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Adam Green and Anne Zelenka are talking about big reading lists.

I like Anne's filtering idea. She's fed an OPML file containing feeds on parenting into Megite, the new personalized Memeorandum.

I think Megite so far has used blogrolls to pare the world down to a user's little corner of it. But Anne's topic-based file lets her discover parenting feeds specifically. It also might give her ideas on category feeds to add to her list. I ran into the same problem Anne encountered when I was trying to draw up a list about literary adaptations. There just weren't any feeds devoted to the topic, but there were blogs having adaptation categories, and some of them offered category feeds.

As for the 5-10 feed reading list? I agree with Adam that list compilers shouldn't make decisions for users about how much information they can handle. He suggests posting the number of feeds along with a reading list link as fair warning. I'd suggest also estimating and reporting the number of daily posts the feeds might yield.

Also, to clarify, it's not my aggregator that stumbles when it gets fed a list yielding 1,500 posts; it's my brain.

Maybe there does need to be a couple different kinds of lists -- big ones to discover stuff for special information missions, and the smaller, more manageable lists to add to your daily diet of feeds. Hey, this is just getting started, right? We're all just making it up as we go along.