The Darkreading security magazine posted an interesting article about the increase of a type of malware targetting RSS feed readers.
Users of desktop feed readers are particularly at risk if they don’t keep their feed readers up to date with the latest security additions.
And while practically all RSS feed readers prohibit execution of javascript [...]

By accident I found a new automatic feed scraper service called Feedmaker. It’s a lot simpler to use than Feedyes.com which means it gives a lot fewer filtering options (Feedmaker only allows word filtering). And it’s a lot less robust than Feed43.com which allows full customisation of what goes into the feed and what the [...]

Yahoo Pipes is a free tool provided by Yahoo! that enables you to "mashup" technologies.
There are a lot of things you can do with Pipes. Most involve manipulations of RSS feeds - text, images, video. The intention is to be able to create a new RSS feed from one or more other RSS feeds.
For [...]

Simplicity.
“Think simple” as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles” Frank Lloyd Wright
The simple answer regarding the corporate world’s concerns about the possibility of nasty remarks appearing on their blogs about their product or service is that those remarks [...]

The blog of Ralston Ventures has 5 interesting arguments that companies put forward NOT to have RSS feeds on their websites. It includes arguments for RSS feeds. Very interesting reading.
1. Someone else will use my content
There are techniques to stop feed scrapers.
2. Nobody will click-thru to my website.
It’s more important for people to read your [...]

Louis Gray has 10 excellent suggestions for improvements to the usability of Google Reader — which I think can be and should be in all online RSS feed readers.
1. “More Like This” Suggestions
A section that shows similar feeds to the subscribed ones.
2. Eliminate Duplicate Feed Items
The ability to determine if a story has already been [...]

Podango, a hosting service for individually owned podcast stations, today launched a very useful station by Jason Van Orden. It’s called The Podcasting Mastery Station and is meant to assist new podcasters and to share podcasting know-how.
If you are not familiar with Podango, go check out the site. It’s very well designed and well [...]

Darren Rowse conducted a poll recently among his readers on reasons why they would unsubscribe from a feed.
The one main reason I would unsubscribe is when the bulk of the content of a feed becomes less than relevant to me. I won’t list all 34 reasons Darren’s readers came up with. Here are the [...]

Attensa today announced a free beta release of their RSS Reader for Microsoft Outlook.
Attensa for Outlook 2007 is an integrated RSS reader. It adds additional tools to receive and manage RSS, as well as to process information with AttentionStream processing - to analyze behaviors and organize based on trends.

Attensa for Outlook is the first RSS [...]