On Feb 24, 2006, at 18:02, Michael Stillwell wrote:
On 24/02/06, Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Feb 24, 2006, at 16:04, Michael Stillwell wrote:
would it be okay to write a robot that crawled a site and pumped
every URL it found into delicious, using tags collected from <meta
name="keyword">? (I thought this would be considered spam.) Has
someone already written something like this?
The tags and descriptions people use to bookmark a site are
collectively a summary of the message conveyed to them. They're the
consumer's point of view. This feedback is probably more valuable
than a site's ability to jockey for position by pushing their own
agenda into the database.
Isn't this what Infoworld is doing though?
(http://del.icio.us/infoworld) Or am I misunderstanding?
It sure looks like they are.
I still think they would gain more by providing "bookmark with
del.icio.us" links and set up their own RSS feeds. Readers who trust
a source are likely to subscribe to it if they can. They wouldn't
need to maintain a mirror of their site on del.icio.us. The only
downside is that they can't draw as many del.icio.us eyeballs to
their site.
They keywords of the user "nytimes" (in my example)
aren't generated by some random guy, though, they're generated by the
NY Times, and I (for example) trust the NY Times. I'm not trusting
everyone's keywords; I've opted in (so to speak) to the keywords of
"nytimes".
That's valid. Newspapers tend get the keywords and descriptions
right. Editors filter every story before it's posted, so there's a
measure of human interest involved. They lovingly craft and curate
their data. All web sites should be maintained so well.
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Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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