Put a Filter on Dave Winer’s RSS

February 22nd, 2008 by Bullshit Mancuso

In Slate, Paul Boutin explains one of the weaknesses of RSS:

… my RSS reader is only as smart and attentive as I am. It hasn’t figured out that I’ve stopped reading 14 of the 15 Wired.com feeds I subscribed to when I worked there last year. It can’t tell that I only care for about one in 20 of Dave Winer’s nonstop posts, and it has no way of guessing which one that will be.

Boutin, a contributor to ValleyWag, seems to think that a new smart-filtering RSS reader called Persai can handle the herculean task of figuring out which of Winer’s weblog posts is worth a read.

One Response to “Put a Filter on Dave Winer’s RSS”

  1. EyeOnWiner Says:

    I can already do that for all intents and purposes, really.

    These days: none of them.