Using AI To Filter RSS Feeds

holden writes "According to a blog post, AideRSS has moved from closed to open beta. I've been using AideRSS over the past few weeks to filter my RSS feeds (including Slashdot and Reddit) and I've been quite impressed. They talk a bit about how the filtering system works, which apparently tracks a mixture of things, from pick-up in other blogs, to some clustering technology."

Some filtered RSS feeds

[holdenkarau]

I'm not sure if it is bad form to comment on your own story, but here goes anyways :). You can take a look at the scored version of the slashdot RSS feed here [aiderss.com], or del.icio.us [aiderss.com] or my (holden's) blog [aiderss.com]. There is also a really cool widget I've put on the side of my blog which lets people subscribe to only posts of a certain quality (you can look at it here [holdenkarau.com]).

Secret Sauce and GeoRSS

[Lord Satri]

From TFA: ""Some of that data we show on the site itself: Technorati, del.icio.us, etc. Essentially, we're interested in measuring the 'social engagement' of each post. To make this a little less hand-wavy, I think we'll agree that a bookmark is nice but a comment involves more work, a trackback even more so, etc. - hence, engagement). Once we have all this data, we apply our 'secret sauce', which comes in a form of statistical analysis with respect to the author's previous history/posts. PostRank is not a global score, it's with respect to the blogger him/herself.""

Secret sauce? Why do I prefer open sauce? ;-)

One other way to filter RSS is by geographic location through using GeoRSS [slashdot.org]. However, the source RSS must be offered in GeoRSS for this geolocalization filtering to work... but it's only a matter of time, we'll get there. (hey, even slash has a plugin that works for publishing GeoRSS)

Re:recursion

[jagdish]

So basically the situation would be unchanged.

Sux0r : Bayesian RSS filter and you can run it too

[Herve5]

http://www.nullwhore.com/sux0r/index.php?c=/0/logi n/ [nullwhore.com]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/ [sourceforge.net]
What I find interesting is, it is one of the verrry rare examples of 'internet 2' service that you can own yourself (instead of registering here or there for more ads or worse).
A downside of Sux0r is it seems not having evolved for a couple of years (but still works, possibly that's why :-)
I for one am desperately waiting for a *local* RSS agregator which would allow *me* (and not some site's AI) to Bayes-filter my selected feeds. I'm almost sure this will happenn sooner or later.

Re:Secret Sauce and GeoRSS

[bergie]

Geolocation is a possible additional filter (think "local news" section of a newspaper), but I guess most people are interested in items from their field of interest regardless of the physical location where the post was made.

I made some experiments [bergie.iki.fi] on a more open source version of the "secret sauce". It seems quite easy to determine relevance of posts using the various social news services out there.