Darren Barefoot at Darrenbarefoot.com (http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/) writes an article suggesting a way to filter the content you’re accessing on the web to avoid spoilers of common films or news. Darren says “[...] 

Smart Filters to Avoid Disappointment

There are various apps which offer muting functionality for individual keywords or users. What I could really use is a view of Twitter and Facebook that magically removes all messages related to, say, the World Cup.

How would we achieve this? The simplest route would be using bundles of related keywords as a filter, maybe gathered through a crowdsourced process. For the World Cup, we might block all country names and team nicknames for starters. Then maybe common terms like ‘goal’, ‘keeper’ and so forth. Next you’d probably want to block all player names. This presents an immediate problem, as you’re filtering out a bunch of common names like Lee, Kim, James and Green. I asked about this on Twitter, and Dave Johnson suggested that it might be a good task for Google’s Prediction API. [...]”

Seems to me that is a good thing to do, though I would use it on a wider level.

What I wonder is to use it for example, to protect children from unwanted attentions or contents. This is a priority for me, since I have a little child very attracted by technology (or at least this seems to me, maybe she’s “only” curious…

I know that exists distros and software to avoid bad uses or encounters on the net, but an easier to use method such as filtering could be good.

This post as a comment also at http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2010/06/bad-idea-du-jour-a-filtering-service-for-social-media-channels.html/comment-page-1#comment-1602415