Combining and filtering feeds: Top blogs on video

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In answering some one’s question about work in online video I made time to fix a resource I had put together some time ago for SplashCast team members – an RSS feed containing only blog posts containing the word “video” from a number of the biggest Web 2.0 blogs online.  It’s a handy way to catch all the big, topical stories in the news – or news blogs anyway.  I thought some of my readers here might like it too.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarshallsTopBlogsOnVideo

That feed above contains articles from the following blogs that contain the word “video”
TechCrunch, Mashable, Gigaom, PaidContent, ArsTechnica (all top web 2.0 generalist blogs) and my personal blog Marshallk.com

If you’re real interested in online video, I’d also recommend reading Beet.tv and NewTeeVee.  (What other video focused blogs would people here recommend?)  Every post in those blogs is about video though, so I kept them out of the aggregate feed above.

How does it look?  Check it out at the end of this post, after the “more” link.

Here’s how I made that feed.

I identified domain leaders in my topic of interest.  If you don’t know how to do that, one starting place is to go to http://technorati.com/blogs/MYTOPICOFINTEREST and look around there.

I grabbed the RSS feed of each blog and spliced them together using the wonderful service FeedDigest. One of the many options there is to filter for a “search query.”  I entered the word video there.  This service does a lot (including displaying the feed live here in this post) and I gladly pay $50/year for it.

FeedDigest produced a combined and filtered feed for me.  I took that RSS URL and entered it into FeedBurner because it makes everything pretty, it lets me make lots of changes to the base feed without disrupting the readers’ experiences, etc.

Then I posted here about it so share this info with anyone interested.  Just imagine how much fun you could do creating feeds like this for yourself or your friends!  The folks at SplashCast like it quite a bit.

Want to see the output?  Check out this link…