Tempered with the ability to find and stumble into other, fresh, new and interesting things, as well as rolling your own "good list" -- yeah, totally agree with this.
Michael Sullivan wrote: > True, Josh. > Again, it should be about letting users/audience decide on which > "filters" they feel are relevent to them finding content... so, > offering as many filtering options as possible makes sense. every > approach can be debated against another, so use em' all! > > Obviously, the whole digg.com <http://digg.com> approach seems to work > well too. > > sull > > On 11/26/05, *Joshua Kinberg* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[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 <http://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 > > > > Yahoo! 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