[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-19 Thread Scott Barnes
either / all :)depends on the audience, depends on the level of agitation and above all depends on who's doing it ;)On 8/20/06, darryl lyons
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Why not just use MXNA's idea -- have two ColdFusion fees. There is a
regular, "static" ColdFusion feed, and theres a "we think these areColdFusion posts" ColdFusion feed (Robin's idea). That way you canallow people to choose.On 19/08/06, Scott Barnes <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> This whole thread cracks me up, as I've been sitting on this idea since> first reading it and I wanted to wait and see if anyone else had something
> similiar or close to it. I think it was Mark who came closest.>> Ok, some agree that the "AS-IS" model for the F-Goog works kinda ok? (I for> one find the "leave it be" approach to be suffice for my RSS digestion) -
> Yet - others want a more focused approach, like Dale - "If i ask for> Coldfusion, serve it too me".>> Now Robin has indicated that there is a multitude of ways in which we could
> technically make all this happen, latest being the Bayesian algorithms -> which does sound quite interesting.>> So here's the thing... Geoff makes a change as per Robins posts, what> happens? - I dare say, he could quite easily alienate a large portion of the
> F-Goog population in one hit. He could ignore it? but now that Dale's come> out and stated that he finds it off-topic too much ( my blog is guilty at> times ) others may flock to his banner and agree - more negatives.
>> So Geoff will now need to choose the lesser of both evils? or he could> simply steal a page or two out of Digg.com.>> Why not simply allow folks to click on a feature under each thread in the
> "free-for-all" category that allows the community, the very people who focus> their attention on F-Goog to promote certain feeds into certain categories> of global choice. This will allow the wider population of F-Goog to
> determine what is context and what is noise.>> Sometimes, the power of the end-user is enough. Never forget your consumers> as they are your eyes, ears, voice and mind :)>>>
>> On 8/18/06, Robin Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >>> On 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:>> > 2) its not computationally trivial to work out what is a good and not
> > so good post>> Just FYI Chip Temm has an interesting comment on our blog about using> Bayesian algorithms (often used in spam filters) to automatically> categorise content - here is a link to the article he wrote in CFDJ
> about this a while back:>>  http://au.sys-con.com/read/154232.htm>> To make this work we need a large sample of posts in various
> categories.  To this end I wrote a CF script this evening that> visited the 468 feeds aggregated by the Goog and built a distinct> list of dc:subject tag values on the feed items (see my blog comment
> for the list).>> I figure that if we can map the various subjects used on these blogs> for CF, Flash, Flex etc (there typically seem to be about 4-8> variations for each product) to products we should be able to visit
> the original articles, and assign each to the correct sample (CF,> Flash, Trash etc) based on the subjects allocated by the author at> post time.  With this data (basically a word frequency table) we
> should be able to look at any article or web page and with some> modest number crunching get a pretty good indication of how relevant> it would be to a particular product. It will be fun to see if it
> works anyway...>> __>> Robin Hilliard>>> On 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:>> >> > 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

[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-19 Thread darryl lyons

Why not just use MXNA's idea -- have two ColdFusion fees. There is a
regular, "static" ColdFusion feed, and theres a "we think these are
ColdFusion posts" ColdFusion feed (Robin's idea). That way you can
allow people to choose.

