In looking at various RSS aggregation services and products, I have yet to find one that would automatically learn what news I like and begin to filter down the content to that which has a higher probability of also being liked by myself.
The closest thing is in Google News where it shows you stories that you might like, however this does not take in to consideration two things:
- Incoming RSS feeds that you may want it to consider.
- Any respect for the frequency that you may access such a list.
Google Reader does allow you to add additional RSS feeds, however it still works like a traditional news reader. Continue to add more RSS feeds daily, and it will just get more bloated with feeds until you have to at some point go back and manually delete feeds no longer of interest.
In addition, many of these aggregators will have no respect to the frequency that you view them. If you view your news only once a week and only click a few articles, then it should only show you a few articles from the week. On the other hand, if you view a new article a day, then perhaps it should list one or two new articles each day.
An ideal RSS aggregation service would be one where you could add as many RSS feeds to ‘seed’ the system, and never again have to manage a list of said feeds. In addition, the service would use the seeds of RSS feeds from others to also find interesting content. Then, it would aggregate this content and prioritize content you would be most likely interested in based on your past viewing trends. In addition, the service would keep track of the frequency in which you use the service and how many articles you would view on each visit, to tailer the list of content each time you visited.
