Read What Matters - PostRank
This is nothing new, I’ve known about this for a pretty long time but hey, better late than never and this can apply those who still haven’t gotten news about this great service! Onto the matter. PostRank is the new brand of what was before called AideRSS.
This is a great feed filtering service. What it does is that it takes out the most important, read-worthy content out there and serves it right in your face for you to analyze and enjoy.More specifically, it ranks any type of articles, blogs, news, and feed items.
How do they determine their stats and filters?
They use certain web-sources as their way of engaging and filtering the content. Some are:
- Views - Counts the page views via the RSS reader.
- Clicks - Counts the number of clicks via the RSS reader.
- Comments - Number of comments on the item.
- Delicious - Number of bookmarks saved.
- Magnolia - Same as Delicious, number of bookmarks saved.
- Digg - Number of diggs on the item.
- Twitter - Number of tweets mentioning the item.
- Pownce - Number of times the item has been shared.
- Google trackbacks - Number of links that trackback to the item.
And if you’re a Firefox extension-lover, you’re going to love the Firefox PostRank Extension. With this extension you have greater ability to control and customize your RSS feeds, discover top posts, preview PostRank score, and easy feed management. All this without ever leaving the page you’re on!
So in conclusion, PostRank is a great way to just filter the content so you get good juicy blog posts, articles, and so on. I view it as my free weekly, daily, hourly, newspaper. So go ahead and try the service, if you’ve already tried it tell me what do you think of PostRank in a comment so others can see feedback on the excellent service.
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One thing I’ve learned in my job is that everyone is at a different place in terms of what they know about the web. So it’s never too late to share info about great tools!
Thanks for the write-up — I can only talk to so many folks, so I love it when others in the community share what works for them.
The devs are working on some more cool stuff right now, too, including an overhaul of the widget. I’m really looking forward to seeing what people think when those launch.