eating cucumbers without permission...

I wanted an RSS filter because BlogLines doesn’t have one, but I couldn’t find anything suitable. So: ReFilter.

It uses simple filters modelled on Google syntax, e.g.:

• exploded
• -"sars art"
• dccreator:bob
• -start:title:"re:"
• has:enclosure
• enclosure:type:audio/mpeg
• -enclosure:url:aol
• -category:politics -category:ranting
• -(category:politics OR category:ranting)

Or even something a little more complicated: -"BoingBoing friend" -"former guestblogger" -"reading from my" -ukulele -Disney -((RIAA OR MPAA OR DRM OR copyright) AND (fascist OR Nazi)) -dccreator:Xeni

Real world example: I’m using -title:"best of win" to filter out those “Best of Weblogs, Inc.” features, which are ridiculously frequent on low-volume blogs — there’s some amusing irony in cluttering the Spam Weblog with three in a row.

Anyway, give it a spin.