Melkjug "Mixer"

Informal thoughts on article selection

Picking a Blend

The basic intuitive concept behind the Melkjug "sliders" interface is a mixing board. 
Users are ideally roughly specifying a "blend" of characteristics that are present
in the articles that are chosen to be "at the top".

Rough Example

Assume the user has two filters that specify blogs. One for "Streets Blog" and one for "O'Reilly Radar".  They are set so that Streets Blog is slightly higher than Radar.

Desirable: The output ideally should have some articles from both blogs, perhaps slightly more Streets Blog articles than radar articles if other factors are equal.

Undesirable: Being rated higher, the output is all from Streets Blog.

When using melkjug as a reader, the user dismisses articles from the set of top articles
and new articles are chosen.  The choice algorithm should be able to pick
incrementally, choosing a single new article to replace a dismissed article.  Put another way, if a single article is dismissed, it should not result in other articles disappearing and
a vastly different set of articles suddenly appearing.