Lazyfeed – a new way to read blogs

July 12, 2009 by Colby
Filed under: RSS 

Lazyfeed is a new live web based RSS reader that brings you blog posts based on keywords, instead of subscribing to specific feeds.

It is currently in closed beta but I was lucky enough to get an invite from them yesterday.

After playing with it a bit, I am unconvinced of its usefulness over classical readers for science based professions.  For example, some keywords simply bring me 10s of stories covering the same issue.  While this may be what some people are looking for (different perspectives), it is difficult to quickly gauge the quality of the blogs.  For this, I rely on subscriptions based on personal research and recommendations from connections on social media (twitter, friendfeed, etc), and I find that I read almost all posts from quality bloggers.

Each keyword feed also isn’t consolidated into a single feed; hopefully further versions will give this as an option.

It would be most useful to track major media news coverage as of now.

I will update with further developments or better examples of how it can be used differently than current readers.

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