Cortlandt Winters wrote: > Like many, I've gotten in the habit of looking at the mm news aggregator > about once a day. It may be my imagination, but over the past year it has > seems to have become more and more noisy, to the point where I'd really like > to find a way of skimming out about 90 of the feeds and hopefully still get > the small percentage that I find interesting.
I understand. I *like* having 500 similar feeds grouped together like this, particularly for searching, but news-hunting has required more and more time over the last six months, and I fear I've been missing the importance of some items due to the additional volume. Have you seen digg.com? It's a recommendation system for any web resource, not time-based listing of a smaller group of feeds like an aggregator, but it's another way of hunting down the relevant news: http://digg.com/faq tech.memeorandum.com is another type of news-recommendation system, this time starting with a pool of weblog authors and highlighting the links the group has recently cited most often. I don't think a Digg-like approach would match our own news-hunting needs, and a Memeorandum-style engine can focus more on controversy than information, but can you visualize other recommendation systems which might be more appropriate for what we're trying to do...? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
