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Re: LEGOFan.net [...]
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
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Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:27:54 GMT
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[mattdm@]NoMoreSpam[mattdm.org]
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Suz <suz@baseplate.com> wrote:
> strict formatting standards for participating sources to adhere to, and
Hmmm. This part could be largely handled via existing standards -- each
site could spit out an RDF feed. RDF isn't perfect, but I think it'd do.
And a particularly cool thing about sites doing this is that one could use
any of the zillions of existing RDF aggregators to display the info.
A little dredging shows that Ben Jackson mentioned this a few years
ago.... <http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=7127>
> [1] I had wondered if visitors would be more likely to come to an
> "online magazine" versus setting up a continuous flow of feeds. Like, if
> all content was updated on a schedule, say weekly, would that be more
> attractive? I guess it'd just draw slightly different people.. it'd be
> more difficult to accomplish (like making CLSotW hit the same weekday,
> only, times six or something), but you could get the stream-version 'for
> free' that the more experienced users would prefer.
I think the weekly update thing works great *if* you have someone really
good working full time to summarize and highlight the information. It's a
very hard problem to solve automatically, and while it might be possible
with a distributed many-eyes system (oh dear; I'm talking in buzzwords)
even that would be a lot of work. It comes back to the part of what you
said which I snipped out above: time and money vs. starving.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| (...) A user-configurable dynamic newspage. yeah, that'd be super-neat. Such a thing is why I'd never want to work on a printed magazine for LUGs. Scripts and the web can produce a publication that's way more efficient, up-to-the-minute, adaptable (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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