On 19/08/06, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This whole thread cracks me up, as I've been sitting on this idea since
> first reading it and I wanted to wait and see if anyone else had something
> similiar or close to it. I think it was Mark who came closest.
>
> Ok, some agree that the "AS-IS" model for the F-Goog works kinda ok? (I for
> one find the "leave it be" approach to be suffice for my RSS digestion) -
> Yet - others want a more focused approach, like Dale - "If i ask for
> Coldfusion, serve it too me".
>
> Now Robin has indicated that there is a multitude of ways in which we could
> technically make all this happen, latest being the Bayesian algorithms -
> which does sound quite interesting.
>
> So here's the thing... Geoff makes a change as per Robins posts, what
> happens? - I dare say, he could quite easily alienate a large portion of the
> F-Goog population in one hit. He could ignore it? but now that Dale's come
> out and stated that he finds it off-topic too much ( my blog is guilty at
> times ) others may flock to his banner and agree - more negatives.
>
> So Geoff will now need to choose the lesser of both evils? or he could
> simply steal a page or two out of Digg.com.
>
> Why not simply allow folks to click on a feature under each thread in the
> "free-for-all" category that allows the community, the very people who focus
> their attention on F-Goog to promote certain feeds into certain categories
> of global choice. This will allow the wider population of F-Goog to
> determine what is context and what is noise.
>
> Sometimes, the power of the end-user is enough. Never forget your consumers
> as they are your eyes, ears, voice and mind :)
>
>
>
>
> On 8/18/06, Robin Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
> On 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:
>
> > 2) its not computationally trivial to work out what is a good and not
> > so good post
>
> Just FYI Chip Temm has an interesting comment on our blog about using
> Bayesian algorithms (often used in spam filters) to automatically
> categorise content - here is a link to the article he wrote in CFDJ
> about this a while back:
>
>  http://au.sys-con.com/read/154232.htm
>
> To make this work we need a large sample of posts in various
> categories.  To this end I wrote a CF script this evening that
> visited the 468 feeds aggregated by the Goog and built a distinct
> list of dc:subject tag values on the feed items (see my blog comment
> for the list).
>
> I figure that if we can map the various subjects used on these blogs
> for CF, Flash, Flex etc (there typically seem to be about 4-8
> variations for each product) to products we should be able to visit
> the original articles, and assign each to the correct sample (CF,
> Flash, Trash etc) based on the subjects allocated by the author at
> post time.  With this data (basically a word frequency table) we
> should be able to look at any article or web page and with some
> modest number crunching get a pretty good indication of how relevant
> it would be to a particular product. It will be fun to see if it
> works anyway...
>
> __
>
> Robin Hilliard
>
>
> On 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:
>
> >
> > 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. 

[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-19 Thread Scott Barnes
This whole thread cracks me up, as I've been sitting on this idea since first reading it and I wanted to wait and see if anyone else had something similiar or close to it. I think it was Mark who came closest.Ok, some agree that the "AS-IS" model for the F-Goog works kinda ok? (I for one find the "leave it be" approach to be suffice for my RSS digestion) - Yet - others want a more focused approach, like Dale - "If i ask for Coldfusion, serve it too me".
Now Robin has indicated that there is a multitude of ways in which we could technically make all this happen, latest being the Bayesian algorithms - which does sound quite interesting. So here's the thing... Geoff makes a change as per Robins posts, what happens? - I dare say, he could quite easily alienate a large portion of the F-Goog population in one hit. He could ignore it? but now that Dale's come out and stated that he finds it off-topic too much ( my blog is guilty at times ) others may flock to his banner and agree - more negatives.
So Geoff will now need to choose the lesser of both evils? or he could simply steal a page or two out of Digg.com.Why not simply allow folks to click on a feature under each thread in the "free-for-all" category that allows the community, the very people who focus their attention on F-Goog to promote certain feeds into certain categories of global choice. This will allow the wider population of F-Goog to determine what is context and what is noise.
Sometimes, the power of the end-user is enough. Never forget your consumers as they are your eyes, ears, voice and mind :)On 8/18/06, Robin Hilliard
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:> 2) its not computationally trivial to work out what is a good and not> so good postJust FYI Chip Temm has an interesting comment on our blog about using
Bayesian algorithms (often used in spam filters) to automaticallycategorise content - here is a link to the article he wrote in CFDJabout this a while back:
http://au.sys-con.com/read/154232.htmTo make this work we need a large sample of posts in variouscategories.  To this end I wrote a CF script this evening thatvisited the 468 feeds aggregated by the Goog and built a distinct
list of dc:subject tag values on the feed items (see my blog commentfor the list).I figure that if we can map the various subjects used on these blogsfor CF, Flash, Flex etc (there typically seem to be about 4-8
variations for each product) to products we should be able to visitthe original articles, and assign each to the correct sample (CF,Flash, Trash etc) based on the subjects allocated by the author atpost time.  With this data (basically a word frequency table) we
should be able to look at any article or web page and with somemodest number crunching get a pretty good indication of how relevantit would be to a particular product. It will be fun to see if itworks anyway...
__Robin HilliardOn 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:>> 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. Vit

