Comments on: Sort By Magic

By: pwscott

pwscott — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:54:52 +0000

As this is the first and sometimes the only blog I check, it may be out of date but I’m still getting it. Unlike Google I don’t think magic is involved at Neatorama.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:54:42 +0000

Cut some slack, please. Like what eni said, it is indeed a huge internet.

By: ozoozol

ozoozol — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:24:16 +0000

Agree. I hadn’t seen mention of this feature before, either. Not saying it wasn’t written about, but it flew completely under my radar. Good post.

By: Twpk

Twpk — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:41:26 +0000

@Parkylondon Nice idea the opml swap… I had been thinking something similar.
Tt would probably be better if it’s just a list of all sites; allowing you to read the blogs before subscribing to them.

By: eni

eni — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:28:19 +0000

I’ve not seen this before, either. It’s a huge internet out there. Seriously. Huge. Missing things like this is NOT as hard as it seems, dude.

By: dev

dev — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:23:31 +0000

I also subscribe to a good chunk of the top blogs, and no, it has not been mentioned on the ones I watch – I even confirmed this with a search in google reader.

Don’t rag on the blogger just because they didn’t spot this right away, or doesn’t subscribe to the same set of blogs you do. this isn’t slashdot. This is why I subscribe to this blog – it filters a lot of the crap from others down to legitimately neat stuff.

Thanks for the post, that’s cool.

By: cigrainger

cigrainger — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:55:12 +0000

@Parkylondon, yes it has. Multiple times.

It’s astounding to me that you just ‘found this’ by accident. This is old, old news that was all over tech blogs.

By: Parkylondon

Parkylondon — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:28:01 +0000

@cuprohastes – I subscribe to a bajillion feeds, including Google’s own feeds covering GReader and it’s not been mentioned.

By: Parkylondon

Parkylondon — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:25:42 +0000

I thinki what’s happening is that GReader is showing you the most Liked or Shared items in a given feed. Nice touch with the “Magic” though.

I am also interested in some of your feeds. Any chance you could publish an OPML feed so we can plug it in to our readers. Perhaps an OPML swap?

You’ll need to filter out the XXXlinksXXX label obv…

By: Cuprohastes

Cuprohastes — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:12:24 +0000

Seriously – a month after every other tech blog in the western world ran articles about this… you only just discovered Google’s Sort by Magic function by accident?
Given Neatorama basically just posts other blogs about a third of the time, how can you not know this?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:01:49 +0000

Interesting list! I will have to check out some of your feeds.