On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Luke Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's a lot of tempting info to capture there, but something about > sending links into melkjug feels a little icky to me. > Yeah, my creepometer was definitely bristling a little imagining some of the more corporate ways this could be done... The right thing to do would definitely be to still provide the original link, and then if anything a separate "read this on melkjug" link for the melkjug permalink. > I don't think we should do that for posting onto delicious, digg etc > because it fractures the original article's numbers (and our use of them). > Excellent point. > > I do like the per-article permalink view idea with additional melkjuggish > info, I think a more targeted plug link for melkjug, when we actually have > more info to show, could be cool without being too intrusive. > Ticketed this up at http://trac.openplans.org/melkjug/ticket/229 in a backlog user story, for future reference. Josh > > - Luke > > On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Joshua Bronson wrote: > > In the process of writing up > #227<https://melkjug.openplans.org/trac/melkjug/ticket/227>, > I realized it might be cool if instead of linking directly to the original > source of the article being shared, we linked to a view of the individual > article from within Melkjug. That is, Melkjug would provide a > melkjug.com-based permalink to each article, visible of course to anyone. If > whoever the article is being shared with hasn't checked out Melkjug yet, > when they go to read the article they'll get to check out Melkjug at the > same time. > > The permalink view could eventually have some smarts to it: "users who've > starred this", "articles with a similar set of tags", or something like "if > you like this article, here are some other articles/feeds/users you might > like", where each of these would link to a jug that would be automatically > populated with relevant feeds and filters. This builds on the idea of the > anonymous reader, giving anonymous users a seamless path to getting stuff in > a jug without them even having to know what a jug is. > > Wei wu wei, and shit.* > > Josh > > > *apologies, quicksilver > > >
