Comments for More on Topic-Sharing Community

More on Topic-Sharing Community

2004-05-20T16:52:28Z

There's already been a great response to my post last night (see the comments to previous entry). Greg suggested his aggregator Blogdigger could be included in this - I agree! Matt and Andrew also posted very thoughtful responses.

Here's some of my feedback (copied from the comments - I must get these enabled inline...):

Overnight while pondering my post (which I regard as just a 'starter for 10' btw, not a final solution by any means), I did conclude that KC essentially already does what I describe - polls registered RSS feeds with ENT in them and aggregates them. It would be great if TE also had that functionality.

It's the client ping that I think is unnecessary and possibly holding back community uptake - with TE the ping is a manual process for the blogger, and with KC you need to install an add-on tool to enable the pinging. Both require too much manual effort for the blogger (IMHO of course). eg Bloglines does all its aggregation automatically (every hour I think), with no pinging required from the blogger.

Although Andrew I take your point about bandwidth utilization. But if Bloglines (and Blogdigger) can do it, why not KC and TE?

Comment from Andrew on 2004-05-19

2004-05-19T21:28:58Z

You could use Javascript to cause a pseudo-ping whenever the page is loaded, but this could potentially overload the topic server, and also, if everyone uses RSS feeds, it might never get activated either.

Comment from Andrew on 2004-05-23

2004-05-23T20:57:50Z

You might want to consider advocating the use of something like Ping-o-matic (info at http://pingomatic.com/about/ ) which could serve as a nice substitute for pinging weblogs.com and which, if you could get to support pinging the various topics aggregators as well, could resolve that in one fell swoop.