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Tivo-like 'thumbs-up' for my aggregator?

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I build my blogroll while reading blogs – that is, when I follow a link to an interesting blog entry, and it appears that the owner talks about stuff I’m interested in, I’ll subscribe to that blog.

Now, sometimes I’m right, and I find the future entries very interesting.  Sometimes I’m wrong, and they are less so.  Since I have hundreds of subscriptions, I can’t really remember which ones are the ‘good’ ones and which ones are the, um, ‘less good’ ones.  (Of course, I have a few favorites that I recognize.)

What I’d like to be able to do is tell my aggregator (currently NewsGator), that “I like this entry – thumbs up on the feed”; or “this entry doesn’t interest me – thumbs down”.  The aggregator could keep a running tally of thumbs for each subscription, (and here is the best part) it could then sort the feeds by ranking.  Subscriptions that have historically been the most interesting to me would be at the top, and the others at the bottom.

This would also make it easier to trim my blogroll; I could just start at the bottom of the list and ask myself if I really want to continue each of those subscriptions.

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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    An interesting idea - but you'd probably have to implement categories in the rankings, in order to keep someone like me happy. I'd like to be able to mark them thumbs up or down, but also to specify the category that they are in, so when i'm interested in development stuff, i look at my development rankings, or when i'm interested in fun-random stuff, i look at that category.
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    I already implemented this in my web based aggregator which will be opened very soon. Stay tuned.
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    how about being able to track changes within a conversation in a particular blog entry... like this one. bueller?
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    Interesting idea. If you had a web-based system to track the ratings, it would be pretty easy to write a NewsGator extension to interface with it...
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    Vinnie, I get an e-mail every time someone adds a comment to my blog; so that's not a problem.
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    goodie for you :)

    I, meaning Vinnie, is interested in this conversation. I want to track it!
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    Vinnie, gotcha - perhaps the blog host could automatically send mail to every participant on a discussion thread. Alternatively, there could be a "subscribe to comments on this blog entry" button that would let folks opt in.
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    Vinnie, the easiest way to follow this particular conversation is to subscribe to the comment feed for this post:

    http://weblogs.asp.net/bwill/comments/commentRss/82127.aspx
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    Actually, this was something similar that I was adding to some blog software (ala .Text) that I am working on. It basically has a web service that you can call with the article ID and a rating (1 to 10, but could be a thumbs up/down thing).
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    I love the idea. I always thought of implementing this in PocketFeed: Basically, similar to iTunes or Windows Media Libary, where you could "rate" a feed. The higher the rating, it would bubble up to the top, etc.

    You could then do content filtering/searching like "favorite feeds", "feeds i havent hit in days', etc.
  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2004
    You've got my vote! Maybe when I get done with school, I would have time for this.

    On the other hand, since I'm sure that there are no other feature ideas for NewsGator, Greg will probably have it done by then :).
  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    +1
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