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NiloCK 4 days ago

I sort of love this, but immediately wonder about curation.

My feeds are pretty unpredictable - sometimes I have 40 new articles in a day, sometimes just a few. The cheapness of digital consumption and interface makes it viable for me to skim titles and read, defer, or dismiss at my judgement. I don't want the entire feed printed out - not viable.

But if some SaaS is curating my feeds for me, I fear it'll turn into another algorithmized something optimizing for what exactly? At least the first-pass filter is explicitly set by me - feeds I subscribe to.

Curious to hear your thoughts on it, and wishing you luck.

kevstev 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah- I get about 300 new items each day in my feed... of which on average about 1% of those are worth reading the full article. There is a lot of duplication as well- many sites will cover a new gadget announcement, but only need to read one to get the full scoop. Printing this would be overwhelming- and many of those sites are summaries of "source documents" (papers, release notes, etc) that I want to jump to.

I am sure people use RSS in many different ways though, it just doesn't seem useful to me.

oDot 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You got it exactly right, curation and typesetting are the most challenging aspects of it. Experimenting with different solutions...

kelvinjps10 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe you first get the summary on your phone and you decide what to be printed?