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I really don't have a better alternative as I'm kinda struggling with the same problem. Anyway, my interests are kinda broad, so to use "curated feeds" like Ha

I really don't have a better alternative as I'm kinda struggling with the same problem. Anyway, my interests are kinda broad, so to use "curated feeds" like Hacker News or basing them on Twitter volume wouldn't really do it for me. Also I quite enjoy finding unexpected things that I didn't even know I'd be interested in. I'm an information junkie, what can I say. I DO know quite well what I'm NOT interested in though. Very few solutions let me filter out crap I'm NOT interested in. I think that approach would work the best for me. I wish information I read was accurately classified using some standard metadata conventions. It'd be so much easier to deal with. Obviously with the sheer volume of data, and the diversity of the sources, that's probably completely impossible to do in any reasonable way. Still, I wonder, if a popular RSS platform would implement some sort of standard, and then let their sources come on board if they wished to...I wonder how quickly it'd be adopted.

sokoloff 17y ago
>I DO know quite well what I'm NOT interested in though. Very few solutions let me filter out crap I'm NOT interested in. Yes, you know what you're not interested in. But can you express that in a machinable fashion? " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it " only helps you after you've already seen it. Alternately, if you could create the machine to take a human's loose description of what they're not interested in and filter it out, there are any number of ways to turn that into big money AND big benefit to society. (In very loose terms, that's what search engines do...)
abyssknight 17y ago
Weird, I thought I was the only one who did that. Google Reader is an awesome tool, but it is also a time sink. I've had to close the browser and keep it closed, even nixing out Twhirl to remove the Twitter noise as well. Unfortunately, when I get back, the entire thing is flooded with good information I want to read and keep up with, and I've probably missed the latest announcements from big industry players (i.e. last week, I missed the Apple refreshes). I find myself emailing articles to myself instead of reading them, and then when I get home post-work day I end up deleting them instead of reading them. Vicious cycle.

sokoloff 17y ago

>I DO know quite well what I'm NOT interested in though. Very few solutions let me filter out crap I'm NOT interested in. Yes, you know what you're not interested in. But can you express that in a machinable fashion? " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it " only helps you after you've already seen it. Alternately, if you could create the machine to take a human's loose description of what they're not interested in and filter it out, there are any number of ways to turn that into big money AND big benefit to society. (In very loose terms, that's what search engines do...)

abyssknight 17y ago

Weird, I thought I was the only one who did that. Google Reader is an awesome tool, but it is also a time sink. I've had to close the browser and keep it closed, even nixing out Twhirl to remove the Twitter noise as well. Unfortunately, when I get back, the entire thing is flooded with good information I want to read and keep up with, and I've probably missed the latest announcements from big industry players (i.e. last week, I missed the Apple refreshes). I find myself emailing articles to myself instead of reading them, and then when I get home post-work day I end up deleting them instead of reading them. Vicious cycle.