Makes great sense to me :) How long till we can see it work? -Zack
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Koenig Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hackers] Re: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc As I see it there are two purposes to having MetaDean "rate" content: 1) To tell what's hot, popular, kickin' etc. (most important) 2) To allow for some kind of editorial comment on content (e.g. "Be aware of this awful news article; it's a complete hack job.") Item #1 is accomplished by having metadean observe how often a given piece is showing up around the net, how often something is re-syndicated. Perhaps this isn't feasable, but I always thought it would be rather simple to keep track of the origin of a piece of syndicated content. Then when MetaDean sees that a piece titled "Insightful Poll Analysis" originating from user fooboo on node desmoins.fordean.net is popping up on 35 sites, this piece will presumably get a high rating. Or, looking at your question again, maybe we have different understandings of "bubble up" syndication: MetaDean doesn't really have much to do with this. If MetaDean picked up low-lying content and pulled it to the top, it wouldn't really be bubbling up. The whole notion of the bottom-to-top feed is that it occurs though different site admins and blog editors deciding that each other's content is worth linking to or re-posting. Item #2 is encapsulated in the normal blog format. We have to trust that we're smart enough and tasteful enough to do our own editorializing. If someone just links to a dean-bashing article, pretty soon someone will pick it apart in their blog, and then that blog content becomes the hot link. This making sense to y'all? -j > Looks great so far Josh, but my one big question is - how does MetaDean > assign ratings to content so that it can be bubbled up? Will sites ping > the server? Or will it just have feeds for "hot" items? Or is there an > easier way to do this that my addled brain isn't coming up with right > now? > > -Zack > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Koenig > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Zephyr Teachout > Subject: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc > > > A first stab at a design doc for node-tracking MetaDean is here: > > http://www.hack4dean.org/phpwiki/index.php?NodeTracking > > If no one else does it, I'll hammer out a first-draft SQL schema over > the weekend. The other big question now is where we're going to set up > our sandbox. > > Note that when I talk about MetaDean from now on, I'm talking about > tracking nodes/sites and content only, not talent. The talent stuff is > going under the Visible Volunteer social networking tool (aka > Deanster). Unless there are objections, of course. ;) > > cheers > -josh > > ------------------------ > Politics is the art of controlling your environment. Participate! > Elect Howard Dean President in 2004! > http://www.outlandishjosh.com/politics/dean/ > > > ------------------------ Politics is the art of controlling your environment. Participate! Elect Howard Dean President in 2004! http://www.outlandishjosh.com/politics/dean/
