...blogrolls and subscriptions are vital enough elements in the blogging experience that there should be more tools to help manage these resources... ...By doing nothing more than occasionally linking to articles I find interesting and writing down my thoughts, the system would learn about my interests and would be able to suggest further reading.
It would be nice if instead of having to actually post articles, your aggregator would track if you read them or not. Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I don't want to post every article I find interesting. I'd rather not post it unless I have something to add. I want stories marked as something I'm interested in with no more effort than clicking on a link. If I end up reading a story, and a followup, or two, or three, that should have more weight than if there is no follow up, or if I see a follow up and ignore it. If I read a story, I want other links to that story to appear in my aggregator and I want to be able to filter those links by a variety of criteria. I do NOT want to have to go through the effort of checking daypop for related stuff. In summary information should come to me and I should not have have to make a special effort to tell the computer what I'm interested in. Is that so much to ask for? ;) (I realize that this could quickly plunge in to the shadowy depths of ai, personal agents, etc. but I don't think it needs to.)
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