Filters to filter filters

The amount of interesting information available to us far exceeds the time we have to consume it. Most of us have developed ways of dealing with this problem, but most of those approaches tend to be individual, i.e., ignoring emails on the assumption that if it is really important someone will phone us to complain, or throwing the whole of the unread Sunday Times into the recycling bin, just to get it off the table.

However, there may be a better way of dealing with the problem, by involving collective intelligence. This is certainly what the guys at AideRSS.com are hoping. They have developed a service which ranks blog posts based on how interesting or important they are. The ranking is automatic, and uses metrics calculated on things such as the number of comments a post has received. You can read more about the service here

What intrigues me is whether, for those of us interested in creativity, we really want the interesting posts or whether we actually need the less popular and more 'surprising' entries, which would probably not be selected by this method. Tim Morley was talking about exactly this topic here