[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-18 Thread Robin Hilliard

On 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:

> 2) its not computationally trivial to work out what is a good and not
> so good post

Just FYI Chip Temm has an interesting comment on our blog about using  
Bayesian algorithms (often used in spam filters) to automatically  
categorise content - here is a link to the article he wrote in CFDJ  
about this a while back:

http://au.sys-con.com/read/154232.htm

To make this work we need a large sample of posts in various  
categories.  To this end I wrote a CF script this evening that  
visited the 468 feeds aggregated by the Goog and built a distinct  
list of dc:subject tag values on the feed items (see my blog comment  
for the list).

I figure that if we can map the various subjects used on these blogs  
for CF, Flash, Flex etc (there typically seem to be about 4-8  
variations for each product) to products we should be able to visit  
the original articles, and assign each to the correct sample (CF,  
Flash, Trash etc) based on the subjects allocated by the author at  
post time.  With this data (basically a word frequency table) we  
should be able to look at any article or web page and with some  
modest number crunching get a pretty good indication of how relevant  
it would be to a particular product. It will be fun to see if it  
works anyway...

__

Robin Hilliard


On 18/08/2006, at 8:31 AM, Geoff Bowers wrote:

>
> 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/
>
>
> 

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread grant
newshutch! fresh and tasty - http://www.newshutch.com
On 8/18/06, Scott Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thunderbird by mozilla for mail and rss.>>> 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/08/2006 11:24 am >>>I actually use www.live.com and although I have an RSS reader added, I don'tuse it for RSS feeds as I use IE7.0 for that, firefox has a few too but
haven't used them so I can't comment on them either. I also did check oneout for Outlook, but didn't like the version and didn't look any further foranymore for outloook.I guess you could always look at 3rd party programs, but it is going to
always boil down to personal preference.Senior Coldfusion DeveloperAegeon Pty. Ltd.www.aegeon.com.auPhone: +613  8676 4223Mobile: 0404 998 273
-Original Message-From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On BehalfOf Dale Fraser
Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 11:07 AMTo: cfaussie@googlegroups.comSubject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.Haha,I think I just need a better RSS reader than the google home page :)
Any suggestions?RegardsDale Fraserhttp://dale.fraser.id.au

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread grant
haha geeks are funny. Dale actually made a valid point.
From there on in everyone delved into semantics.
Dale I feel your pain. Nice observation! 
On 8/18/06, Haikal Saadh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bloglines is good for that sort of thing. And I believe you can export afeed of your feeds as well.
Dale Fraser wrote:> Haha,>> I think I just need a better RSS reader than the google home page :)>> Any suggestions?>> Regards> Dale Fraser>> 
http://dale.fraser.id.au>>>>> -Original Message-> From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:
cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On Behalf> Of Andrew Scott> Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 10:41 AM> To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.
>>> Dale,>> I am glad you slept with an S?>> Sorry couldn't resist, as much as I knew what you meant :-)>>> Senior Coldfusion Developer> Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
> www.aegeon.com.au> Phone: +613  8676 4223> Mobile: 0404 998 273>> -Original Message-> From: 
cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On Behalf> Of Dale Fraser> Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 6:28 AM> To: 
cfaussie@googlegroups.com> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.>>> Sounds interesting, except my name is slept with a S "FRASER">>>>
>> >>>--Haikal SaadhApplications ProgrammerICT Resources, TALSSQUT Kelvin Grove

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Haikal Saadh

Bloglines is good for that sort of thing. And I believe you can export a 
feed of your feeds as well.

