Alex Payne:
I’m not sure what the solution is here. Feed readers as we’ve known them are dying, but it’s as yet unclear what will take their place. Filtering feeds for relevance algorithmically seems all but fruitless; filtering through the social graph is only a slight improvement, but misses the rare content that may only strike a chord with a small audience.
The stream of information that feed readers like Fever are trying to wrangle is becoming too overwhelming, making the content that we really want much harder to find. Like Payne, I do think there’s more ways to the future of feed readers than we think—ways that I hope will alliviate this overload.