Bindu's Repose

Use "spam filtering" to sort news feeds

Simple idea... use Basian (or similar) filtering to classify newsfeeds (see Feedster, FeedDaemon, etc) Basically you just need to keep track of a similar number of news stories that you are interested in vs. ones that don't do it for you... Train the filter with this information and (then let it rip on classifying your news items for you.)

You end up with very high level control based on the feeds that you subscribe to, and then much finer control based on filtering... Seems a little better than the categorization thing folks are doing now... mostly you probably don't care what category a news item is in, if it is interesting...