There are lots of RSS readers out there, but they just flood you with a big list of all the posts from the site to date. For those of us who are time-starved, but still like to keep in touch in a passive way (meaning not regularly going through your RSS reader like your inbox), this is overwhelming.
What I want this reader to do is, whenever I have some time to catch up, show me the top X posts (using whatever criteria) from the blog for a specific time period. This period could be a day, a week or a month! By this way, even if I took a long break, I could still catch up and feel not being left out!
Are there any apps like this out there?
Best Answer
Have you looked at Google Readers 'sort by magic' feature;
http://www.gtricks.com/google-reader-tricks/what-is-sort-by-magic-in-google-reader/
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/10/reading-gets-personal-with-popular.html
Hope this helps.