Combining Feeds

Alright, as some of you may, or may not know, I've been trying to find an easy and effective way to combine multiple RSS feeds into one feed. I've always wanted to be able to just post something to one site, and have it automatically be posted somewhere else. For instance, if I wanted to post a gallery of pictures to a photo gallery site, I'd really rather not have to do the work to post a link to that specific gallery to my weblog. It seems pretty redundant.

I tried several different things like posting images directly in weblog posts instead of in galleries, using tumblr to try to blend feeds, and ultimately, the answer was always right in my reach. Google Reader.

I use Google Reader everyday keeping up with my 100s of rss feeds. Basically, I try to read a lot. What I didn't know was that I could create a tag (also called a folder), add feeds to it, and then share that feed as a web page, publicly. This web page, in turn, has an rss feed. Instant feed combining and blending.

So, currently, of my many, many readers (pffffpfftppt), you're probably subscribed to my main blogger rss feed, which is http://feeds.feedburner.com/markclea. This feed won't go away, so if you want to still be subscribed to just that feed, that's cool. But, if you'd like to try something new and different, and keep up with all my goings on, you can subscribe to this new feedburner feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/markcleafeeds. This feed contains, or will contain the latest and greatest from image galleries, video sites, and blogging platforms that I use. I'll be curious to know how this will all turn out. Currently, the feed might be a bit confusing, because it looks like it organizes feeds in the order that I added them to Google Reader, which isn't necessarily in chronological order. I'd suggest just ignoring the past items available in the feed for now, and wait for the next thing.