>So after a while of having these stories download every day, I started >thinking that it wouldn't be hard to make up a system where people selected >the /kinds/ of news they're interested in; and, then based on that, a >program could point them at the most relevent stories in a given day's >news. But with finer grain than just "I like stories in the tech >Technology section, and nothing from the Sports section!" More like an >Amazon recommendation system, but for news stories.
Well, there's AI::Categori[zs]e. If you wanted to split news into topics, that might work. I don't know how well it would work if you tried to split the news up into: a) Interesting News b) Readable News c) Bin me now But, suck it and see +Pete _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.