speaking of tagging and threads..
Ben Hyde has some interesting ideas over on his blog:
I wish I had tools to filter some of the feeds that I read so that I could filter them better. For example if I subscribe to Mr. Diverse Interests I want to setup filters so that I get those of his postings that overlap my diverse interests. Doc. Searls for example thinks about lots of stuff; but I’m only interested in a portion of that stuff.
One idea, among many, is draw on the work of the tagging hordes. Intersecting my the tag cloud of my interests with the tag cloud of others. An approach like this helps with the UI problems. The filtering software could present me with a source’s tag cloud and I can toggle those for white/black listing. The neat thing that’s hidden in here is that we can probably build two models – one of the reader and one of the writer – and then intersect them. The model built can, of course, draw on various sources of the meta data: tagging, text analysis, link graph analysis, semantic web, etc. etc.
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