Re: [syndication] Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <298b01c0944b$96faa2c0$33a1dc40@murphy2>, Dave Winer
<dave@userland.com> writes
>If a channel is inactive after seven days, we drop it from the list, but we
>keep reading it every day, and if it changes, it goes back on the list and
>we resume hourly scans.
>
>So the workaround is to update every six days to be sure you don't fall off
>our radar.

It feels like there must be many weekly newsletters out there that
update every seven days. Would it hurt to change your rules to 8 and 7
days?

>The reason we limited it is because the list was getting huge and much of
>the stuff was inactive.

The inactivity is a shame, but the hugeness is inevitable, isn't it?

I'll quote it again.

"This is the biggest problem-opportunity in RSS space. Discovery can be
overwhelming. Too many channels, too hard to find the good ones. We need
curators and critics -- people who appreciate a good channel. Let's also
learn what makes a channel good. What's your favorite and why? As the
tools get better we'll be asking these kinds of questions."

We need categorization, and maybe ratings/hotlists. This can only get
worse than it looks! 

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