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I have a couple of hundred RSS feeds that I subscribe too. Are there any readers or solutions that let me train what articles I do and don't like, kind of like a Bayesian spam filter?

For example I'm interested in about 1% of postings on Engadget so I don't really want to create my own rules manually.

http://www.feedzero.com/ looked promising but it seems to be down a lot. http://www.bayesnews.xpg.com.br/ doesn't seem to work.

Update: This doesn't have to be a web app solution. For example I tried Thunderbird's RSS feature, but the spam filter in Thunderbird doesn't seem to filter the RSS feeds.

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How I wish google reader would have some (any) kind of filtering ... – Rook Sep 13 '10 at 13:17
This is more appropriate for the Web Apps site -- see Google Reader related questions there: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-reader I've got an answer I think you'll like, but I can't vote to close this question and get rep here. – Doug Harris Sep 13 '10 at 13:44
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Related: superuser.com/questions/93403/… @Matthew – Sathya♦ Sep 13 '10 at 15:32
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I don't think this is off-topic, nor a dupe. It's about software to read RSS feeds, and while that could be via a webservice it doesn't have to be, and any form of Bayesian filtering is based on a probabilistic classifier, so is not the same as just advanced/regex/etc filtering rules. @Doug I'm interested in seeing your answer, I use a Bayesian Filterer for sorting my email and trimming spam and it works rather well, so I think this could be interesting. – DMA57361♦ Sep 16 '10 at 9:44
Fair enough. I would withdraw my vote to close, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. – Doug Harris Sep 16 '10 at 13:54
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Google reader has something like this built in:

A third option, Sort by magic will rank items by "magic." Personalized magic ranking is automatically generated, taking into account your past reading behavior (including liking and starring) and global signals. We'll do our best to display items in the most relevant and interesting order -- click the Like button on things you think are important or enjoy reading, and we'll learn to put items like that first.

from: https://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69980

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That might be great! – Matthew Lock Sep 17 '10 at 1:07
This really looks nice, I wonder if it will work right though... – Tom Wijsman Oct 9 '10 at 12:03
I've been trying it for a couple of weeks, but it's hard to say if it's working or not – Matthew Lock Oct 14 '10 at 1:32
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This isn't 100% relevant, and I'm not sure how closely this would match your needs, but have you looked at Fever?

Fever reads your feeds and picks out the most frequently talked about links from a customizable time period. Unlike traditional aggregators, Fever works better the more feeds you follow.

It does seem to do some sort of filtering, but it appears to be automated, and doesn't allow you to do the filtering yourself. The price is also quite steep considering you have to host it yourself, in addition to the $US30 price.

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I ended up using Yahoo Pipes to filter my RSS feeds based on rules. It's not as a good a solution as Bayesian filtering but it at least lets me include/exclude feed items based on some criteria. I then consume the filtered feeds in Google Reader.

I'm also using DASL Filter SQL in Outlook to filter RSS feeds:

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