aideRSS - Now things are getting smarter
This is clever. AideRSS is an smart RSS filterer gives just the Good, Great, Best or Top 20 posts given any RSS Feed. How does it measure quality? Well, since it can't really measure quality it infers it indirectly by creating a metric based on the number of del.icio.us bookmarks, diggs, Blogger references, Technorati references, Google BlogSearch reference, IceRocket references and a few others.
Of course, this assumes your blog is being read because it's interesting and these external references are a quantitative metric that implies quality. There, of course, are lots of great blogs with great content that haven't been discovered yet, but this is still a pretty neat way to apply these metrics.
So what do they do with these numbers? They create alternative feeds that you can subscribe to in lieu of the blog's main feed so as to just read about the "great posts" or "just the hits." Sounds like a great idea, but then you'd miss all the posts about my kids!
Here is one of their active widgets showing me the percentage of my posts that don't suck (so say their metrics. ;) )
Check it out. (Yes, "well recieved" is incorrectly spelled in their Javascript widget. If it's not anymore, it's because they fixed it.)
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I want to read 100% of the posts on a blog with <15 velocity (i.e. Hanselman, ScottGu, Atwood, Spolsky, etc).
PWills, you can control the level of filtering on a per blog basis (different then from the screen shot above). So you choose to apply no filtering to Scott's blog for example but only allow the Great Posts from Engadget.
Closing my splog tag now :-)
wTicker allows me to give TiVo-like "thumbs-up" or "thumbs-down" to blog posts, and using a Bayesian algorithm like many spam blockers, prioritize my blog reading.
The really cool thing is that it's based completely on my own tastes. This feature of AideRSS is cool, but it's got the fundamental assumption that the popularity in the grand scheme of thinks matches my own personal insanity well enough to predict my interest.
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It's amazing to think that by simply typing a blog address into their tool, you are quickly supplied with some very neat statistics, all without touching your blog. AideRSS is doing everything from the "outside" which is incredible! Compare that with FeedBurner or Google Analytics where you have to do something to your blog/site to get it to work properly. Simply amazing.