> If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs...
10 feeds will not give you much recall. I have 50K+ feeds, 1M+ posts, and it just starts to give somewhat respectable results.
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#192> If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs... 10 feeds will not give you much recall. I have 50K+ feeds, 1M+ posts, and it just starts to give somewhat respectable results.
Have you dumped your feed list anywhere?
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#193> If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs... 10 feeds will not give you much recall. I have 50K+ feeds, 1M+ posts, and it just starts to give somewhat respectable results.
Have you dumped your feed list anywhere?
No. but you can try the search here:
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
rss is the advertising. It allows me to conveniently keep track of tens of thousands of websites. If you don't have a feed, no problem. Ill just read something else. With few exceptions I can't be bothered to keep looking at a web page hoping something new has happened.
RSS advertises the content , but not the actual sponsors of such content (i.e. commercial ads). It's also pretty hard to make it track readers. That's why the likes of Meta and Google just don't like it.
you want to advertise your sponsors in your advertising??
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No I totally know it's in ascent, that's my point! Haha! :) How do you "know" this? Show some proof! RSS has two well-known use cases: news and podcasts. It is fighting a pitched battle against players with deep pockets who want you to consume content where they can monetize it with ads. Google Reader survived for as long as it did because such a service is incredibly cheap to run. Google only ended it to push peop…
I agree with your view, but if we put down our old greybeard hats for a minute - isn't it nice to see a new generation of people potentially getting excited about RSS? The parent comment is clearly by an optimistic youngster, who has just discovered an awesome technology that (he thinks) could change the world. And maybe it can! Just because we've seen it beaten once (well, a few times), it doesn't mean it's dead, an…
I keep wanting to build a PICS rating service and (humorously) add it to my feeds.
The use as parential control is clutter to me. The referring to content selection as filtering was a terrible idea.
The content labels can exist on a different website, they can live in the html document and there is an rss element specifically for it.
You make up your own rating label and put a score behind it. There was an example for example that rated by canadiannes
https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-PICS-labels/#Example
As usual they spend a lot of words explaining something simple.
In its almost most simple form:
(PICS-1.1 "http://www.example.org/ratingservice" label for "http://www.example.com/foobar" rating (javascript 5 php 4 mysql 6 bloomfilter 10))
Looks a lot like hand crafted weights to me. If widely adopted you could make a fascinating tag cloud from your 100k rss subscriptions.