Re: RSS feed filtered by keywords?

["jdklub <pseudonym@mindspring.com>" <pseudonym@mindspring.com>]

> (shouldn't you be able to return better results if you know someone 
> is
> on their lunch break, or just finished reading an email containing a
> Curry recipe?), but requires highly organized pre-processed 
> haystacks to
> work -- and requires smarts on the desktop of the needle-searcher 
> to be
> effective (and to maintain privacy).  Look at the literature on text
> classification, particularly support vector machines, and  
> particularly
> "boosting" systems.


i read some talk of context, and perhaps i've taken it out of context 
(no pun intended) but i read it roughly as: "i do all sorts of stuff 
that could provide contextual meaning to what i'm looking for. some 
of this stuff i do in 'real life' and some of it i do online." is 
that correct? an online example might be that you were just reading 
three articles about "Educational Looping." if you were then to 
search for "looping" it might then be able to infer that you're not 
looking for things about knitting, rug making, or program control 
structures.

this reminds me of les orchard's "PersonalWebProxy" project 
[http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PersonalWebProxy]. 
Basically, it's a thing that sits between you and the internet and 
collects information on what you do, gives you a rich history of what 
you've done, and trys to help find stuff (like RSS feeds or FOAF 
files). a thing such as this could provide the type of context i 
think was being talked about. if there was some way for this PWP to 
communicate with a 'large pool of content'*, it could provide 
appropriate/focused/contexual results. the PWP would know 
the "personal information" but only need to share relevant bits of it 
to perform the searches. it would know what feeds you're subscribed 
to (and possibly those of your friends by discovering FOAFs -> 
Published subscription lists), sites you read often, recent searches 
you've performed, etc, etc... if it was hooked up to your tivo it 
might even be able to fish out infomation about your favorite shows. 
it could scan your email, monitor your IM chats, and watch you on the 
web. and the best part is that it's *personal* and runs locally. it 
can (mostly) anonymously provide bits of information when needed, but 
mostly keep things under wraps.

*define as you like