UPDATE: Feb. 16, 2008
The feed I created using Dapper no longer appears to work. I have no idea why. I plan on trying to recreate it at some point. If I’m able to get it to work and remain permanently viable, I’ll post it here as an update.

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I like seeing what gets posted on Lifehacker under the tags: finances, personal finances, budgeting, budget, and money. Unfortunately, the way the site is set up, hunting for those posts is a pain.

To the best of my knowledge, Lifehacker has only one RSS feed and it includes everything- you can’t subscribe to a feed of just the money posts or the budget posts. So the easiest way to keep up with those posts was to bookmark the individual tag pages:

http://lifehacker.com/tag/finances/

http://lifehacker.com/tag/personal-finance/

http://lifehacker.com/tag/money/

http://lifehacker.com/tag/budget/

http://lifehacker.com/tag/budgeting/

Not the ideal scenario but it works. I tried using a service I discovered on Lifehacker called Dapp Factory to create an RSS feed of just the posts with those tags I listed above. I only met with limited success. You can see the result here:

Dapper Feed Of Lifehacker Money Posts

It didn’t really create an RSS feed but if you subscribe to it in Firefox, it will add it to your feed bar and when you click on one of the topics, it will take you to that page on Lifehacker. In other words, it just creates a folder of the above bookmarks. Its not ideal but it beats the alternative of sifting through all of Lifehacker’s posts.

I have to admit, I didn’t spend a lot of time working on creating the feed using Dapper and I found the interface a bit confusing. If there is anyone out there who is familiar with Dapper or a similar service for creating custom feeds, you might be able to succeed where I failed. If anyone does get a feed of just the money tagged posts working, please let me know so I can share it with everyone.