PubSub Launches Community Lists
Michael Arrington
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PubSub launched a new product today called “Community Lists“. They’ve taken topic specific feeds from experts and have ranked the feeds according to their LinkRanks algorithm.
There are four lists currently and my understanding is that they plan to expand the number greatly in the near future. The current Lists:
The feeds from each list are availabe in opml format, and they’ve created an aggregate RSS feed for each list as well.
This is a great example of Reading Lists - edited, dymanic opml feed lists. It can also be compared to Technorati’s Blog Finder, which ranks related feeds as well. The difference is that Technorati relies on publisher tags to determine content topic for a blog, whereas Pubsub relies on a human expert to determine which feeds should be included.
See Library Stuff for more information. Steven Cohen, who writes Library Stuff, is PubSub’s Senior Librarian.
This is great I guess. They need more lists. Where’s the Techcrunch list?
I feel personalization should be take a higher ground than list-editors.
I would never subscribe to this methodology because it reminded me of that VH1 one-hit wonder show. I remember that show profiled several bands (Modern English for example) that actually had great albums I found better than the one that hit the pop charts.
People using online services should be considered individuals with a right to their preference, not subscribing to some list-editor opinion….
Just my rant.