[Retr0spectrum]

This service does a rather good job of summarising individual articles:

http://smmry.com/

[mcguire]

I'm not sure nxzero (and I) think that is a good thing.

[Retr0spectrum]

I got the impression that nxzero thought it was a good thing. Filtering out the signal from the noise.

[rhizome]

There are two value judgements in there: that there is a such thing as "must have" information that could be provided by such technology, and that a technology's ability to provide that information means it's getting "good."