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Cool Tool: Consensus Web Filters
by dmv at 12:50 am EST, Mar 11, 2006 |
Like a lot of people, I find that the web is becoming my main source of news. Some of the sites I read are published by individuals, but I find the most informative sites are those published by groups of writers/editors/correspondents, including those put out by Main Steam Media (MSM). However for the past three months my main source of "what's new" has been a new breed of website that collaboratively votes on the best links. This genre does not have an official name yet, but each of these sites supplies readers with pointers to news items that are ranked by other readers. None of these sites generates news; they only point to it by filtering the links to newsy items. Using different formulas they rank an ever moving list of links on the web. The velocity of their lists varies by site, but some will have a 100% turnover in a few days. I check them daily.
This is a nice overview of the competition (minus reputation...) Update: It assigned the wrong link. Fixed. |
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RE: Bloglines | My Feeds (1760) (301)
by dmv at 12:54 am EST, Mar 11, 2006 |
Right... I've been using Bloglines for a littel while now. My approach is to use Bloglines as a means of storing the RSS feed of any blog that I might be interested in, and then to scroll through my collection every couple of days. As you mentioned -- no reputation. I definitely don't count on my Blogline feeds "recommending" anything that's any more interesting than the topic of the blog... the information I recieve is thus left to the discretion of the blogger.
Actually, I got the link wrong; the bookmarklet took the wrong URL and title associations. I've updated the original post. But yes, I agree that Bloglines is nothing but a straightforward aggregator. It is very competent at what it does, but it is more like webmail (you expect it gets and manages content, consistently) than anything intelligent. Obviously, we're going to go to smarter RSS tools, because it is very easy to build totally ridiculous OPML files. |
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Cool Tool: Consensus Web Filters
by Decius at 1:30 am EST, Mar 13, 2006 |
Like a lot of people, I find that the web is becoming my main source of news. Some of the sites I read are published by individuals, but I find the most informative sites are those published by groups of writers/editors/correspondents, including those put out by Main Steam Media (MSM). However for the past three months my main source of "what's new" has been a new breed of website that collaboratively votes on the best links. This genre does not have an official name yet, but each of these sites supplies readers with pointers to news items that are ranked by other readers. None of these sites generates news; they only point to it by filtering the links to newsy items. Using different formulas they rank an ever moving list of links on the web. The velocity of their lists varies by site, but some will have a 100% turnover in a few days. I check them daily.
This is a nice overview of the competition (minus reputation...) |
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