Use good RSS feeds as content editors

Last night while listening to Keith Robinson (of dkeithrobinson.com) in the Edgework podcast, I heard a really good idea on how to deal with the problem of knowing that what you’re reading online is good stuff. From all that’s written about web design and development, how to reach the really good articles without wasting tons of time?

Keith says that what he does is find a small group of trusted sources on the subject matter of his interest. People that he knows are not wasting their time with stupid stuff or that won’t bookmark a bad article. Then simply subscribe to their bookmarks (most people now post an individual feed for their links in their blogs).

Unconsciously I have been using that technique for the past 3 months. But I hadn’t heard the concept pointed out as a formal idea. Keith says it’s like having your trusted sources doing editorial work for you.

You’re probably already doing it, but if you’re a Google Reader user (as I am), you can specify special “folders” for each topic you decide to filter using this cool content hack.