RE: [hackers] Re: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc

2003-07-28 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi all, I'd like to introduce myself, I just joined. My name is Terren Suydam (username bacon). I love what I'm seeing here, and I'm looking forward to jumping in. Howard Dean brought me here, but the possibility of helping to transform the democratic process and bring power to the little gu

RE: [hackers] Re: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc

2003-07-27 Thread Zack Rosen
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

Re: [hackers] RE: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc

2003-07-26 Thread Lynn Siprelle
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? Keep in m

Re: [hackers] RE: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc

2003-07-26 Thread Joshua Koenig
Right. Part of MetaDean is a (re)publishing piece: hot content comes up on a front page. Content within categories can be browsed. There would be RSS-feeds eminating up the ying-yang. -j I'd vote for feeds for "hot" items (not knowing anything about programming part of it). Seems like that woul

[hackers] Re: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc

2003-07-26 Thread Joshua Koenig
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

RE: [hackers] RE: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc

2003-07-26 Thread Zephyr Teachout
e- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zack Rosen Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 1:04 AM To: 'Joshua Koenig' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hackers] RE: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc Looks great so far Josh, but my one big question is - how

[hackers] RE: [developers] MetaDean NodeTracking Design Doc

2003-07-25 Thread Zack Rosen
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 -