.

The idea for the site came to me because quite a few people have mentioned to me the difficulty in finding useful feeds to subscribe to. Generally speaking, this is best done by organically adding subscriptions as you go along, so where one feed links to another, you subscribe to that and so on. However, much of this work is essentially duplication, because someone else will have already made that connection themselves. So why not just have collections of feeds on various themes available for download?

So, I’ll be putting together collections of feeds and making them available on this site as downloadable OPML files. These can then be imported in a feed reader to add them to someone’s subscriptions.

Some stuff I need to sort out:

Notes on how users of various readers can make use of Feedbeans
Whether or not Feedbean should always start with a capital f
Some general guidance on RSS and aggregation
How people can suggest feeds to be added to a feedbean

And probably a tonne of other stuff.