From: andrew cooke <andrew@...>

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:12:14 -0300

Disclaimer: I realise I am an unsociable bastard. And that it may be "just me" - in which case this makes no sense. And I guess it offends that kind of "be positive" American sensibility (which I know is one of your strengths, even if I find it creepy). But damn there are a lot of idiots out there. I read stuff in various places and I think, "must remember not to bother with them". But then I forget. So I want the inverse of an RSS feed, or a Twitter subscription: I want something that tracks people I don't want to be bothered with. And then filters them out. The result might, for example, grey-out their comments on web sites. I can see various technical difficulties: detecting persistent identities across multiple sites; associating content with particular people on multiple sites; modifying HTML on sites with unknown structure. But I can also see that we're getting close to this been possible: single sign on is a big help; people seem to be getting better at interpreting social relationships and constructing social graphs. So, is this possible? Is anyone going to build it? Andrew