Jinn of Quality and Risk

Pixar should get into the (short) cartoons business for TV channels. They seem to have all the necessary ingredients. ("Mike's New Car" requires QuickTime.) 

John Robb put together a list of professional newsfeeds for Radio users. Very useful, but too manual. I'm longing for a better way to manage my newsfeeds. I'd like support in finding (can Google help?), ranking and relating (a la Amazon), grouping (categories), merging, and suspending them. I'm also frustrated by feeds which offer a mere title or (worse yet) an incomplete sentence. I make a decision to read based on recommendation, source, title, first sentence or paragraph, and picture, if any; if I don't have enough information to determine how interesting an item may be, I simply don't read it. I wish for tools that manage my newsfeeds (coming from blogs, professional publications, wherever) as first-class objects, not aggregates of files. That will truly allow anyone to put together their own digital dashboard. We've got something very nice already with RSS and Radio Userland (as well as other tools and people's efforts). Now I thirst for more :-) 

See, Steve is an elitist and an innovator, and damn good at both. His greatest achievements are novel works of beauty and style. The Apple I and II were Works of Woz; but Lisa, Macintosh, NeXT and Pixar were all Works of Jobs. Dave Winer says Doc Searls totally nailed it. [On This Day in 1997, Scripting News]

I think Steve's achievements are ultimately works of love for revolution. Just ponder Here's To The Crazy Ones:

Here's to the crazy ones.
  The misfits.
    The rebels.
      The troublemakers.
        The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
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