And what direction is that, you may ask? Wayne Hodgins nails it when he describes ambient and informal information filtering. Without trying to trumpet my own horn too much, this is something I've talked about for a long time (remember the 'fishing rod that teaches you?'). Ambient and informal information filtering is "something to act as our personal agent to bring us more things which have a high probability of being relevant, while providing some tools and techniques that help us make better decisions faster." Hodgins sketches a few applications in the post - they're good applications, but I really hate the whole "we're completely novel and we will take RSS mainstream" approach, as though they invented the thing. As I point out in my comment, many people have worked for many years on this stuff. Sure, as Hodgins says in his reply, it may all be new to the crowd he is writing to. But let's try to keep a sense of perspective here.
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