I have come to really love Google Reader, as a way to get my news, tag various posts, and act in some ways as an information manager. 

However, it is clear that there is simply too much to read - like music, too much out there, so I only read 'the biggies', and the people I know.

How a single SCOOP site handles posters, is that the people themselves in a scoop site, can RECOMMEND a post - thus Daily Kos recommended dairies.  So you are using the "Wisdom of Crowds" to find good posts by people you do not know.

I think you can do something similar with blog searcher engines, and blog readers.

I have some suggestions for rss readers in general, and specifically for the google setup. 

I am thinking that posts could get "rated", and I'm thinking in a 4 x 4 framework:

Style                               1   2   3   4
Importance Relevance     1   2   3   4
Informed/Accuracy         1   2   3   4
Recommend?                  1   2   3   4

This would work very well on Google Reader -

Down opposite the labels, have a "Rate It?" button, that opens up a small little grid of radio buttons for the 1-4, and each of the above qualities of rating.

Google then keeps this information in their database - across all people using Google Reader.

Then, there should be a link (or embedded) the Google Blog Search functionality, that on the Advanced Search, would incorporate these ratings (or perhaps a by? with the 4 categories).

That way, I could search blogs by utilizing not only the relevance engine already built-into google (links, popularity) but I could search by "Integral Practice", and "Recommended", and get the most recommended column ABOUT the search I am doing.

I don't know whether this is possible - but for example, technorati has begun to use authority as a way to build in relevance.  But incorporate ratings would make this even better.

Any thoughts on this?  Let me know if you think this exists somewhere.