RSS Filters

Today morning while reading this blog, from Piers Young, I started thinking about a possible solution to the information overload problem in RSS. People do subscribe lot of RSS feeds but its very hard to read each and every bit of information.

RSS Feeds especially blogs written by personal friends or people are just as personal like Emails. Even in case of public blogs, one might need to skim certain entries, but its hard to keep track of 100 or more feeds within an aggregator. One possible approach is to develop email like spam filters for filtering in RSS tools. In case there is there is excessive information from one particular feed, it can be filtered very easily.

So within my RSS Tool, I should be able to specify:
- Remove similar entries that have been read. (Dump them separately, so I can see if I want)
- Filter entries via keywords (Should be able to read unfiltered ones, if I want)
- Views based on Filters - Have a views like capability, where a tag view is created from entries that exist from within all subscribed RSS feeds.
- Person based view - All discussions and comments given by a person appear in a person view.
- View based Clustering of RSS feeds.

This might be one possible approach to solve the information overload within RSS atleast in the short run.