Library clips :: April

April 1, 2005

Managing RSS content…

Geeking with Greg: A relevance rank for news and weblogs talks about alleviating the RSS overload problem by sorting your feeds by relevance rather than date. He explains that this ranking is more intimate than popularity as it is based on circles of blogs that you like.

I’ve mentioned before about systems, such as Ultragleeper, that use a circle of blogs for recommendation…what we are talking about above is similar, but it’s not for scouting new content, it’s for arranging content that you already have into a more meaningful way based on a circle of blogs. This idea of a circle of blogs reminds me of MemeStreams, although this tool requires you to manually hook up with friends.

Something most similar to what Greg, from Findory, mentions is Chameleon…keeps track of your favourite feeds on your past reading behaviour and ranks them in priority…same idea behind Findory.

Comments (1)

View blog reactions

Print Friendly

Folksonomy before Taxonomy

Filed under: tags, folksonomy, readers

The Community Engine Blog: Newsgator: Taxonomy and Folksonomy is a great post on how RSS reader archives can be categorized. This alludes to using a folksonomy environment as a working space for clues on how to build the taxonomy. That is, build the taxonomy based on a prior user defined system (ie. a folksonomy).

This is Marketing 101, learn what the customer wants and then build it…you can’t go wrong!
In this example, to understand; which items are tagged, how many times an item is tagged, common tag names applied, and who the tagger is…then base your content and taxonomy on this information.

This is KM 101, users organising data into information and then the taxonomer making inferences, and turning this information into knowledge…hence a usable taxonomy!

Comments (0)

View blog reactions

Print Friendly