Bundling

I’m about half way through setting up a new feature called bundles on my rss reader. I’ve found that following rss via tags is a pretty good way to go but sometimes I’m doing research on an overarching topic and I need a something to bring it all together.

As it stands now a bundle is a group of tags and feeds that have some common focus. I’ve got one for mobile that includes feeds from wapreview, MobileCrunch, SMS Text News and a few others, plus the tags: mobile, phone, verizon, sprint, tmobile, sms, smartphone and a few others. This way I can follow the mobile industry not just via mobile focused blogs, but also articles that are tagged with a mobile focus.

As long as the bundles stay under 50 articles a river style reading will do fine. If the bundles consistantly have more the 50 articles then I may have to include a secondary grouping structure probably in the form of a tag cloud.