Dale Fraser wrote:
> Haha,
>
> I think I just need a better RSS reader than the google home page :)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards
> Dale Fraser
>
> http://dale.fraser.id.au
>
>
>  
>
> -Original Message-
> From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Andrew Scott
> Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 10:41 AM
> To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.
>
>
> Dale,
>
> I am glad you slept with an S?
>
> Sorry couldn't resist, as much as I knew what you meant :-)
>  
>  
> Senior Coldfusion Developer
> Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
> www.aegeon.com.au
> Phone: +613  8676 4223
> Mobile: 0404 998 273
>  
> -Original Message-
> From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Dale Fraser
> Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 6:28 AM
> To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.
>
>
> Sounds interesting, except my name is slept with a S "FRASER"
>
>
>
>
>
> >
>
>   


-- 
Haikal Saadh
Applications Programmer
ICT Resources, TALSS
QUT Kelvin Grove


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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Scott

I actually use www.live.com and although I have an RSS reader added, I don't
use it for RSS feeds as I use IE7.0 for that, firefox has a few too but
haven't used them so I can't comment on them either. I also did check one
out for Outlook, but didn't like the version and didn't look any further for
anymore for outloook.

I guess you could always look at 3rd party programs, but it is going to
always boil down to personal preference.
 
 
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
Phone: +613  8676 4223
Mobile: 0404 998 273
 

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Of Dale Fraser
Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 11:07 AM
To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.


Haha,

I think I just need a better RSS reader than the google home page :)

Any suggestions?

Regards
Dale Fraser

http://dale.fraser.id.au


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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Dale Fraser

Haha,

I think I just need a better RSS reader than the google home page :)

Any suggestions?

Regards
Dale Fraser

http://dale.fraser.id.au


 

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Of Andrew Scott
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To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.


Dale,

I am glad you slept with an S?

Sorry couldn't resist, as much as I knew what you meant :-)
 
 
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
Phone: +613  8676 4223
Mobile: 0404 998 273
 
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Sounds interesting, except my name is slept with a S "FRASER"





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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Scott

Dale,

I am glad you slept with an S?

Sorry couldn't resist, as much as I knew what you meant :-)
 
 
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
Phone: +613  8676 4223
Mobile: 0404 998 273
 
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Of Dale Fraser
Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 6:28 AM
To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.


Sounds interesting, except my name is slept with a S "FRASER"


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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Charlie Arehart



Patrick, just as one example, my blog (which 
uses BlogCFC) does indeed send that "category" element, and it's based on 
the "category" I pick in my site. As I said in an earlier note, though, the 
categories I choose are based on my own presumption that people looking at my 
blog already know it's all about CF, and therefore want a breakdown within that. 
I don't by and large tag every blog entry with CF as a 
category.
 
This does raise an interesting idea that perhaps Ray might 
consider: a means to set a default category that all posts from a given blog 
would have (kind of a meta-category), with a clear option to turn it off for 
posts that do not fit. Of course, humans being humans, it's always possible one 
could miss that they should have turned it off for an off-topic post. There's 
got to be some balance that could be achieved in solving these different 
problems. :-) I think it's just a matter of time. We're still pretty early in 
the history of the blogosphere.
 
PS Thanks, praggyenator, for the vote of confidence in my 
other idea. And Mark raises the idea of delicious. I have to admit I just have 
never gotten into it. Maybe it could well be part of the 
solution.
 
/charlie
http://www.carehart.org/blog/
 


From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick 
BranleySent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:33 PMTo: 
cfaussie@googlegroups.comSubject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste 
of time.
oooh wait!then i find this: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltcategorygtSubelementOfLtitemgtthe 
rss 2.0 spec does support categories seems it just needs to be a case of 
getting bloggers to be more specific about what categories their posts relate 
to.. or maybe to goog aggregator more picky about what posts it includes into 
its blended feeds ?Pat
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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Charlie Arehart

Great to hear, Geoff. Speaking of making it pay, have you thought of
following Ray's lead in recognizing that while some will not pay cash, they
will buy stuff off an Amazon wishlist. Not necessarily something for the
company's benefit, but certainly for yours.

