I read 100 feeds daily. The number fluctuates a bit. It has gone as high as 150 and as low as 75 but 100 seems to be my sweet spot. I also keep track of various pieces of data with a My Yahoo! page as well as an EarthLink Personal Start Page. Neither of these two portal pages are exactly what I want nor is adding more RSS feeds to my aggregator for things like stocks and sports scores a solution.
In my perfect world, I want a hybrid of the two. I want a single page I can hit or keep open which will have the data I need at that moment. I will still be reading all of my feeds and looking at other data but there is some data which I want to know about right away.
For example, I follow many sports teams but generally I'm only interested in the score of the Cubs in real-time. So if I hit my aggregation page during a Cubs game, I want to see the score and possibly some other metadata right away. In the same way, if I'm on the look out for blog posts on certain topics, I would want those to also be on the top.
Basically, I would want my single page to be dynamic and flexible. Something which I can script to show me the data I'm most interested at that time. I don't know of anything that does this currently but I am looking. And if it turns out, I need to help build it, so much the better.
Posted by Josh at March 8, 2005 09:29 AM | TrackBack