We need established and recognized guides.
Vlogging is like film. You know which reviewers you trust and you go to
movies or avoid them on their recommendations. That is what we need on the
Internet regarding vlogs. We need a www.VlogDigest.com site that does that for
us.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
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Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:28
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Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spirit
can not be spoken for
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 approach seems to work well
too.
sull
On 11/26/05, Joshua
Kinberg <
[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]> 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
>
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