> The gump feed could hardly be called "microcontent". It was rather > content spam.
Due to it's verbosity or it's boringness? Those are things I can accept (if only I could apply them to some others ;-). Inappropriate content is another. It seems a bit of a shame we've already started cutting sources off... > Just when they removed it, I was thinking about a suggestion: write a > small filter that would "compress" a whole RSS into just one RSS entry, > for gump-like feeds. I do the suggestion now, for similar unbalances. Personally, I think we are hitting a flaw in the medium/tooling. Some authors (computer or human) are a bore (verbosity or content) and here we've gone from "pull" (direct access to feed) to "push" (PlanetApache) --- which makes bores really stand out more. I'd like to think there was a middle ground between push and pull in this space, but perhaps there isn't & can't be. I enjoy blogging for 'group filtering' -- the shared experiences/interests of a community of likeminded(ish) folks -- for seeing through anopther's eyes. For that you take the noise (travel reports) [or call that 'colour'] for the gold (the insights into world views.) Perhaps the software on PlanetApache can have throttling, or 'ranking', and one earns a position up top of page through community respect (links ala google, or FOAF recommendations, or ...). The 'raw feed' page that is PlanetApache is a jumble. [I've been looking for an OSS aggregator w/ such intelligence, but not found one. Might be nice to work w/ folks to create one...] > OTOH, feel free to steal the code of Thom and Ted and organize your own > "trueplanetapache", "constellationapache", whatever Why on earth would I? It is far more interesting to explore this group dynamic. Everybody has their own take on what this could be, what it should be, and what is fun. I'm just trying to explore the boundaries. regards, Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
