back and he’s on his
“”automated ways to find new and interesting people” kick”
and the results are, er, interesting:
“By looking at the sites I currently read in my
homegrown news aggregator, looking them up in the blogging
ecosystem and seeing which sites they link to, weighing them
slightly by popularity (based on the natural log of their incoming
links) but also dividing by the number of other sites they link to
(because a midlist site that only links to a handful of people is
more relevant than a popular site that links to 100), and filtering
out sites that don’t have RSS feeds (plus a few I already know I
don’t want to read), I came up with a list of recommended new
reading.”