A Feed Is Born

Your own attention feed?

by Vincent on January 4th, 2006

Leslie has a post about Attention and wants to combine Attention.xml with his Popular Links algorithm. The algorithm creates his own Popular Links feed (get the code) which basically scans all the current entries of all subscribed feeds for unique hyperlink URLs found in descriptions and summaries. It collates all entries by these links, then sorts by the number of entries under each link. A threshold is applied, filtering for links pointed to by 3 or more entries… At the end, a new feed entry is displaying the most linked-to things of the moment. Think of this as a kind of real-time PageRank (via josh).

I think this is great! Leslie is considering of making this script a full-on service: Upload an OPML export from your aggregator and get your own Popular Links feed. Combine it with some Attention.xml and there you go. I think we should encourage the project, and I do hope he stops blogging to save some time;)

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