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The problem with RSS is that the publisher needs to support it, and quite a few are actively moving away from it. For example, Wikipedia Picture of the Day RSS

The problem with RSS is that the publisher needs to support it, and quite a few are actively moving away from it. For example, Wikipedia Picture of the Day RSS feeds don't work anymore: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Picture_of_the_Day_RSS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Pi... Also, considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful.

mcovey 12y ago
> considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful. I have to disagree with that, I enjoy my RSS feeds uncensored, if a feed has too low of a signal to noise ratio then I unsubscribe. I have a few of my own filters set up in InoReader for stuff that I'm absolutely sick of hearing about, but none if it is filtered for me "intelligently". There are plenty of services built on top of RSS that do filter and remix the content already, however.
steanne 12y ago
newsblur has trainable filters.