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* Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@i...> [2005-08-23 11:26]: > From: 'Alan Gutierrez' [mailto:alan-xml-dev@e...] > > Blogs and XML-Dev are different. XML-Dev is threaded > discussions. In blogs, discussion is tracked through links. > > I'm sure that blogs would be an easier task. > > Blogging software is extensible. It's possible to entice > bloggers to host a component of the search algorithm. > Observe it behaviorally, and the XML-Devs are not well-threaded. > Humans don't stick to the topic. They drift and the directions of > drift are illuminating clues for problem-solving systems. If I > want to aggregate, I have to have a way to use the Subject line > sparingly. If I were to spend the next two years pooring over the contents of XML-Dev to design algorithms to poor over it further... Well, I don't get out enough as it is, you see. > Entice? Free beer or egoboo? Increased traffic, so both. > I'm not sure why I want to host your search component. In fact, > I'm sure I don't. Nothing personal, just that the web has become > exactly what some feared it would become: the world's most > pervasive snitch. Why host a feed for your blog? Why sign up for Technorati? > So how is your search component any different from a spybot? What > would I (the content *owner*) do with it? Participate? Give to > get? Get got? You do nothing. It is another way to present your content. > Discussion is only tracked by links if I bother to link. > Sometimes I can't be bothered. :-) It's hard with some of the current blogging UIs to link as much as one should. But a well linked article is of more value to the reader. -- Alan Gutierrez - alan@e... - http://engrm.com/blogometer/index.html - http://engrm.com/blogometer/rss.2.0.xml
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