Accumulating Information

I was just looking at a page on the New York Times web site, and found the following tucked in the corner, under the heading Most Popular: Technology:

1. Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...
2. Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
3. Essay: Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise
4. If You Use Outlook E-Mail, Meet Xobni
5. Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo
6. News Analysis: A Step Back for Microsoft
7. After Deal Dies, Yahoo Weighs Its Next Move
8. At Kodak, Some Old Things Are New Again
9. State of the Art: TV Images to Dazzle the Jaded
10. Basics: How to Amplify Those Fading Bars

I glanced at it. The first one - yeah, I read that. Oh, the second one sounds interesting. Read the third already. And the fourth. Heard about the fifth, sixth, seventh. Don't care about the eighth. Moderate interest in the ninth. Whats ten about? Probably cell phones, though it'd be funny if it was about taverns.

I'd like a service that would track this what-to-read decision making and assist me, accumulating this kind of thing from multiple sources. It couldn't be my only source of information -- I rarely wake up and think 'gee, I'd like to read about AI today', but when I see it, I frequently stop and check it out, reading the non-technical ones, passing on the LISP-intensive ones -- but a tool like that would be a nice agglomerator. The linkage of such an agglomerator to social networking is obvious even to me, as are the basic difficulties -- finding a suitable community (X likes the same kind of AI article that I do, but that doesn't imply that I'll like X's taste in music); classifying the material (Is this a news page (it is the New York Times), or a Technology page, or Sociology? Obviously, an amalgam, and a different page that feels the same to me might not feel the same to the agglomerator's filters. Could a neural net be of use here?).

Oh, and that AI article? Pretty interesting.