I'll be very interested to see how things evolve, and if there's a way for
you to indicate a means to accept help from others, again I would bet people
would volunteer (including me).

I'll say that one thing I want very much to see work is the search feature.
That would just seem SO useful, but I've never found it to turn up results I
knew were there. Any thoughts.

/charlie
http://www.carehart.org/blog/

-Original Message-
From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Geoff Bowers
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:31 PM
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/

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Patrick Branley
oooh wait!then i find this: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltcategorygtSubelementOfLtitemgtthe rss 2.0 spec does support categories
seems it just needs to be a case of getting bloggers to be more specific about what categories their posts relate to.. or maybe to goog aggregator more picky about what posts it includes into its blended feeds ?
PatOn 8/18/06, Patrick Branley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
seems like the RSS 2.0 spec doesnt quite cut it anymore.
 
ive been recently working with some podcasting apps and the iTunes music store. They have a nice little  tag u can add to items / channels
 
maybe a  tag (or some other well known rss category tag syntax ?) would help make the identification process a little easier if a few willing bloggers to update their feeds.
 
im sure ray camden could put it into his next release of blogCFC if there was enough call for it.
 
Pat 
On 8/18/06, Mark Ireland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:




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.comTo:  <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:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] 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/>>>>>
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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Patrick Branley
seems like the RSS 2.0 spec doesnt quite cut it anymore.
 
ive been recently working with some podcasting apps and the iTunes music store. They have a nice little  tag u can add to items / channels
 
maybe a  tag (or some other well known rss category tag syntax ?) would help make the identification process a little easier if a few willing bloggers to update their feeds.
 
im sure ray camden could put it into his next release of blogCFC if there was enough call for it.
 
Pat 
On 8/18/06, Mark Ireland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




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.comTo:  <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:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] 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/>>>>>
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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Mark Ireland


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.comTo:  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 

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Dale Fraser

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/





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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Geoff Bowers

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/


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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Dale Fraser

Sounds interesting, except my name is slept with a S "FRASER"

I'm a bit slow, but I think we could have a good list just based on
categories. I'll post a list of all blogs I used to subscribe to that had
Coldfusion specific categories.

PS: I'd be happy to post a Blog aggregator with all these if someone wants
to tell me how or give me the needed software.

Regards
Dale Fraser

http://dale.fraser.id.au

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From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Robin Hilliard
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 9:36 PM
To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.


On 17/08/2006, at 6:27 PM, Dale Fraser wrote:

>>> Don't agree either, all the blogs I used to subscribe to had  
>>> Coldfusion
> Categories and I just subscribed to them.

That's because you're a human (or so I've been lead to believe by  
reliable witnesses ;-) not a cfml page.  There is no international  
standard for the contents of the  tag in an rss feed that  
identifies Coldfusion related posts.

If you want to compose a list of the names of ColdFusion post  
categories across the few hundred or so blogs the Goog aggregates  
(and keep it updated) and perhaps use it to write a little filter  
function that automatically identifies Coldfusion related blog posts  
for the CF blend I'm sure Geoff would be most appreciative.  Perhaps  
you wouldn't need the subject list - here's an exercise for community- 
minded cfaussiers with some time on their hands:

Q U E S T I O N:

"What is a reliable, reasonably computationally inexpensive way to  
identify a ColdFusion related blog post?  Your entry must be a CFML  
UDF that, passed an ... as a string from this URL:

http://www.fullasagoog.com/xml/fullasagoog50.xml

Will return a boolean true if the item would be of interest to Dale.   
Here is an example:






Entries to be submitted by end of August.  We will then take a sample  
from the above url, run your functions over the list of items and at  
the same time Dale can submit his own list of relevant articles.  We  
will put the lists up and the entry that gets closest to Dale's list  
(i.e is most indistinguishable from a human's selection) wins.  In  
memory of Alan Turing I think we simply have to christen this  
competition:

"THE FRAZER TEST"

RocketBoots will send a ColdFusion book of the winners choosing to  
the winner.  Should be fun...

