At lunch today, I read a new paper from Microsoft Research about creating smarter blogrolls. While it seems that blogrolls have fallen a bit out of favor by most bloggers, I do think there are some very good ideas in the paper.
Currently, Reader, our RSS aggregator uses the river-of-news approach to showing what's going on within your feeds. It also has a side panel with the names of the blogs that have been updated along with the number of new posts. I could easily see additional information being presented which would have possible topics of these posts. Since we crawl the feeds, we have access to the text and we should utilize it more to help folks quickly scan for possible interesting topics.
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