The Daily Me

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

Http://roguemoon.manilasites.com/2001/02/28
An essay on syndication, personal publishing and "The Daily Me". It's
this last that I'm interested in here. 

The Media Lab had an idea 15 years ago that might result from high-
bandwidth always-on connections. This was a completely personalized
newspaper. Headline news, sports news, some random think pieces, your
favourite journalist along with some meeting reminders and a couple of
SMS urgent messages.

With RSS, Weblogs and some ingenuity this is pretty much buildable now.
I can see a few problems here though and I keep coming back to them. The
focus at the moment seems to be all around specific channels and
presenting the news sorted by channel name and then time. But as I've
said before it's not the channel I'm interested in it's the items. I sub
to slashdot RSS for the occasional article that perks my interest but
I'm still scanning by eye the other 100. SO the really hard part here is
trying to get an aggregating/indexing system to learn what I like and
what I don't.

Do you think it's possible that some sort of Firefly system or semi
intelligent algorithm could watch my behaviour (and "people like me") to
produce a personalized filter of the global RSS items? Or is the filter
definition going to be too hard and complex to use? The point here is
that RSS just solves the delivery problem and makes the raw data machine
readable. But it doesn't make it any easier for me to "Sip from the
firehose".

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