Blogs Wanted

[walrus]

I'll drop a blog in an aggregator once in awhile, just to see if anythings changed (and it never has) but I'll agree that they tend to be of minimal use if you post quality over quantity.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by walrus

I'll drop a blog in an aggregator once in awhile, just to see if anythings changed (and it never has) but I'll agree that they tend to be of minimal use if you post quality over quantity.

Argh you cost me a sleepless night Mr.Walrus
I truly want to build my aggregator into something of value to Bloggers and Surfers.
Last night I had over 30,000 feed links from just over 1000 blogs, I deleted the blog that I think was the worse offender of pumping out massive quantities of crap and dropped down to 27000 feed links.

I found the blog on Technorati a couple weeks ago (they love it), a blog spitting out over 200 posts a day just doesn't seem right, hope I’m not shooting myself in the foot

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Argh you cost me a sleepless night Mr.Walrus
I truly want to build my aggregator into something of value to Bloggers and Surfers.
Last night I had over 30,000 feed links from just over 1000 blogs, I deleted the blog that I think was the worse offender of pumping out massive quantities of crap and dropped down to 27000 feed links.

I found the blog on Technorati a couple weeks ago (they love it), a blog spitting out over 200 posts a day just doesn't seem right, hope I’m not shooting myself in the foot

Maybe the easiest solution is to list only the most recent 1-somenumber posts per blog/domain per day in your aggregate? This might create motivation for quality posts, without evicting a site that might otherwise be increadably productive.

[pudcat]

Originally Posted by virgohippy

Maybe the easiest solution is to list only the most recent 1-somenumber posts per blog/domain per day in your aggregate? This might create motivation for quality posts, without evicting a site that might otherwise be increadably productive.

great idea |goodidea

I was thinking of a totally different method (which is easier to exploit/harder to avoid exploiting), though I quite like the simplicity of your idea.

I'll work on some improvements.

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Argh you cost me a sleepless night Mr.Walrus
I truly want to build my aggregator into something of value to Bloggers and Surfers.
Last night I had over 30,000 feed links from just over 1000 blogs, I deleted the blog that I think was the worse offender of pumping out massive quantities of crap and dropped down to 27000 feed links.

I found the blog on Technorati a couple weeks ago (they love it), a blog spitting out over 200 posts a day just doesn't seem right, hope I’m not shooting myself in the foot

I'm the one that brought up the subject, sure did'nt mean to cause any one any problems..

I wonder if Technorati loves it enough to send traffic? It looks like the mainstream aggregators have no quality criteria either, or no way of sifting quality over crap. I guess in a perfect world a aggregator would have some kind of search engine type algo.

ronnie

[walrus]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Argh you cost me a sleepless night Mr.Walrus
I truly want to build my aggregator into something of value to Bloggers and Surfers.
Last night I had over 30,000 feed links from just over 1000 blogs, I deleted the blog that I think was the worse offender of pumping out massive quantities of crap and dropped down to 27000 feed links.

I found the blog on Technorati a couple weeks ago (they love it), a blog spitting out over 200 posts a day just doesn't seem right, hope I’m not shooting myself in the foot

Sorry about that but it was all ronnie's fault

I think it's a tough issue for both aggregator owners and directory owners. You want to build something of quality for the surfers but at the same time you need to build something of value for the blog owners and, especially in the early days, those two things are very difficult to balance.