I'm looking at AideRSS an 'intelligent' RSS service. It has bang whizzo technology to rate articles in RSS feeds so you can choose to look at only the best. I just ran it on this blog (see here) and it thinks that of the last fifteen posts (i.e. an RSS bucketful) 26% are good, 26% are great and 26% are the best. I think these are all the same 26% (i.e. 4 posts) in each category and the ratings are a bit polarised, either 10/10 or 0/10 according to whether or not they have been cited on Bloglines (whatever that means). The results seem arbitrary, some wow posts are rated and not others.
Now I have more reading time on my hands I could do with a nice intelligent rss filtering service. For example, on the whole I like Engadget except for the endless new MP3 players and mobile phones they reel off. Likewise on the whole I like Slashdot which is where I discovered AideRSS but only maybe one in five stories there warrant my attention (e.g. software patents: not a must read for me).
Anyway, I'll try setting it up and seeing whether it filters on what it thinks I like or what everyone else seems to like. There is a difference.
Todo: look at bloglines, see how to cite my own posts.
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