Giving words too much power.

There's a new program called FeedRinse that filters your RSS feeds, in case you have too many to read effectively. It searches for words and includes or excludes them. Basing your reading input on specific words has its problems. For example, you hate artichokes. You put the word "artichokes" in your RSS filter so you never ever have to read an article about artichokes. But you'll miss a delicious rant about the cons and cons of artichokes, one that articulates your vegetable rage most incisively. Words are just words, and humans still have to decide which ones to read. Machines can't make these kinds of decisions.