PersonalizedBlogReading

ThoughtStorms Wiki

Interesting debate going on about how to personalize your blog-reading experience.

DannyAyers : http://dannyayers.com/archives/2006/02/15/personalised-filtering/

Comment I made here : http://sdi.thoughtstorms.info/?p=475

At some point we realize that some of our information consumption has to be a “minority game”.

The winners will be those who know things that other people don’t. That’s what makes you valuable to other people. Being an expert in the top ten most known topics makes you worth what?

By definition, there’s no algorithm which can give this to you. You need to cultivate your own tastes and ideosyncrasies. Your outlier blogs.

Don’t worry about being the first to follow the fashions. Something which is number one on memeorandum or digg today (and is actually important) will probably turn up on one of your regular blogs within a week. So decide how you’ll trade-off your own personal timeliness for personal individuality.

This is a TradeOffs ... between common knowledge and individual knowledge.