Here we go again! I’m looking at all of these feeds to be read, hundreds of them, and I’m frustrated. It’s no different than email — inbox overload. The existing filtering mechanisms are just too simple. To me, it seems like all or nothing. Like the Google Reader. this is nice work. I’ve been thinking that maybe I could just put all of my RSS feeds in, but it’s only two-dimensional. I can nest and group feeds into folders, but the result is just one list of current articles. I can’t do anything else with the list. Google Reader has tags too, but that’s a separate view that I can’t combine with the first approach.
Del.icio.us is better, but only incrementally. I can see tags in a cloud or a list. Plus, del.icio.us uses color and size to give me more information without as much clutter. These “bumps” in the cloud are like another dimension, but they are still static. I can navigate into the cloud, but I can’t really manipulate (perform any operations) on the whole set.
To me, it’s the ability to manipulate the result that’s essential. Like the Kayak Airfare site. Their design uses controls to refine the the results of a search to focus on what I want. I like that, but I don’t travel as much as I used too.
I look at a large set of feeds and think about dissecting it to find my “mental blog space“. That’s what I’m interested in, not reading ALL 10,000 at one time. What I want is set operations: intersection, union, and search on groups of things. I want to use both predefined as well as my own tags and have various controls to manipulate the entire group as a whole, and share the result with others.
Oh well………
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