__

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Scott Barnes
Hey, my post is in that blend and eat my ass with a spoon ;)Seriously, who gives a rats ass.When i was added to the goog, i used to talk abt CF more then FLEX obviously, i evolved into the next Adobe/Macromedia gimmick. 
How about this, instead of pissing and moaning about the free site, rebuild it, submit the code to Geoff and say "this is how you do it" :)Talk is cheap. I should know :)
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Wow, am I disappointed. I'm not sure what's
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Notice anything wrong here?

 

1=Coldfusion

2=Not Coldfusion

3=Not Coldfusion

4=Not Coldfusion

5=Not Coldfusion

6=Not Coldufison

7=Coldfusion

8=Coldfusion

9=Not Coldfusion

 

Now I initially thought that it was because the
bloggers were posting rubbish into their ColdFusion categories, but this is not
the case, it is simply Fullasagoog getting it wrong and adding blogs that are
not really Coldfusion specific to the list. I think based on the fact they
might talk about Coldfusion occasionally.

 

Take number 2 for example "My Real Story"

http://jehiah.com/

 

Have a look at his blog, there is basically nothing
on Coldfusion in there. I seriously think they should fix this to only pickup
blogs with Coldfusion Categories rather than the whole bag of crap.



Regards
Dale Fraser

http://dale.fraser.id.au



 



 










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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Robin Hilliard

On 17/08/2006, at 9:35 PM, Robin Hilliard wrote

> "THE FRAZER TEST"
>
> RocketBoots will send

I've posted the challenge details with some tweaks on our blog:

http://www.rocketboots.com.au/blog/index.cfm? 
mode=entry&entry=1C17927C-E081-51EF-A73775EE3C5DDA59

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread darryl lyons

MXNA has a "smart category" for ColdFusion which pretty much looks the
content of the post to determine whether or not it is CF-related.

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Scott
Sorry Dale,
 
I will have to agree with Robin on this one, the problem is that people generally have blogs on other issues rather than just Coldfusion and its not everyones cup of tea. And it would be harder for Goog to filter and pleaese everyone at the same time.

 
On 8/17/06, Robin Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17/08/2006, at 6:27 PM, Dale Fraser wrote:>>> Don't agree either, all the blogs I used to subscribe to had
>>> Coldfusion> Categories and I just subscribed to them.That's because you're a human (or so I've been lead to believe byreliable witnesses ;-) not a cfml page.  There is no international
standard for the contents of the  tag in an rss feed thatidentifies Coldfusion related posts.If you want to compose a list of the names of ColdFusion postcategories across the few hundred or so blogs the Goog aggregates
(and keep it updated) and perhaps use it to write a little filterfunction that automatically identifies Coldfusion related blog postsfor the CF blend I'm sure Geoff would be most appreciative.  Perhapsyou wouldn't need the subject list - here's an exercise for community-
minded cfaussiers with some time on their hands:Q U E S T I O N:"What is a reliable, reasonably computationally inexpensive way toidentify a ColdFusion related blog post?  Your entry must be a CFML
UDF that, passed an ... as a string from this URL:   http://www.fullasagoog.com/xml/fullasagoog50.xmlWill return a boolean true if the item would be of interest to Dale.
Here is an example:      
      Entries to be submitted by end of August.  We will then take a samplefrom the above url, run your functions over the list of items and at
the same time Dale can submit his own list of relevant articles.  Wewill put the lists up and the entry that gets closest to Dale's list(i.e is most indistinguishable from a human's selection) wins.  Inmemory of Alan Turing I think we simply have to christen this
competition:"THE FRAZER TEST"RocketBoots will send a ColdFusion book of the winners choosing tothe winner.  Should be fun...__Robin Hilliard
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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Robin Hilliard

On 17/08/2006, at 6:27 PM, Dale Fraser wrote:

>>> Don't agree either, all the blogs I used to subscribe to had  
>>> Coldfusion
> Categories and I just subscribed to them.

