Enter Yahoo Pipes. Yahoo what? Pipes. Yahoo Pipes. Never heard of it? I’m sure you’re not alone. It hasn’t exactly garnered a lot of press. From the Pipes Overview page:

[Yahoo] Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.

Yeah, I know - I hate the word “mashup,” too. But this is actually useful.

I use Pipes to consolidate RSS feeds by topic. Example: my Typography News pipe includes eight different RSS feeds from typography-related blogs. All feed items are then sorted by date and de-duped based on item title.

Once saved, Yahoo Pipes produces a single RSS feed for the entire pipe, which I can then add to my laptop, my desktop PC and my smartphone. Now when I run across a new typography blog, instead of adding the RSS feed to each of my devices, I can simply add it to my Typography News pipe and access the content no matter which device I’m using.

If you’re struggling with RSS feed overload, give Yahoo Pipes a try. It’s free, easy and useful (and don’t worry, Yahoo is not pulling a Belkin and paying me to write this).