Personal knowledge aggregation idea
Brian Dennis at the New Media Hack has an idea to help with (personal) Knowledge Aggregation
I'd like to write a script that daily pulls down those tagged items, marks them as read, and in a blue sky world, fed them to a personal focused crawler. The crawler would do some clustering, context analysis, and automated search to build a compendium report for me. I'd pick it up the next day in my aggregator or stash it somewhere easily accessible. Call it knowledge aggregation.
Sharpreader and RSS Bandit do this from a different perspective. As they aggregate new items, they look for trackbacks and links in each post and build nested threads of those related materials. The default Newsgator view provides a "related" link that goes to their own search, but it can be customized to do other things. Bloglines provides a link to all items that reference the item you are viewing as well as providing a partial count, so you can see right away how many people have been referencing a given item (similar to the Technorati cosmos. It would be interesting to take this to the next level as Brian suggests and link to related-by-search items from one of the blog search tools (Feedster, PubSub, Waypath, Blogdigger, ...). And of course, these should look beyond web feeds to the web as a whole and bring back related materials. Brian suggests doing this only for specifically marked articles to save the spin cycles. And he suggests grouping all the requests into one cluster to find articles that are related to the topics I've highlighted.
How is this related to personal knoweldge management? In my world of research and reading, having my tools be smart enough to bring content to me that could be relevant without overwhelming me would be wonderful.
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A related, but complex, feature I personally would like is something which somehow (the how being complicated) captured every post (and site or feed) on which I comment, tracked them, followed further comments on that thread - and ideally also did some "smart" monitoring of the original site's further posts - as they may reference the comments.
Even better, it should follow the links (and/or search based on names etc) from other commentors and also find their posts on their own sites on the same topic - putting them all into a single "topic" view - and noting/highlighting my own participation in that thread.
This would allow me to get some degree of notification/alerting when my comments are acted upon/responded to and for topics I am very interested in would allow me to quickly "catch up" on related discussions. (so also incorporate trackbacks as well as the blog links from people's comments - perhaps also technorati tags, del.icio.us links etc.
Shannon
Opera browser (version 8) does this *very* nicely and automatically. Add search feeds from pubsub, yahoo, moreover and feedster and you have everything you need................. For free of course. Opera is **so fast** it has made me ditch Firefox (!!)
Rup3rt
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Have you tried Feedmarker (www.feedmarker.com)? It's a free, web-based aggregator with taggint (like delicious) and support for bookmarks. Plus, it outputs feeds of all your stuff (so you can even subscribe to a feed of a feed of your bookmarks, or something).
Check it out.