That's because you're a human (or so I've been lead to believe by  
reliable witnesses ;-) not a cfml page.  There is no international  
standard for the contents of the  tag in an rss feed that  
identifies Coldfusion related posts.

If you want to compose a list of the names of ColdFusion post  
categories across the few hundred or so blogs the Goog aggregates  
(and keep it updated) and perhaps use it to write a little filter  
function that automatically identifies Coldfusion related blog posts  
for the CF blend I'm sure Geoff would be most appreciative.  Perhaps  
you wouldn't need the subject list - here's an exercise for community- 
minded cfaussiers with some time on their hands:

Q U E S T I O N:

"What is a reliable, reasonably computationally inexpensive way to  
identify a ColdFusion related blog post?  Your entry must be a CFML  
UDF that, passed an ... as a string from this URL:

http://www.fullasagoog.com/xml/fullasagoog50.xml

Will return a boolean true if the item would be of interest to Dale.   
Here is an example:






Entries to be submitted by end of August.  We will then take a sample  
from the above url, run your functions over the list of items and at  
the same time Dale can submit his own list of relevant articles.  We  
will put the lists up and the entry that gets closest to Dale's list  
(i.e is most indistinguishable from a human's selection) wins.  In  
memory of Alan Turing I think we simply have to christen this  
competition:

"THE FRAZER TEST"

RocketBoots will send a ColdFusion book of the winners choosing to  
the winner.  Should be fun...

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Dale Fraser

Ok,

I'll shut up, if you read the posts I said it was a waste of my time, not
the Goog concept was a waste of time.

But, obviously people think this is a difficult problem to fix and the Goog
is some sacred idol that we shouldn't speak badly of.

So I'll go back to adding interesting blogs individually where they provide
a Coldfusion specific category.

Regards
Dale Fraser

http://dale.fraser.id.au

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From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Robin Hilliard
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 8:46 PM
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RocketBoots is signed up as a Flash Blog, quite a few blogs don't fit  
neatly into one or the other.  Compared to MXNA I'd say Geoff is a  
fair bit more selective about the blogs he aggregates.

That said Dale, until the day you're hosting a blog aggregator or  
other insanely useful service free of charge for the community (what  
do you think the bandwidth bill is each month? Perhaps you'd like to  
pay it on Daemon's behalf) you've got a bit of a nerve calling the  
Goog a waste of time.  Maybe you were just dashing off a title for  
your post, but it comes over a bit rich out here in the ether...

__

Robin Hilliard

On 17/08/2006, at 7:15 PM, darryl lyons wrote:

>
> The thing to remember is that a lot of those blogs would have just
> signed up in the ColdFusion category, because that was the only one
> that made sense to use (e.g. that is what I did).
>
> -- 
>
> Darryl
> http://www.acheron.org/darryl/




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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Robin Hilliard

RocketBoots is signed up as a Flash Blog, quite a few blogs don't fit  
neatly into one or the other.  Compared to MXNA I'd say Geoff is a  
fair bit more selective about the blogs he aggregates.

That said Dale, until the day you're hosting a blog aggregator or  
other insanely useful service free of charge for the community (what  
do you think the bandwidth bill is each month? Perhaps you'd like to  
pay it on Daemon's behalf) you've got a bit of a nerve calling the  
Goog a waste of time.  Maybe you were just dashing off a title for  
your post, but it comes over a bit rich out here in the ether...

__

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On 17/08/2006, at 7:15 PM, darryl lyons wrote:

>
> The thing to remember is that a lot of those blogs would have just
> signed up in the ColdFusion category, because that was the only one
> that made sense to use (e.g. that is what I did).
>
> -- 
>
> Darryl
> http://www.acheron.org/darryl/

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread darryl lyons

The thing to remember is that a lot of those blogs would have just
signed up in the ColdFusion category, because that was the only one
that made sense to use (e.g. that is what I did).

