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

["Jury Gerasimov" <jury@angara.ru>]

> "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!

I'll second that. Quality-proof is the one of the biggest channels selection
problem. I believe owners of channel directories (like xmltree.com,
moreover.com) and software viewers (like Headline Viewer) can gather
statistics about channel popularity and make it public. It's exactly as
download counter on download.com or hotfiles.com. May be it's here ? I'd be
glad simply overlook it.

Jury Gerasimov

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with support of Winamp skins, alarms, and atomic time.
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