A while ago Smetty made an inspiring post about the need to clean out your digital closet. It’s true, when you open up your feed reader and there’s (1000+) posts waiting for you, it feels like there’s piles and piles of unread magazines lying in your back yard, crying out to you about wasted trees. It’s stressful.

So I axed the feeds i hadn’t read for more than 2 weeks, and i sorted out the rest (‘mark as read’ figured prominently).

Which brings me to my subject of today: i’m participating to the beta testing of AideRSS Google Reader Firefox add-on. Whatsit ? It’s a classifier of posts. It gives a rating to every post in your feed reader.

I haven’t figured out what the parameters are yet: the number of comments on the post, the SEO positioning, the del.icio.usness seem to play a role, but there might be other, less obvious factors.

At any rate, i love the idea (in fact i already thought of the idea, but it’s all in the execution), and i’m going to give it a good go. A program that filters out your feeds based on what you’ll find interesting – if it really works – means more time for the really good stuff.

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