So I'm pretty much done with phase one of my RSS project for Individual.com (The url to the site is http://www.individual.com/, we're working on making it so http://individual.com/ also works). The initial goal is to have custom feeds of news based on topic. So, I have a few feeds that I use right now in NetNewsWire. One issue that's sitting in the back of my mind right now is that some of these feeds are huge. I currently have them set to only work give the news the past 24 hours in the feed, but even then it's a few hundred articles in the course of a day. For users of things like Radio, this could be complete overload. One solution I thought of was only including the last n stories and have that be a value people can set. Lots of interesting things to think about here. Oh, and if anyone wants to test this out, drop me a line and I'll get you set up to use it (warning, it is more than a bit kludgy at this point). The picture on the left is a snapshot of one of the topics in NetNewsWire.
