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Smart FilteringWhy Are You Reading All That News? By: wood.tang (19 replies) December 11, 2007 - 8:41am
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Smart Filtering
What I really want in a news reader is a filter I can train. I want something like the Spam filters in Mail programs. On Mac OS X Leopard, this is exposed in the Latent Semantic Analysis framework: (http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/LSMSmartCategorizer/)
I want a little button that's "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" on any particular story in my feeds. Then after training the news reader for a while, I could imagine filtering by interest.
I don't see this as being any different from the spam problem in Mail readers. I want to filter out the interesting posts from the boring/useless ones.
It seems like the technology is there. Why haven't news readers implemented this kind of thing? (By the way, feel free to steal my idea. I'd switch news readers in a heartbeat if one offered this.)