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This is a job our...Too many RSS feeds? Put ’em on probation By: Merlin Mann (11 replies) October 14, 2005 - 4:35am
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This is a job our computers should be doing for us. Aggregators should tally up all the link clicks for each individual feed, average it out over the number of entries that feed gets, and suggest unsubscribing from the bottom 5% every week or so.
Alternatively, have “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” icons to click when you like an entry or dislike an entry. The first method is vulnerable to unsubscribing from feeds that have 10 poor entries but one fantastic one.