Clustering: Is This The Next Evolution Of RSS?
By Shel Holtz
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-07-08
I love RSS, but it has a ways to go before it hits its stride. I get way more information than I need in my channel groups.
For example, just today in my "Public Relations" folder, I got at least 15 iterations of an article about the resignation of Volkswagen's pesonnel chief, all stories appearing in different publications about the same event.
Jose Nazario aims to fix this problem with a technique he's developed called RSS clustering. His article about the process is fairly technical, but what it comes down to is an approach to news aggregators that will identify trends within retrieved content and help us manage the flood of information more effectively.
Whether this concept goes anywhere, is adopted through some other scheme, or is beaten to the punch by the attentionl.xml specification, only time will tell. But it's an interesting concept nonetheless.
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About the Author:
Shel Holtz is principal of Holtz Communication + Technology which focuses on helping organizations apply online communication capabilities to their strategic organizational communications.
As a professional communicator, Shel also writes the blog a shel of my former self.
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