__/ [dsmatthews@xxxxxxxxx] on Sunday 01 January 2006 16:26 \__
> Has the RSS/Blog vine become overloaded with redundant references?
Yes.
> If you Slashdot it, Digg it or Blog it, eventually you find yourself
> rereading the same subject matter in multiple places.
Feeds get indexed, aggregated, propagated, re-used, manipulated and so forth.
Some blog posts in themselves are RSS feeds as to allow tracking by the
visitors.
Vis-a-vis Slashdot,
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/01/1424220&tid=126
Of Internet Users, Only 4% Knowingly Use RSS (from a couple of hours ago)
> Has the time come for an AI driven Metablog, the one blog to rule them
> all?
Like one operating system to rule them all? Like one corporation for assigned
names and numbers. Not a good idea if you look at history...
> I am suggesting that the duplication of stories is reducing the
> filtering value of blogs and that tools need to be created to collect
> RSS feeds into a
> single customised feed for the user to scan. In the same way that sites
> like Digg rate stories the Feed Filter (or is that Filter Feeder?) can
> rate
> stories at the meta level by their accumulated scores over multiple
> sources. It should also be able to find the link to the original
> information and
> present this link to the user so that they may click through directly.
> Each RSS feed story could benefit from more meta data been associated
> with it too.
>
> Sorting out the economics of this in a fair and reasonable manner may
> be tricky as a Metablog would bypass the individual blog layer and thus
> reduce
> their advertising income.
I don't think that rankings and income are the main motives for running a
blog, let alone administer a site like Slashdot.
> Are we anywhere near to having such functionality in feed readers? What
> are my smart filtering options now and what do you see happening in the
> future
> as blog redundancy accelerates out of control? What tools do we have
> now and which are still to be created to assist in the knowledge
> management
> aspects of blogs? What are your preferred ways of archiving and
> retrieving stories that were of value to you?
* Subscribe to feeds which have proven to give stories whose pattern suit
you.
* Flag items of interest
* Use filters to highlight items of interest, e.g. based on length, keywords,
authors. I do this with newsgroups.
* Use feed readers that retain the trail of older item rather than purging
the 'tail'.
* Use bookmarks, tags, categories. Consider social bookmarks like del.icio.us
(if you don't mind Yahoonism).
Best wishes,
Roy
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