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Went Hot: August 11, 2007 - 2:58 pm
Posted By: AndyBeard 331 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: News Sites
As the Sphinn user base increases, finding the wheat among the chaff becomes more time consuming.
In the future Sphinn will allow some sort of filtering based upon your friends, but what can you do now to maximize the signal to noise ratio?
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I think those are features more for highly active Sphinn users.
The aim of the article wasn't to list every possible way of finding out about news stories, but to highlight the best ways to find the information specific to your needs.
The article started off just as an attempt to highlight Danny's comment, because many of those "bubbling under" stories deserve to reach the front page and often don't.
I think this was a great set of solutions to the real problem of making sure you get the richest set of Sphunn items that work for you. I particularly like the suggestion of checking what one of your active friends has Sphunn.
The point is that you can't hope to catch every interesting article that is Sphunn. However if you dip a number of 'nets' into that churning throng of fish, you'll turn up a goodly number of winners for you that make the visit worth while.
I wish there was a way to ignore those from the most popular sphinners. They are usually just pushing their own sites. If I wanted to see that I'd subscribe to their feed. The real ones point to others sites. Pretty simple: A link from your own link network shouldn't count as much as a real link from someone you've never met, the same should go for Sphinn.