The “River of News” view simulates a single news feed, regardless of how many feeds you subscribe to.

With this view we use Predictive Ranking to intelligently predict which subscriptions and articles will be most important. We also allow users to manually rank feeds by simply dragging and dropping the subscription.

Other RSS readers are just starting to integrate user attention into their RSS readers – something Attensa incorporates into all of it’s RSS readers.

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Cyndicate does sound interesting, and I’m considering trying it out for a bit. We will see.

Though Cyndicate uses none of the same code as PulpFiction, the general concept as well as its authors are the same. Some have said of both Cyndicate and PulpFiction that they treat your feeds like email, and that’s true to some extent. But it’s not quite the full story. A blog entry I wrote three years ago still applies.

I also feel obligated to point out that Cyndicate uses a Bayesian filter to automatically rate individual articles as well. In my own tests as well as those of our beta testers and early users, the rating system is incredibly accurate and can be incredibly useful. Since you can filter or use smart folders based on ratings, you can set up a folder of 4- and 5-star articles, your “must-reads” so to speak. Nobody else does ratings.

And then there’s the issue of http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?p=203

Indeed. I can confirm Newsfire can do this with smart feeds.

You are describing exactly how smart feeds work in every other RSS app. I can make a Hockey smart feed that collects all articles with “hockey” in the title or content. I can do the same for football.

mdmunoz, the readers you mentioned don’t do what Greg was talking about. He might not have been completely clear in his description though. What he is talking about is that with Cyndicate’s filtering system you can subscribe to say espn and SI’s feeds. Then create a filter that will only move articles that contain “football” or “hockey” in either their title or the article’s body to the football and hockey folders. You’re not moving the entire feed, just individual articles. This allows you to automatically separate the types of news items that you’re most interested in. It really helps on feeds that have a high noise ratio.

“This methodology took me a little time to get used to, and it probably will for you as well. If you have primarily used NetNewsWire or another reader for all your RSS reading needs, Cyndicate could be a big change, but can pay off in the end.”

Pretty sure NewsFire, NetNewsWire, and Vienna all do this.