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In RawSugar each tag bundle or folder of tags has its own URL…this is great as you can view the latest bookmarks within a set of tags, this is a River of News topic stream.

It’s like splicing several feeds into a merged feed, and presenting it into a topic stream.

The beauty of it is that within the one account you can have multiple topic streams, one for each tag bundle/folder.

The difference between this and traditional newsmastering is that you are populating the contents of this portal via collecting bookmarks, it’s not being automatically populated by someone else’s feeds…the only type of feeds allowed in your RawSugar account are RawSugar feeds.

Each tag in your topic stream has a feed, and the whole topic has a spliced feed
…each topic could have an OPML URL Reading List

Your whole account has a feed, therefore your whole account could have a mega OPML URL Reading List (made from each topic OPML URL)

For other types of Newsmastering see SuprGlu, Blogdigger Groups, MySyndicaat, etc…

This is a list of the different ways I would like to view posts and data in my personal RSS Reader

Views

DATE
(traditional)

…also in reverse (oldest to newest posts, like Bloglines)

FREQUENTLY READ
(sorts feeds based on which ones you read often, eg. Rojo and many others)

RELEVANCY
(rank the latest unread posts based on your reading behaviour, ie, voting, clickthroughs, tagging, flagging, emailing, etc…see Rojo, Attensa, etc…)

POPULARITY
(rank the latest unread posts by incoming links…see OPML Sampler)

…based on your OPML or the whole blogosphere

WORD BURSTS
(a tag cloud driven by text analysis, ie. if the term “folksonomy” has been used 80 times from feeds in your OPML, you click on the word in the cloud, and see all the unread posts who have used that word…see TagCloud, and Personal Bee)

NATIVE TAG
(a tag cloud where all unread posts are collated according to the tag the native posts have attached to them)

FILTER
(read your subscriptions based on search terms, or filter out posts with a certain term…see GreatNews…Web RSS Reader, and Orijinn do this at the feed level)

This is different than smart feeds, or creating a search feed for your subscriptions, the idea is not to create a new feed that is filtered, but filter the feed as part of your subscription process, or otherwise filter the whole folder/tag, or your whole account.

Although I do like how Bloglines lets you create search feeds for your subscriptions (some Boolean operators would be great), and to be able to select feeds, folders for your search.

OUTGOING LINKS
- by outgoing links, like Rojo already does, but make it look more like Chuquet
(also at the tag level, based on the tags used on the native posts)

This is a list of the all the links people refer to in their blog posts (via blogs from within your OPML)
…what sites are being linked to the most from your subscriptions, each item lists the blogs that refered to them
(this can be based on all time, last year, month, week, day, hour, etc…)

PERSONAL TOP 50

Sort by: most read (click through’s), saved, flagged, incoming links
(eg. According to your OPML, contacts, whole Rojo Community, or based on the whole blogosphere)

Sort by: hour, day, week, month, 3 month, 6 month, year, all time

Top 50 Feeds (these can even be categorised by their tags)

- spliced feed, even at the tag level
- OPML URL (Reading List), even at the tag level

Top 50 Stories (these can even be categorised by their tags)

- spliced feed, even at the tag level
- OPML URL (List of Links), even at the tag level

…even Top Tags.

Conversation

Incoming links from your OPML or from the blogosphere for each post…see FeedFlare

…also show comments

…also show tags for that post in blogosphere and bookmark engines

Also I’d like to see threading features like on SharpReader based on these outgoing links, ie. if any unread/read posts in your RSS Reader have a common outgoing link with your present post, then list it under the present post.

No matter which view above, for every item in my RSS Reader I would like to see similar items as the one I’m viewing, based on my OPML (my subscriptions) or based on the blogosphere…these similar/related items would be generated by identifying common words in posts titles or some context analysis from the body of a post…not sure how Waypath Related or Memeorandum do this…Clippr (a prototype RSS Reader) has this on its planned feature set.

A voting feature for each item would also help to make viewing posts by relevancy more accurate.

Here is a post on recommendations in your RSS Reader.

Via a comment on an earlier post I have come across the tagosphere…the idea for me is to have a meta-search engine for bookmarks, as Technorati has for blogs

…not sure what services the Tagosphere actually searches in.

There are many social bookmark services to cover and a lot these days are becoming very specific eg. 43 things, flickr, Reader2, MOG, connotea, citeulike, youtube, etc (see more at supr.c.ilio.us)…and more.
…so maybe you could limit again to the type of bookmark service you would like to search in, or select services you don’t want in your search.

The general bookmark services that are essential:

del.icio.us
shadows
furl
spurl
netvous
simpy
blinklist
rawsugar
myweb2.0
clipmarks
wink
jots

A service that would search in all 12 of these engines at once would be a great human indexed web to challenge the current traditional search engines.

Not only has every page been chosen by users, but you have the bonus of searching by tag.

It won’t have the great coverage of traditional search engines but the quality is certainly less noisy, and the results can just the same be based on a PageRank type of relevancy, also weigh in the amount of times a URL has been bookmarked into the ranking score…and again there is the by product of searching by tag.

The basic difference is that sites in the index aren’t crawled, they are chosen by users…imagine Google searching in a user subset of the web (with frequency of bookmarks added to the PageRank method…as this is a vote for a webpage, similar to a citation reference).

Read more.

[ADDED: I forgot to add other similar type bookmark services such as Digg, Reddit, Shoutwire, 180 news, and many more
…even if these don’t have tagging, they are still bookmarks, but many are utilised to spread current news more than for personal bookmarking, some are also not only news based but also subject based such as SpinSpy.

So there is some consideration to be made:

- general bookmark service
eg. del.icio.us
- subject based bookmark service
eg. 43 things
- document type bookmark service
eg. citeulike, youtube, reader2, etc…
- bookmark voting service
eg. digg
- subject based bookmark voting service
eg. Spinspy]

[ADDED: RSS Reader bookmarks, such as Rojo]