Comments for Smartening the aggregator

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2006-01-16

2006-01-17T01:00:56Z

Items 1-3 of your short list above sound good, but I am very protective of my serendipitous discovery. I don't want things brought to the top of my feeds because they are similar to what I've clicked through before, for example. I've found that organizing feeds is themed folders works well, and clicking on "river of news" when I have the time usually shows me what the hot topics are because they get enough buzz to appear in more than one feed I scan. Perhaps some "waypath" -like option would be nice to be able to click on, but (I can't believe I'm saying this) I'd rather see RSS stay the way it is than take too big a risk on seeing it ruined.

Comment from jackvinson on 2006-01-16

2006-01-17T02:27:55Z

We are in agreement, Marshall. One of the problems I have with services that explicitly monitor everything I click / view is that I don't think that would give a very good perspective on what I really want. I already group my feeds by folder, so I can focus on general topics when necessary.

What I was thinking with the trainable filter option was that I would do the training by saying, "add articles like this" to a filter. I supose it would have to have a "but not like this" option as well.

I don't want my feeds gunked up with extraneous stuff either. I think it's my aggregator that should give me options to find similar / linked articles within my feeds or on the larger web. SharpReader has an option to see the Technorati Cosmos on an article, but they are usually too fresh for that to be of much help. I'd like to see more of those kinds of options built into the aggregator. Maybe there could be a standard interface that lets users search on their favorite blog search tool.

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2006-01-16

2006-01-17T04:12:46Z

Here here on all that Jack. Ever notice how slow all the blogsearch engines are to discover inbound links anyway? I just got notified by Technorati of a link to one of my posts that I've been commenting back on and seeing loads of traffic from for like 48 hours - it's almost always my Statcounter that shows me inbound links before any of the blogsearch engines do. I would like to see which one is quickest, and I'm guessing it's going to be Google Blogsearch. So attach that to my feeds and I'd be happiest, I'm guessing.

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Comment from Jack Pan on 2006-01-18

2006-01-19T00:44:16Z

Jack, I found your site through referrers to GreatNews. I must say your "Ideal feed reader features" post is one of the most insightful thoughts about rss reader usability. Subscribed!