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A colleague noticed my impressive list of exchange related blogs/sites in Google Reader and asked me to share them with him on occasion. Luckily you can export all feeds from a specific folder via some workaround.

Exchange RSS Feeds

You can get the resulting file by downloading it from RapidShare (I’ve activated TrafficShare for this file, so no nag-screen there). You can then import all of these feeds to the RSS-reader of your choice in just one shot.

The hard part is keeping up ;-)

Note: If you are more into mailinglists than you should have a look at this blogpost from Joeware. (ref. ADFind)

Those of you that are eagerly looking for some bed time reading material (and aren’t satisfied with the “Exchange News Ticker”-widget in the lower right corner of this blog) can check out the Exchange 2010 KB-article news feed as explained by Paul Robichaux.

See RSS feed for Exchange 2010 KB articles – Paul’s Down-Home Page: Exchange, security, and more.

I just discovered a new toy: the Google Shell. You can actually think of it as web based command line front end for most of the popular Google Tools.

Some examples for you to try:

• guest@goosh.org:/web> help
• guest@goosh.org:/web> place brussels
• guest@goosh.org:/web> translate en nl who needs powershell anyway
• guest@goosh.org:/web> read blog.koenvermoesen.be

The result on that last one actually looks like this:

Enjoy!

I spend a lot of time in Google Reader trying to keep on top of technology. After trying a couple of desktop based RSS-readers (GreatNews & Liferea) I switched to a web-based solution. Man, I LOVE flex-offices!

I’m not really into Web 2.0 hype but in this case I actually find the community features really useful…

For my current job, for example, I’m working on a “knowledge hub” for Microsoft Exchange. I’m not supposed to know everything myself, but the more the better obviously. Hence I subscribed to about 37 blogs covering the matter.

While I’m enjoying my time in Reader I’m tagging the interesting entries in these feeds with a specific tag. This also allows me to do some deduplication, as there’s really no benefit in having 10 “SP1 is out!”-entries. This tag is shared and the RSS feed for it is incorporated in my personal Sharepoint site, the MS Exchange specific Sharepoint site and this blog (see bottom right). Efficiency!

I’m using a similar system to share items with both my brother an my girlfriend. Both of them have their own tag and both of them subscribed to the corresponding feed in their reader account. That way I’m able to provide both of them with high quality shared items whereas the normal “share” feature would give them 50% noise.