[Sweet. I use a Caedmon's lyric as an allusive title, then talk about nothing involving them.]

I just had an idea based loosely on the house cleaning concept … a “rainy_day” tag for feeds. Y’know, feeds that I’d sit down and read if I had a rainy day. Many feeds like this, I find that I’ve subscribed for two reasons:

1. I’ve consistently seen other sites I like have some nuggets pulled from their archives.
2. I subscribed to them because of that, or from boredom, or to broaden my horizons, or because I’m interested in that subject when I have idle time.

But if I tag them “rainy_day”, and it’s sunny outside, I can scroll down to rainy_day, highlight the tag, wait a few seconds, then hit “Mark All As Read”, and go back on about my business.

This is the “a_list” idea in reverse, really. If there’s something really good in the “rainy_day” pile, chances are that someone I read is going to point to it, because it’ll be a rainy day for them. And if it’s sunshiny for all of us … well, too bad. I only have so much time in my day.

Just tossing that bit of meat out there for any interested.