Comments on: I Am Your Filter

By: You Know You’re A Cool Geek When….

You Know You’re A Cool Geek When…. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:52:13 +0000

[...] read hundreds of RSS feeds every day and act as a human filter to select the best of them for your [...]

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You Know You’re A Cool Geek When… | Skeptic Geek — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:57:49 +0000

[...] read hundreds of RSS feeds every day and act as a human filter to select the best of them for your [...]

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RSS, Human Filters And Real Time Streams | Regular Geek — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:15:37 +0000

[...] is not really mainstream, but it is an RSS reader and there will be very little noise to deal with. I have previously stated that I could be your filter for much of your technology information. But, how do you find that out? [...]

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By: John Bredehoft

John Bredehoft — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:57:21 +0000

That did the trick. I created a “shared-business” tag, which I then shared. The tagged contents are publicly viewable and have their own atom feed.

Thanks for the tip.

By: robdiana

robdiana — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:43:41 +0000

John,

I am not sure if changing your sharing to multiple accounts would help. You may be able to tag your shares in Google Reader, and then create separate feeds for each tag.

By: John Bredehoft

John Bredehoft — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:20:14 +0000

Most of my Google Reader subscriptions are related to the four categories where I am focusing my attentions: business, music, the Inland Empire of California, and NTN Buzztime. All of my Google Reader shares dump into a single FriendFeed account, and perhaps I can improve on that in some way. (I do have four separate FriendFeed rooms, one per topic; perhaps I can figure out a way to automatically redirect the items to the appropriate room.)

By: robdiana

robdiana — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:31:51 +0000

Andy,

I only partially agree with “humans make the best filters”. Humans do make very good filters until bias is really considered. I am not sure if I have an obvious bias in my shares, but there is always something implicit. Algorithms can make good filters too, but they end up being limited. If you look at techmeme, they are trying to get the best of both worlds, some algorithmic filtering and a dash of human filtering. This sort of combination will probably become even more powerful as we get more sharing.