> On 11/30/10 9:59 AM, "Quim Gil" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 18:11 +0100, ext Andre Klapper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 09:03 -0800 schrieb Quim Gil: >>> Everybody: please log in at http://news.meego.com and rate some news. >> >> Maybe a stupid question, but what is the criteria for stuff shown on >> that site and on http://meego.com/community/blogs ? > > Not a stupid question. Now we have 3 different sources of blog posts > (blogs hosted at meego.com, feeds aggregated by Dawn, feeds aggregated > by Henri). We need to end up with only one (see > http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10445 ) Sorry to be on the sidelines a bit on this one with the conference and Holiday consuming my time. The comment above does raise a number of concerns I've had with the social news site. These mainly center around the naming. Coming from outside the maemo.org project, the use of "planet", "news" and "blogs" to essentially describe the same thing is really confusing. Add to that the existing meego.com aggregation, blogs and mailing lists, and we have a real problem. Here are my thoughts on the information architecting of all these items in a cohesive way that is understandable to new users coming to the MeeGo project. http://planet.meego.com My thoughts are that the existing implementation of the http://news.meego.com site is actually a planet of aggregated posts, whether they are blogs, news, or twitter items. Calling it "MeeGo Planet" gives it a unique space within the meego.com infrastructure and better describes what it is. Here is what I would suggest for changes: - rename subdomain to http://planet.meego.com - remove subdomain http://news.meego.com - keep top level page as is with the promoted items highlighted (don't call it news in any way though) - keep blogs link with all blogs listed - add twitter and events links - clean up display a bit to show shorter posts and indicate type of post (blog, twitter, event) I can mock up sample here. http://meego.com/community/blogs Although we probably need to look at the criteria for blog inclusion, in general this is working fine. Mainly what we'll need to do is have this blog feed included on the planet.meego.com site aggregation. Once we do that we could also provide a link on each entry to vote for these posts on the planet as well. http://meego.com/aggregator I think the planet.meego.com site should effectively replace this. We can transfer all aggregated blogs to the planet at this point and remove all aggregation on meego.com. http://meego.com (Home Page) If the changes above take place, we now have http://meego.com/community/blogs and http://planet.meego.com as our primary sources of news. Of course that doesn't take into account forum.meego.com, or mailing list posts. I'm not sure including the mailing list posts on the home page is worth it, but including some type of active conversations from the forum might be worth it. Here are some of the requirements we'll need to keep in mind when looking at exactly what to promote to the meego.com home page: - need to retain a promoted post that is controlled by moderators, editors, admins. - can replace the MeeGo Planet items with promoted items from the planet. - do we keep the existing blog posts from meego.com also??? Although the meego.com home page has served well over the last 9 months, it's also time to start looking at ways of making it better. Quim will be leading up this effort so we'll get a chance to look at the overall structure a bit as well as the blog and planet items. Thanks, Mike > The criteria is defined at > http://wiki.meego.com/News.meego.com#Blog_aggregation_checklist > > -- > Quim > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
