[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:15:48 -0700

Could the heaviest users of Goog start tagging over at del.icio.us?

Then go with the top 100 tags, maybe?

From:  "Dale Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:  cfaussie@googlegroups.com
To:  <cfaussie@googlegroups.com>
Subject:  [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.
Date:  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:01:26 +1000
>
>Geoff,
>
>Thanks for the response; I'm glad you didn't take this the wrong way.
>
>I with most people here would like to see Goog prosper. Is there somewhere
>where people who think blogs you are aggregating are off topic can report
>them.
>
>This way the general community can help you make Goog even better.
>
>PS: Robin seemed to suggest it costs a lot to host an aggregator, is this
>the case I would imagine that there wouldn't be a huge amount of traffic
>since you just send the links to the source blog. But I'd be interested to
>know.
>
>Regards
>Dale Fraser
>
>http://dale.fraser.id.au
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>Of Geoff Bowers
>Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 8:31 AM
>To: cfaussie
>Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.
>
>
>Dale et al,
>
>Dale Fraser wrote:
> > I recently dropped all my favourite feeds in Google and put in Fullasagoog
> > Coldfusion Blend instead.
> >
> > Wow, am I disappointed. I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm wasting my
> > time here. I think someone at Fullasagoog should do something about it.
> > Here's the current top 9 Coldfusion Blend Entries
>
>First thing to say is generally I agree.  I'm not a great fan of "off
>topic" posts myself but they clearly don't annoy me as much as they
>annoy some.
>
>There needs to be a bit of a reality check:
>1) anecdotally -- about an equal proportion of people *want* to see
>non-technical posts from CF insiders.  They feel it humanises the
>community and so on.
>2) its not computationally trivial to work out what is a good and not
>so good post
>3) not everyone has a category that is relevant -- if i only take CF
>posts from a blogger do I miss the posts they might have on JS, Flash,
>Flex, SQL etc?  Many bloggers have many technical interests.  CF itself
>has many satellite subjects that should be of interest to CF
>developers.
>
>I have plans for the next generation Goog to provide some degree of
>social interaction to widen the scope for users to be editors and hone
>the relevance of posts.  I also have a variety of ideas on how to do
>this computationally.
>
>There are some 500 hand picked blogs on Fullasagoog.  And a waiting
>list of about half that.  I review each blog before adding it.  I even
>remove some blogs I find to be reliably bad.  This is a very subjective
>and time consuming process.  Bloggers tools change, their posting
>habits change, there are a multitude of human variables associated with
>maintaining a good feed.
>
>I will endeavour to find more time to address the concerns you have
>raised. But in the end, Fullasagoog is not cash flow positive and is
>heavily subsidised by Daemon [1].  It's a bit of a hobby that was built
>to scatch an itch of *mine* several years ago and at the moment I've
>got some sort of St. Vitus dance going on trying to reach all the other
>itches.
>
>-- geoff
>http://www.fullasagoog.com/
>
>[1]: http://www.daemon.com.au/
>
>
>
>
>
>local singles online @ Lavalife - Click here
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group.
To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to