I hate to interrupt, but this is superbowl time, America's Holiday, time to pig out, drink till you drop! Hardware will be there after the superbowl!
:-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Metro Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 6:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [HH] Hardware Hacking sub-reddit I have a backlog of articles queued for posting to the list here (a bunch due to CES), which I haven't gotten to, as it takes some time to go through each, determine whether it is newsworthy, and summarize it. I'm wondering whether it may be more efficient to share these items through a mechanism like Reddit. Basically any on-topic article would be funneled there without delay, where the community could decide which are newsworthy by ranking them. In theory, some automation could be applied to generate a weekly posting to the list showing the top 10 (or whatever) articles from the past week. I've had only limited exposure to Reddit, and thus can't say whether it is an ideal tool for this. I know it permits ranking and commenting on stories, but I don't believe it lets multiple users contribute (wiki-style) to a summary of the article. I'm not aware of any alternative services that would address this deficiency. (I tend to consider good summaries critical in any news source. I judge the quality of a news channel not only on how many articles of interest it sends my way, but also on how good it is at telling me enough about an article in the summary that I don't feel the need to read any more. If each entry amounts to a teaser that leaves me more curious, then its great for the sites advertising model, but a waste of my time.) I've discussed this idea with Will Rico, manager of BLU's Desktop Linux sub-group, who is looking for a similar solution. Regardless of the tool chosen, most depend on community participation, and with this small list, that's going to be a challenge. If none of you are existing users of Reddit, getting you to visit there periodically is probably not going to happen. Do any of you already use Reddit? Are the news summary postings on the list useful? Or would you rather the list stick to project oriented discussion? -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
