Comments on: Ambient Feed Reading

By: dp

dp — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:21:11 +0000

Technorati keyword search does something like a peripheral aggregation, but not as well as I’d like. What would be really nice is a two stage search, where it finds material based on an explicit keyword, then looks for tags or text using a glossary I provide, and ranks the results according to the match rate. I can imagine Delicious having this sort of search function, where it uses a bundle to search the web for other bundles or similar groupings of text.

By: alice

alice — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:36:51 +0000

Hmm yes this is very interesting. I use Bloglines Beta and at this moment it has 16080 unread. I am not too worried about it though as I drag any blogs that are essential reading up to the top of my list to check daily (about 25) and then skim read the rest when I need a hit of inspiration, and as they are mostly creative or culinary that is quite easy to do as it is mostly image based. I also advocate a one-in-one-out policy wherein when I add an RSS then I delete an older one that is no longer relevant.

By: Jon Bounds

Jon Bounds — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:15:56 +0000

Ah, and the BiNS blogroll is dumped straight from my “Birmingham Blogs” Google Reader folder – one I very much skim-read. Skim-read so you don’t have to ;)

By: Jon Bounds

Jon Bounds — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:14:22 +0000

Interesting post Pete, I’m not sure I have either a feed-reading or email strategy — expect not letting things build up. That said, I’m going to write mine down anyway…

I tend not to worry about the “unread items” score as it’s so often photos of cats, or search feeds I monitor. Things I’d like to see, bit I’m not so bothered if I miss them.

In Google Reader I do have some folders that I read intently and won’t miss. Some that I skim and ‘star’ for later (mostly long articles and videos that I need to concentrate on).Some that I never read and just periodically “mark as read” — I’m using GReader’s search facility here, so I can find them if I need them.

In this instance I’m thinking the solution could be partly at least technical. Google Reader could kill all the friendfeed type sites if it added a few features some I wished for here.

And I guess you’re right – like twitter it’s best not to think you have to read all the small stuff.