I haven’t been very charitable to Attention Trust in the past, nor paid too much attention to it, but today I read a post from Nick Bradbury explaining a possible use involving OPML that makes sense: ranking feeds by user attention:

We need a way to rank feeds that makes sense across aggregators, so that when you export OPML from one aggregator, the aggregator you import into would know which feeds you’re paying the most attention to. This could be used for any number of things - recommending related feeds, giving higher ranked feeds higher priority in feed listings, etc.

Sort of like TiVo trying to figure out what movies we like by what we watch and record. Is it time to pull the fork out of Attention Trust?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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