Bloglines Splicer -- An Improvement On Bloglines Shuffler

I have created a new and improved web application called the Bloglines Splicer that arranges your unread feed items in a new way: the first item is shown for each feed, then the second item is shown for each feed, then the third for each feed, and so forth. This way, your feedreading is distributed evenly among all your feeds -- a great help if you are under time constraints (imposed by yourself or by your circumstances).

Contrast this with Bloglines' default alphabetical sort (which favours feeds named with the early letters A, B, C, ...) or its Sort By Number Unread (which favours the larger feeds). With the Bloglines Splicer, you can walk away from the computer at any time knowing that you have reviewed all of the feeds to the best of your ability, given the time constraints.

For example, suppose Slashdot has 5 unread items, Populicious has 20 unread items, and CNet has 10 unread items. The Bloglines Splicer will present the items to you in the following order: S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C P C P C P C P C P C P P P P P P P P P P.

So head on over to the Bloglines Splicer and try it out!


Notes:

• Yesterday's attempt, the Bloglines Shuffler, favours feeds with more unread items because it simply shuffles the items and presents them to you. In contrast, the Bloglines Splicer does not have this bias -- it gives equal preference to each feed.
• Clicking the "Mark All As Read" link will tell Bloglines to mark all items as read, even items that have arrived after Bloglines Splicer has generated its results. So if you are concerned about missing items that arrive while you are reading the results, be sure to click it before you read rather than after (right-click and pick Open In New Window, so you won't lose the current results). On the other hand, if you're like me and don't care about missing a few items, you can happily ignore this.