Feel free to pick and choose from my back catalog of search-related blog posts. Even some of the old ones are still relevant, like “Searchers Punt Early” and “Do all-stopword queries matter?”
Here is that category: https://observer.wunderwood.org/category/search-engines/page/2/ I use MarsEdit, so it should be easy to submit the same post to a different blog and let the editors approve it. I also wrote a “Solr good practices” document for my last job. Not “previous”, “last”. I’ve been thinking about pulling sections of that as blog posts. Some of the sections: * Modules vs <lib> * Circuit breakers * Starting points for edismax weights * Unicode normalization * Unicode collations * copyField vs CloneFieldUpdateProcessorFactory wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Feb 2, 2025, at 12:41 PM, David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > > I have no problem with our so-called "blog" being more of an aggregation of > posts hosted elsewhere. We could rename it to better reflect this, like > maybe "the Solr Ecosystem Feed"? Not so short & sweet... but whatever. > Ultimately, I think the point is to bring more visibility across the Solr > ecosystem to whatever that's Solr related. > > On the other hand, perhaps the new-ish Solr LinkedIn group[1] (now public > and we've taken it over) should be *that*, and our "blog" becomes a true > blog? As long as an ecosystem feed exists, I'm not sure how much > demand/need there is for a true Solr/project sponsored blog. > > [1]: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/ > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM Mike Drob <md...@mdrob.com> wrote: > >> Hi Devs, >> >> I'd like to discuss the value of the Solr blog at >> https://solr.apache.org/blog.html >> >> We started it a year ago with a great idea that if we build it, content >> will come. But it looks like the breakdown of posts was: >> >> 2 meta posts about the blog >> 3 posts about C/C conferences (2 of which are outbound links) >> 7 additional outbound links >> >> So 75% of our content is outbound links. Is there value in providing these >> outbound links rather than linking directly to those blogs on our Resources >> page? Maybe these outbound links to individual posts help with SEO for our >> authors, I don't know enough about this topic to speak confidently. >> >> Maybe the "join us at upcoming conference" can be part of the News feed? >> And conference recaps? Or if we had recaps of our monthly community >> meetings on the blog that would be a good venue for it. >> >> Let's have a discussion about what can be done to improve the presentation >> on our web site, having had some time to let this experiment play out. >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >>
