With life being so busy lately, I've fallen behind in keeping up with tech news, religion blogs, etc. like I used to.

There are some feeds that I used to subscribe to that have such a prolific rate of posts (like Macworld, MacNN), that I just can't follow them anymore. That's where Fever by Shaun Inman comes in.

I read some about it when it was released, but I've never really had that much trouble keeping up with my feeds using Google Reader before. But as of late, I have been so overwhelmed with work, that I check news and twitter once a day, if I'm lucky. That's where Fever comes in. Instead of paring down the blogs I subscribe to down to just a select few, you throw the kitchen sink at it. It then looks for items that are getting a lot of discussion and rates them on a human temperature scale (hence the name, Fever).

I haven't been using it long, so get back to me in a few weeks for a report on if it's worth the purchase for the longterm...You do have to install it on your own web hosting account, it's a PHP app, and you need a MySQL database. There's a great iPhone version as well. Now if I have a minute, I can see what the hottest news items from all of the blogs I follow are. Click on the thumbnail on the right for a larger version.

Religion: check
genealogy: ??? Not really...
accident: no clue where that one is coming from...