How to Track Your Group's Attention Data

Here's a neat idea I just discovered. If you're willing to move all your blog/news RSS feeds into a single aggregate feed, you can track your or your group's or even your company's attention metadata. This will make you become more savvy about reading needs. Here's how...

1) Export your RSS feeds to an OPML file. Here's how on Bloglines.
2) Import the OPML file into FeedBlendr to create an uberfeed
3) Move the uberfeed to FeedBurner and bingo, you can start tracking your reading habits, such as most clicked, etc.

There's a lot you can do with this trick. For example, you can combine essential feeds into one and then integrate it into your intranet. Give it a go.

Technorati Tags: Attention, Lifehacks, Metadata, FeedBurner

Comments

[Eddie Awad]

For step 2, you can import your OPML into Google Reader, and then use Google Reader's label share functionality to create an uberfeed.

I find this approach better then using FeedBlendr because with Google Reader you can add or delete feeds on the fly from the shared public label feed.

[Kingsley]

I actually did this for a while on my blog. Also, it would be interesting to see how this data can then be leveraged using Feedburner's Feedflare API.

[Roberta Zouain]

Great technique, thanks for sharing! I love FeedBurner more and more everyday.

[Tac]

You can also take that OPML file and upload it in the feeds section of TailRank and see which posts are getting the most links. That way you can see what other people find the most interesting from your list.