Here’s what I want to do with TailRank. Personally at least.
I want to import my existing OPML file into TailRank, get back a filter, then subscribe to that feed in my aggregator. This filter will watch my 800 feeds to see if there’s anything interesting. Otherwise it won’t even appear on my radar.
Then I want to seriously cut back the feeds that I read to just friends. People I meet on a day-to-day basis and want to interact with.
I think this will seriously improve my productivity as well as increase my throughput.
We’ll see here shortly…
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January 20, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Hi Kevin,
I had a similar idea for dealing with your own blog. How about using Tailrank as a blog search for your own blog? Does your search support a “site:” operator-style lookup?
Something like Technorati Blog Search but with context.
January 20, 2006 at 11:16 pm
I wish you’d elaborate a little more, for the sake of us hapless non-geek wanna-be users out here. Whadda’ya mean, “get back a filter”? You mean, your 800-feed OPML (which I gather is a kind of reading list?) will serve as a guide for TailRank to find similar feeds, or articles from similar feeds? Or TailRank will look only at those 800 feeds for articles you might be interested in?
I used NewsMonster for a time back in the day, and I’m currently trying (and liking) Rojo, so I’ve learned to be interested in whatever you’re working on next. I haven’t spent much time with TailRank yet because I just don’t quite get it. I could go into more details about some of the problems I have with traditional feed readers (Rojo included), but it basically boils down to “information overload.” I haven’t figured out how to cope with that yet, and I haven’t figured out how exactly TailRank could help with that. I’ve also been trying to follow what Dave Winer is working on with NewsRiver, but his uber-geek posts make my head spin with the acronyms and it seems clear that it’ll be awhile before anything useable by those of us without a CS degree will come out of it.