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News article snarfing & propagation (was: LEGO Calendar of Events)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:10:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> [...]
> Whole news articles (in box/brief form) will also be able to float around
> from section to section very easily, without having to type external text
> like above -- people will be able to snarf news articles for their own
> pages, or for main category pages (if they're an editor of that area), so
> that news can propagate around the system (and stay put when needed) in
> newer and better ways.
A bit more on article snarfing & propagation...
If anyone happened to catch this article back in May,
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=1676
the 3rd sub-item of the 4th main item there (the one which begins "Ability
to snarf...") refers basically to personal weblogs[1] with discussion group
integration -- but taking it one step further where the log entries (or the
"stories") propagate from person to person, from person to group, from
group to person, and from group to group.
So Bob might stop by Jim's page, for example, and see a story about some new
Star Wars set, and snarf that story for his own page, which other people
would see if they happened to stop by his page or anyone else's page who'd
also snarfed it. Maybe Jim got the story from Sarah, who got it from Zed,
who got it from Tim. And maybe Jane is an editor of the /starwars/ area and
snarfs a copy from Bob for the /starwars/ headlines, where it would
propagate even faster to more people. (The original poster's name is still
always attached to the story, of course.)
On the swarm level, this is like über-multi-collaborative quasi-hierarchical
twisting-inside-out content filtering and propagation. Information objects
can spread through the system like viruses -- except of course that you can
consciously choose whether or not to become a carrier in each case. :-)
I might regularly check in on, for example, the Star Wars main page, the CAD
main page, and JeremyS's and TerryK's and BramL's main pages for cool new
eye candy that makes me drool. (Everything Bram, Terry, and Jeremy has said
was cool has turned out to be something that I also thought was cool, so
it'd be a good bet for me to check their pages periodically.) I'd also
check in on the Boston main page for anything of local interest.
A trainiac with copious amounts of spare time might regularly check in on,
for example, the Trains and Build main pages, and LarryP's and JamesM's and
ten other trainiac's main pages as well as the Minneapolis page. Or a
trainiac in a hurry might only check the Trains page periodically.
Snarfing a news article for one's own personal page will be about as simple
as one or two clicks, assuming you're already viewing the article's page on
the website. There probably also ought to be an automated way for someone
to suggest to an editor of an area that something be included, so that an
area editor doesn't have to scour for things unless they want to.
The size of the entire lugnet newssystem is getting to the point where it is
too much information for even the most voracious reader. That is, while
most people don't even want to read (or even scan) every single article in
every single group, I don't think there's any one person who could suck it
all in even if they tried to. So having a way to "flag" things -- to stop
the more interesting things as they go whizzing by and attach them to more
permanent topical locations -- will become increasingly useful and important
as the system continues to grow.
--Todd
[1] excellent examples of weblogs are www.camworld.com and www.memepool.com.
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