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."

Comments

If Only ...

[nxtr]

If only they could get the AI to do the work I'm missing out when I'm reading RSS feeds.

Potentially scary side-effects already.

[gethoht]

There are some companies out there(i.e. http://www.collectiveintellect.com/) that are using AI to mine RSS feeds and specifically the blogosphere, and selling that data to corporations for various reasons.

Lets say you're a drug company that is releasing a potentially controversial drug. You can mine the data of the blogosphere and issue press releases as a pre-emptive strike to larger media stories. This starts the real beginning of being able to effectively monitor and even potentially control some of the social aspects of the internet. I think it's a great innovation indeed, with potentially scary side-effects.

Personally it is nice to be able to filter through a billion RSS feeds to find information that I'm interested in though.