Without an algorithmic approach like you described, you can either follow very few people and miss out on good stuff, or you can follow lots of people & have tr

Without an algorithmic approach like you described, you can either follow very few people and miss out on good stuff, or you can follow lots of people & have trouble filtering out bad content. Somewhat tangentially related: old post with some thoughts on the value of randomness in recommendations http://fr.anc.is/2012/01/09/a-kind-act-of-randomness/ http://fr.anc.is/2012/01/09/a-kind-act-of-randomness/ [Edit: This reply is obviously meant to the entry about algorithmic approaches a bit below. I guess with all the editing / deleteing we got a bit confused.]