Monday, March 31, 2003

Mark Pilgrim says that his aggregator is already Tivo-like. Mark's recommended reading page is pretty cool, but the algorithm recommended quite a few clunkers. My recommendations included the old blogs for Sam Gentile, Drew Marsh, Patrick Logan, and Keith Ballinger (the domain on this last one actually changed hands through less than honest means), and rebelutionary, which hasn't been updated in months. When you cut those out, my recommended reading list is pretty much the A-list of tech bloggers, not very interesting. Their posts get echoed so much that it's more efficient to let the network recommend them for me.

This actually highlights one of my frustrations with aggregation - I'm having a lot of trouble keeping track of who's moving where, and I've given up on a number of feeds for that reason. Then there's the problem that Brad mentioned the other day, that I was just subscribed to too many feeds. So I've started unsubscribing from a lot of feeds (but since I don't use Radio for aggregation anymore, my channelroll doesn't necessarily reflect that - I should probably remove it entirely since it doesn't serve its intended purpose). I like the implications of Sam Ruby's statement: recommendations at the individual blog entry level. But how could I possibly do that without polling every RSS feed in the known universe?

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