[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:33:09 -0700

oooh wait!
then i find this: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltcategorygtSubelementOfLtitemgt

the rss 2.0 spec does support categories

seems it just needs to be a case of getting bloggers to be more specific about what categories their posts relate to.. or maybe to goog aggregator more picky about what posts it includes into its blended feeds ?

Pat

On 8/18/06, Patrick Branley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
seems like the RSS 2.0 spec doesnt quite cut it anymore.
 
ive been recently working with some podcasting apps and the iTunes music store. They have a nice little <itues:category> tag u can add to items / channels
 
maybe a <goog:category> tag (or some other well known rss category tag syntax ?) would help make the identification process a little easier if a few willing bloggers to update their feeds.
 
im sure ray camden could put it into his next release of blogCFC if there was enough call for it.
 
Pat

 
On 8/18/06, Mark Ireland <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Could the heaviest users of Goog start tagging over at del.icio.us?

Then go with the top 100 tags, maybe?

From:  "Dale Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:   [email protected]
To:  <[email protected]>

Subject:  [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.
Date:  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:01:26 +1000

>
>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/
>
>
>
>
>
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