I would consider myself only a moderate RSS consumer. I use iGoogle (I’m suppressing a laugh at the name… maybe I’ll start referring to my blogging self as “iRyan”) as my default homepage in Firefox. It’s full, as you can imagine, because it doesn’t allow for the bulk that an RSS reader might - even with the tabs (which I rarely use). For someone like me who only reads articles if my surface level scan (a feature built into iRyan 1.0) detects something I like, it is a great tool in a limited capacity.

So I found out about AideRSS today. It’s an intelligent way to filter relevant information into a feed from your favorite sites. Something like this will help me, a moderate user, maximize the limited “front page news” that I consume. It could obviously help power RSS consumers as well, cutting down the hundreds of new articles to just a fraction of the really important ones you want to read.

Check it out here in their demo videos:
http://www.aiderss.com/blog/screencasts/introduction/
http://www.aiderss.com/blog/screencasts/rss-import/
http://www.aiderss.com/blog/screencasts/site-widgets/

From their site: “AideRSS is an intelligent assistant, which continuously monitors RSS feeds, finds the good stuff, creates a PostRank™, and delivers it to you. We do the grunt work of collecting information on every post, allowing you to focus on your agenda and stay on top of the news stream.”

I really like the widget they created as well, however I do not like their creepy little cat-thingy mascot: