Geoff, Thanks for the response; I'm glad you didn't take this the wrong way.
I with most people here would like to see Goog prosper. Is there somewhere where people who think blogs you are aggregating are off topic can report them. This way the general community can help you make Goog even better. PS: Robin seemed to suggest it costs a lot to host an aggregator, is this the case I would imagine that there wouldn't be a huge amount of traffic since you just send the links to the source blog. But I'd be interested to know. Regards Dale Fraser http://dale.fraser.id.au -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Bowers Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 8:31 AM To: cfaussie Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time. Dale et al, Dale Fraser wrote: > I recently dropped all my favourite feeds in Google and put in Fullasagoog > Coldfusion Blend instead. > > Wow, am I disappointed. I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm wasting my > time here. I think someone at Fullasagoog should do something about it. > Here's the current top 9 Coldfusion Blend Entries First thing to say is generally I agree. I'm not a great fan of "off topic" posts myself but they clearly don't annoy me as much as they annoy some. There needs to be a bit of a reality check: 1) anecdotally -- about an equal proportion of people *want* to see non-technical posts from CF insiders. They feel it humanises the community and so on. 2) its not computationally trivial to work out what is a good and not so good post 3) not everyone has a category that is relevant -- if i only take CF posts from a blogger do I miss the posts they might have on JS, Flash, Flex, SQL etc? Many bloggers have many technical interests. CF itself has many satellite subjects that should be of interest to CF developers. I have plans for the next generation Goog to provide some degree of social interaction to widen the scope for users to be editors and hone the relevance of posts. I also have a variety of ideas on how to do this computationally. There are some 500 hand picked blogs on Fullasagoog. And a waiting list of about half that. I review each blog before adding it. I even remove some blogs I find to be reliably bad. This is a very subjective and time consuming process. Bloggers tools change, their posting habits change, there are a multitude of human variables associated with maintaining a good feed. I will endeavour to find more time to address the concerns you have raised. But in the end, Fullasagoog is not cash flow positive and is heavily subsidised by Daemon [1]. It's a bit of a hobby that was built to scatch an itch of *mine* several years ago and at the moment I've got some sort of St. Vitus dance going on trying to reach all the other itches. -- geoff http://www.fullasagoog.com/ [1]: http://www.daemon.com.au/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