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Dale Fraser








Ok guys,

 

If you think free = crap then I understand why you
love it.

 

I’m not bagging it so much as making a
suggestion as to how it could waste less time. All it needs to do is only pick
up blogs that specifically have a Coldfusion Category, it’s not rocket
science.



Regards
Dale Fraser

http://dale.fraser.id.au


 











From:
cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M@ Bourke
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006
18:37 PM
To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com
Subject: [cfaussie] Re:
Fullasagoog a waste of time.



 

OMG I'm totally disgusted
with the goog and will be asking for my money back!

oh wait its free...





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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread M@ Bourke
OMG I'm totally disgusted with the goog and will be asking for my money back!oh wait its free...

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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Dale Fraser

Toby,

I don’t agree.

1) fullasagoog is not supposed to be pure coldfusion

>> I think the Coldfusion Blend is, thus the name!

2) these are *blogs*.  Every one of them is a personal journal, and while
some of the posters write almost nothing but technical articles, some of
them also write personal stuff.  It's not supposed to be a technical news
feed.

>> Don't agree either, all the blogs I used to subscribe to had Coldfusion
Categories and I just subscribed to them.

3) It's a free service, and you don't have to read the ones you don't like 

>> It is a free service, and a good one. But you kind of have to read them
at least partially to work out if they are CF related. Which explains my
topic "A waste of time". Not a waste of time someone doing goog, but a waste
of my time having to sift through the rubbish to find the good stuff.

Regards
Dale Fraser
http://dale.fraser.id.au

 

From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Toby Tremayne
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:18 PM
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A couple of points Dale - 

1) fullasagoog is not supposed to be pure coldfusion
2) these are *blogs*.  Every one of them is a personal journal, and while
some of the posters write almost nothing but technical articles, some of
them also write personal stuff.  It's not supposed to be a technical news
feed.
3) It's a free service, and you don't have to read the ones you don't like
:)

Toby

On 17/08/2006, at 4:56 PM, Dale Fraser wrote:


 
 
 
 
2=Not Coldfusion
4=Not Coldfusion
6=Not Coldufison
8=Coldfusion
 
 
http://jehiah.com/
Have a look at his blog, there is basically nothing on Coldfusion in there.
I seriously think they should fix this to only pickup blogs with Coldfusion
Categories rather than the whole bag of crap.
http://dale.fraser.id.au
 







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[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog a waste of time.

2006-08-17 Thread Toby Tremayne
A couple of points Dale - 1) fullasagoog is not supposed to be pure coldfusion2) these are *blogs*.  Every one of them is a personal journal, and while some of the posters write almost nothing but technical articles, some of them also write personal stuff.  It's not supposed to be a technical news feed.3) It's a free service, and you don't have to read the ones you don't like :)TobyOn 17/08/2006, at 4:56 PM, 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 fullasagoog.com ColdFusionMX blend editShow items 1. Hey, stop talking already2. My Real Story3. CSS and Get Firefox4. HostMySite.com is down5. The truth about FLEX in business.6. When did you loose your google-ginity.7. Admin API ... Introduction8. rethrow9. Actionscript Common Function Library Survey Notice anything wrong here? 1=Coldfusion2=Not Coldfusion3=Not Coldfusion4=Not Coldfusion5=Not Coldfusion6=Not Coldufison7=Coldfusion8=Coldfusion9=Not Coldfusion Now I initially thought that it was because the bloggers were posting rubbish into their ColdFusion categories, but this is not the case, it is simply Fullasagoog getting it wrong and adding blogs that are not really Coldfusion specific to the list. I think based on the fact they might talk about Coldfusion occasionally. Take number 2 for example “My Real Story”http://jehiah.com/ Have a look at his blog, there is basically nothing on Coldfusion in there. I seriously think they should fix this to only pickup blogs with Coldfusion Categories rather than the whole bag of crap.RegardsDale Fraserhttp://dale.fraser.id.au  

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