Information should be able to search for me

Information on the Internet is produced in ways that make content relevant and accessible for consumers who seek it.  If you flip that upside down and find ways to make yourself relevant and accessible to publishers, then perhaps valuable content would come to you.

If I declare the kinds of explicit relationships that I trust for information to travel through, then the content items that matter to me coming from feeds that I trust should be able to travel that trusted road to my desktop or device of choice.

Technorati, Feedster and Pubsub have all tried variations on this theme with their RSS search tools, but the premise of their systems is still based on indexing and search queries.  Technorati’s use of tags is useful, but, in fact, I shouldn’t even need Technorati’s style of intermediation because those tags are already posted at the point of content creation.

The intermediation that would make this work would be a system where RSS feeds from information sources, microformat data and explicit relationship data would be channeled directly from the information source to relevant consumers.  It would be kind of like invitation-only spam.

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