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1. Fullasagoog.com has the ability to hide
feeds. However, server-side aggregators require that those running them
ensure content providers remain on topic, at least for the feed that they are
aggregating. I've yet to really see this happen except once in the past 5
years for the various aggregators I go to, so I wouldn't count on
it.
Take action into your own hands, and get a
client-side aggregator/RSS Reader. Feeddemon's pretty pimp. It puts
control in your hands, and most client side apps have better filter mechinisms
than server-side ones.
2. Metadata's main flaw in technology is that
it requires a human to create it. This is:
- too much work
- takes too much thought
- takes too much time
- there is no QA since metadata already isn't
looked upon as that important looking at the former 3
Tagging systems that have come into popularity in
the past year have surprised the hell out of me, and the fervor in which people
have integrated them as well as consitency is quite startling.
...but people are still writing off content blog
posts; the metadata tags just confirm that they are!
Again, if you want control, stick to client
side/desktop RSS Readers. Server-side aggregators aren't all there yet in
terms of control, they don't enforce their rules (they'd rather have quantity
over quality), and you can't make volunteer authors write to your
whims.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cortlandt Winters
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: [osflash] [OT] Upping the quality of Flash rss
feeds? I'm sorry for the OT-ness of this, but I can't think of a better place to ask. This list is community oriented enough that hopefully it's not a bother. Feel free to shut me up if it becomes a long annoying thing to people. Like many, I've gotten in the habit of looking at the mm news aggregator about once a day. It may be my imagination, but over the past year it has seems to have become more and more noisy, to the point where I'd really like to find a way of skimming out about 90 of the feeds and hopefully still get the small percentage that I find interesting. 1 "Studio 8 is out" message would be enough for example. I have no problem glancing at the occasional personal thing or product review, but I'd like some more control over the feed topics and get rid of things that are just announcements or repetitive three line links to something else without anything added. I have looked a little at RSS and Atom and it seemed to me a fundamental flaw that categories would end up being too vague and editorially unenforced to be usefull in feed aggregators. But I realize though, that I may just be ignorant on how it's all supposed to work at a social and organizational level. So in general I have two questions. 1) are there some user practices that actually make this better? Is it just that I don't know how to sort by stars in the aggregator? Or does it really make it much better, for example, to forgoe the mm aggregator, use a newsfeed reader and only put specific feeds that are consistently interesting in it? It seems like this is worth doing but will this really help if most of the feeds are poorly or inconsistently categorized in the first place? 2) If other folk sense the same thing here, would it make any sense to create a community wide, lengthy and explicit category list? One which seperates "Product Announcements" "Product Reviews" "Actionscript Workarounds" "Flash as a Platform" Is there already a name or spec for the taxonomy of interesting categories for a given community? What I'd like ideally is a few hundred category types that, if an author says he or she uses, they do. In order to make setting up a custom newsreader more worthwhile. Thanks for any thoughts. -Cort
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