I accidentally sent my reply just to Jonathan, and thus his reply came
to me directly. I agree with Johnathan on his things that annoy him.
Anyway, I'm inclined to go for some self policing here and say that we
should ask everyone that has a blog on Planet Code4lib to evaluate how
often their posts are on topic. If it is a majority of the time, then
they should do nothing. If it is only occasionally, they should set up
a feed based on a tag or category and send the information to
Johnathan or Antonio to edit (assuming Antonio is going to be helping out).
I also think that if there are some blogs as 1) Identified as being
mostly off topic, and 2) by people who are not actively (If at all )
involved in the community, that they should be contacted and ask the if
the mind being removed or if they would set up a category feed as
described above.
Edward - still doesn't like 115 pages of text on his browser
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 00:55:46 -0400
From: Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is a good point. I think participation in the community is important in
addition to content.
I actually DO think that the vast majority of feeds included have more 'on
topic' posts than 'off topic' though. And I read the planet regularly myself.
For the most part, I am happy with the content. I will admit that the feeds
that irrititate me the most are the ones that do ALL (not just one) of: 1) Have
very long posts and/or very frequent posts 2) have very very few posts I
consider 'on topic', and 3) Are not from people who participate in this
community much at all, as far as I know (I could be wrong).
I am happy to include sub-feeds from any blog-writer that would like me to include a
sub-feed, feel free to let me know. I would not like obligating blog posters who want to
be in a feed to use any particular 'tag', or even 'tags' at all on their blog. I am fine
with a certain amount of "non topical" content, and agree that a _certain
amount_, when from people who participate in one way or another in the community, can
even be nice. Within bounds.
Jonathan
"Edward M. Corrado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/21/08 5:41 PM >>>
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No one other than me is managing it at present. Pretty much the only
'management' I do is adding blogs whenever someone asks me too. (I also
did just a bit of fine-tuning of the CSS for the html version). I think
it may be the planet software that decides what order to display
lastname and firstname, but feel free to email me ones that are
displaying oddly, and I'll see if I can fix them. I'm not going to get
into serious hacking of the planet software though, or replacing it with
other software (I _maybe_ could be convinced to upgrade it if there's an
upgrade available). (if anyone else wants to do any of that stuff,
raise your hand on the list, and we can probably get you access).
An unanswered question is when or if the community ever expects me to
_remove_ blogs from the planet. It's not clear. I don't want to remove
them if people are going to see it as an abuse of power or something, as
some have indicated they would. (Most could probably care less either way).
Other blogs people have suggested I remove from the code4lib aggregator,
as consisting of mainly nontopical content for code4lib, are Mark
Lindner and Meredith Farkas. I guess say so if you'd like to LEAVE
those on the aggregator, and if nobody says so, I'll leave them. If
someone does say so... then I have no idea. :)
If we were voting, I'd say remove them. While I enjoy Meredith's blog, it is
rather off topic. Of course the problem is this is a slippery slope.
Probably 90% of the blogs have more off-topic posts then on topic (mine
included). However, I also think this comes to community. If Meredith
regularly participated in code4lib, I'd say keep her. So, I guess what I'm
saying is content is not the only criteria in my mind (although it is an
important one).
Edward
Jonathan
Jodi Schneider wrote:
I'm a big fan of the planet aggregator. Normally I make suggestions on
#code4lib. However, Jonathan Rochkind asked me to bring them up onlist
this time. (Who besides Jonathan is managing the planet at present?)
(1) Bjorn Tipling suggested removing him, since he's going to focus on
politics:
"Some of the places where my blog is being tracked, such as code4lib and
netlamers, might want to look at whether or not they want to continue to
follow me."
http://bjorn.tipling.com/2008/05/17/blog-pundits/
Can we remove his blog please?
(2) I'd really like a changelog--which might further justify
adding/dropping blogs without discussion.
(3) Could we please label blogs consistently? For individuals, we have
mostly lastname, firstname with a few firstname lastname. Either way
works. But the mixture rankles (sad, I know!).
Thanks!
-Jodi
Jodi Schneider
Science Library Specialist
Amherst College
413-542-2076
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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
