it would probably be intrusive...

[ratcreature]

...but sometimes I think it would be cool if journalling sites had a function to "suggest me a new journal to read" not a random one, but a suggestion based on your current subscriptions, interests, maybe on some kind of other fuzzy, internal data-mining (the aforementioned "intrusive" part). I'm not sure how these things work, but like what Amazon does when it suggests books to you (sometimes they even suggest me interesting things, though that one is hit and miss, even though I actually tried to refine it manually) or that online music thing, Pandora?, that tries to guess what your tastes music are (that wasn't bad, though I couldn't use it for long, because eventually these location blocks happened). Anyway, something more advanced than the "popular among your friends" feature that LJ offered (offers? I can never really find that on the site anymore), and you could refine its suggestions.

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[ratcreature]

On the one hand I just think it would be neat if something combined all this, and could maybe learn from it when I accepted or rejected some suggestion to figure out which interests are of more importance to me. On the other hand it would be a truly creepy level of social tracking, and I'm not sure would want LJ or any blogging site evaluate the info I provide by using their site this closely and put it all together.

Butthen whenever it happens that maybe a couple of people on my reading list have gone silent and I think "hmm, I wonder whom else I could add for regular reading" and you end up doing all kinds of things manually, like browsing friends-of-friends, interests, communities, friending memes, and I wish I could just click a button, have a computer do this for me and present me with a couple of suggestions I could take a look at.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Exactly.