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Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

Adam — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:52:40 -0000

I respectfully disagree with that idea, Robert.

It's a self-perpetuating loop... a VERY common mistake in a lot of Web services. By highlighting what's popular, you simply entice more people to access that particular article or resource, thus making it more popular. That's why "Top 10" lists tend to be, at least over time, stultifyingly boring.

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

what — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:49:58 -0000

yeeh. it's called slashdot?

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

TDavid — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:59:09 -0000

To add to what Tejas said above ...

As a publisher I'd much rather push out comment data to a few places - like pinging - rather than a fury of bots hitting our site sucking down the same info. The bigger your site gets, the more popular, the more stress you get from bots. It's already an insane ratio of bots to people, especially if you do any podcasting.

A system that invites even more bot activity to a single non-aggregated source when the payoff in traffic is marginal (Google, Yahoo, MSN and a few other bots aside) seems very resource intensive with little payoff.

If the SE bots want to come more often, we'd welcome that of course :)

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

Devin Reams — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:36:50 -0000

Why don't we do away with comments and just blog our responses? Like Matt's 'asides' in WordPress, just make ourselves a 'Comments' category and stick them somewhere less prominent (or not in the feed). Wait, this is a comment isn't it? Damn hard habit to break...

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

Kevin Burton — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:06:52 -0000

We'll soon support Delicious and Simpy for tuning ranking and comments are already a factor in TailRank.

They'll have more importance here soon as I'm about to push some robot updates.

Kevin

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

met — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:03:21 -0000

The posts that get commented the most are usually Google, Mac and Microsoft ones. So just do a keyword search for those three.

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

Graham Chastney — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:44:20 -0000

Yes please. I think that those search people have a long, long way to go to show us the stuff that we want to see and this looks like one of the pieces.

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

Tejas Patel — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:17:16 -0000

As Stefan said, it will have to check for website/blog updates every 30 seconds or so which is not really cool and not all posts are hot when they are on Memeorandum, some get hotter when they are off memeo..

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

anon — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:14:24 -0000

Sploggers thank you for such a great idea, Scoble.

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

Stefan Constantinescu — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:11:48 -0000

Wouldn't work since meme's content get's changed every 5 minutes. What's hot one hour is gone the next.

I still plead with my battle cry for someone to develop an RSS reader that has a meme engine in it to see everything that is crosslinked, quoted, and talked about.

One can only dream!

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

William Strathearn — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:44:44 -0000

This reminds me of the difference between YouTube.com's most viewed video list and most discussed video list. The most viewed list contains a lot of videos with inticing titles, screen caps and tags, but the videos most commented on are usually much more interesting and substantial.

In this case, an article's link inside another blog's post could be considered just as significant as a comment by a reader. Both require thought and effort, both reference the original post. It seems like Memorandum should take comments into account, but I would'nt imgine that a list of posts ranked by comment count are any more interesting than those ranked by linkage.

Re: How about a comment-based Memeorandum?

Daniel Nicolas — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:24:45 -0000

Flickr has feeds for just about everything BUT the "your popular photos" sections, which does everything like you are talking about, but it's not public and is only your photos.
Good call. I bet it wouldn't be that much work for them to implement what you're talking about (or for someone else to build something really cool that is like that), but clearly there is opportunity waiting for someone to strike.