Journal: Has the RSS/Blog vine become overloaded and redundant?

Has the RSS/Blog vine become overloaded with redundant references?

If you Slashdot it, Digg it or Blog it, eventually you find yourself rereading the same subject matter in multiple places.

Has the time come for an AI driven Metablog, the one blog to rule them all?

I am suggesting that the duplication of stories is reducing the filtering value of blogs and that tools need to be created to collect RSS feeds into a single customised feed for the user to scan. In the same way that sites like Digg rate stories the Feed Filter (or is that Filter Feeder?) can rate stories at the meta level by their accumulated scores over multiple sources. It should also be able to find the link to the original information and present this link to the user so that they may click through directly. Each RSS feed story could benefit from more meta data been associated with it too.

Sorting out the economics of this in a fair and reasonable manner may be tricky as a Metablog would bypass the individual blog layer and thus reduce their advertising income.

Are we anywhere near to having such functionality in feed readers? What are my smart filtering options now and what do you see happening in the future as blog redundancy accelerates out of control? What tools do we have now and which are still to be created to assist in the knowledge management aspects of blogs? What are your preferred ways of archiving and retrieving stories that were of value to you?

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