I agree here... but I think its a matter of allowing the community to determine what gets promoted. You can't be everything to everyone, but you can create the infrastructure to enable various ways of finding stuff and pushing stuff up to the top. Categories, Search, Tags, Social Networks, Collaborative Filtering, Ratings, Reviews, Recommendations, Popular Lists, etc... are all ways of finding stuff/pushing stuff to the top. Each has a set of advanages/disadvantages, and may be a better or worse method for finding whatever you're looking for. The easier you can make all of it, and the easier you can make it for users to share interaction/feedback data, whether implicit or explicit, then the system will thrive and flourish.
-Josh On 11/26/05, petertheman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think vlogging can be greatly impacted through directories. > That is why > > > we as a community should work to set up an "open directory" that > will become > > > the accepted norm. Otherwise, others will set up slanted and > manipulated > > > and even "closed" directories. > > I am (clearly, since I built Mefeedia.com) a believer in directories. > They have their pros and cons. And I do believe strongly that having > *open* directories is very important. I try hard to make Mefeedia > open, and there are things I still need to work on. 1 example is: I > don't allow star ratings with reviews, because that would encourage a > mindset of "popularity is important". > > Sorting by popularity is something I do on the /feeds/ page (because > you have to sort by something), but it's the easy way out. I don't > like it, and I'm adding other sorting options in the next version > (coming out end next week). The problem with popularity is not just > that it encourages the "popular" mindset (is this highschool or what?) > but also: what is the algorythm? Right now, in Mefeedia it's just > amount of videos watched. But that's not that great. > > So anyways, what does an "open" directory mean? > > Having a directory is great for 2 things: to introduce newbies to > videobloggers, and to go find some new stuff you didn't know about. > > Having an "open" directory means that all videobloggers have an equal > chance to get listed in the directory, and to get discovered in the > directory. It means that you don't just promote the popular and > commercial stuff, but that you actively try to promote the unknown > vlogs too. > > Enough ranting! > Peter > -- > http://mefeedia.com > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
