Well today I have wasted almost the whole day trying to get a certain batch of RSS feeds into Google Reader only to discover that Google reader does not cater for authenticated feeds.  

:(

There is a workaround to use FreeMyFeed, but that did not work to well either. 

double :(

I then tried a few RSS client readers only to discovered some time later that these specific RSS feeds do not conform to the latest XML required layouts.  

tripple :(

Now its back to creating these feeds and reading them within its own created environment and application.



Update:

To make in even worse, it appears as if the feeds generated are "raw" and not really feeds just yet.   It needs some .net components to make it work.    Come on.....   This is bad.    We are not all using Windows you know.

Update2:

...so eventually figured out that the best workaround for me is to:

  1. Identify the relevant journals of interest to me and store the direct EBSCOhost URL in Scrapbook
  2. Setup an alert in EBSCOhost to notify me via email when new journal articles are added
  3. Use the direct URL to then view the complete article list in EBSCOhost.   I make a note in Scrapbook on the latest article in the list.   This is just to make sure that no articles are missed
  4. Work through the article list and mark the relevant ones with "Add to folder" if it is "potentially news worthy"
  5. When the exercise is done, go into the folder and then "save" the articles making sure that the citation information is also saved
  6. When the "save" page is displayed, screencapture and file it into Scrapbook.   In Scrapbook it can then be futher trimmed if necessary.    If Scrapbook is not used, then the article list can also be emailed from within EBSCOhost.

The above might sound like a long workaround, but in reality it does not take much longer than reading through a RSS feed.    A lot of time is however saved by capturing the articles into Scrapbook for further editing.