"Yep. And it never figured out how to handle high-vol and low-vol blogs together in any meaningful way". What I always thought but was never able to articulate so well (hi again fellow twitter user).
An app that would let me dump all high volume blogs and Twitter into the same bucket would be awesome!
I guess a unified service that usefully filtered low S/N ratio feeds of all kinds would be awesome.
That's what google reader did for me, I subscribe to twitter feeds through RSS, label them (and other high-volue blogs) with a tag "noise", so I can easily mark them all as read.
Of course, Twitter is trying to kill RSS too, subscribing to new feeds doesn't seem to work.
What about a cloud-based app that kept synced across your devices? I wonder if it would be possible to create a client that would let you quickly read Twitter, app.net and feed content, and filter the latter two? (So long as you stay below the 100,000 user mark?)
some people post rarely, and they often have very high quality well thought out posts. others are media outlets or blabber mouths.
you can balance them by presenting a feed of what is new, moving each item through the "what's new" section at a speed relative to that feed's post frequency.
so a feed that posts rarely would have its new items persist in the new area for a longer time.
a feed that posts 20 times a day would move its posts through the new area each day.
> it's pretty easy to put all your high volume stuff into a single category so you can mark everything read at once
I have thousands of subscriptions. I'm not going to take the time to judge and separate them. this is a job for a computer.