The New Media Diva

Corvida hipped me to Phil’s RSS Reset challenge (hmmm…guess it’s a challenge) over at Scribkin in my RSS post below. Phil was nice enough to hook me up with an invite to Toluu to help get me going with the challenge. (Thanks Phil).

I’ll have to admit that I wasn’t familiar with Toluu at all until I read it about on Phil’s site. It seems to be a feed-sharing site (perhaps like del.icio.us I guess). I need to play with it more before I find out what to do.

Phil and Corvida are dumping all of their feeds from Google Reader and starting fresh, only adding new feeds according to the following rules (from Phil’s site):

• Keep feeds that track web site buzz (business-impacting).
• Allow feeds such as Disqus, Intense Debate or other low-volume feeds that are necessary for timely work decisions.
• Allow adding as many Google Reader Shared Items feeds as needed.
  From Rash: I don’t use Google Reader. I tried and failed. Too much stuff was moving around, so I’ll be dumping my stuff from bloglines. If I see the need to go back to GR for the challenge, I guess I’ll have to do it. Quick question though: Why is bloglines still in beta after *how* many years?
• Allow adding of aggregate, smart or keyword-filtered feeds such as RSSmeme FriendFeed Friends or TechMeme.
• Allow adding smaller site feeds. We set the upper limit for a small site to be 200 at the time of adding. This can be re-visited if the number is too small.
• Allowance process: If a site feed is so unique that it is not being covered by the processes defined above, an allowance will be made to subscribe to a direct feed to any site. The number of allowances can not exceed 10.

Yikes! That’s a tall order, but I’ll sign on the dotted line. I need to read more of what Phil is doing so I can get going. More soon.