Wading Through Weblogs, One Idea at a Time 76
candot writes "Remember the recent slashdot story on NASA cancelling the moon hoax book? Wonder what other weblogs are saying about the subject?
Launched today (in beta), the Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics. The Waypath Project's Related Weblog Navigation engine analyzes weblog entries to determine their core conceptual makeups, compares them with one another to find out how related they are, and presents you with its best guess as to what's related to your original input. This is done all automatically. Look for the disclaimers about varying quality you'd expect from an automated classification system, such as at Google News. You're encouraged to embed WP results in your weblog pages. Be the first on your block to try it out, today -- unless it gets slashdotted, then tomorrow. Resources are limited, so pace yourselves."
Beta? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Beta? (Score:2)
To hell with standards, we just want the data!
Re:Beta? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Beta? (Score:2)
Hah! That's funny... reading the directions would have helped. Still, the lack of input checking and catching exceptions is funny.
Re:Beta? (Score:1)
Cheers
'blogs' (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:'blogs' (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:'blogs' (Score:2)
I guess being 23 takes me out of the "teenage" bracket of understanding.
Re:'blogs' (Score:3)
Sure, there are ones that are just a bitch fest for people, and I've used mine to complain about crappy things at work (usually about the shitty security in the computer system I don't have any control over) but if you don't like them, don't read them..
Re:'blogs' (Score:4, Insightful)
And does the name "blog" annoy the hell out of anyone else either? The only people I can picture using the term are annoying hipsters down at Starbucks trying to impress each other as they slam back frappucinos.
Re:'blogs' (Score:1)
The word annoys me senseless as well. Could you please share some URLs of (semi) serious weblogs btw?
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Re:'blogs' (Score:2)
The original meaning of the term 'weblog' was a log of (my) web-reading/recommendations. I don't really approve its generalisation to include diaries.
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It's written in Java? (Score:3, Insightful)
Take a look at slashdot, livejournal, and everything2 -- everything works like clockwork. I think the open source community could, and should, write better code for this.
Wondering? (Score:5, Funny)
Ummm... no. But thanks anyway.
Re:Wondering? (Score:1)
Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? (Score:2, Insightful)
Others have said it but here it is again. Slashdot is a great resource but many interesting sites become inaccessable due to their servers not being able to handle the load. Why can't Slashdot set up a cache of the interesting pages like google does?
Re:Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? (Score:2)
Because that would involve them either manually downloading and saving the cached copy or actually spending time to write code to automatically download and cache a copy of everything that's linked. If you want the feature, submit the patch to slashcode [slashcode.com]. Then it might eventually end up on slashdot.
But in this case it wouldn't help at all since it's more of an application than a web site. All the pages are dynamic... it's like trying to cache Google.
Re:Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? (Score:2)
I think they could set up a cache.slashdot.org server and have it fetch copies of all the links right before the story is posted. Then put a [cached] link for each one in the 'Related Links' section to the right of the story header. Of course they couldn't have banners on top, that would be violating copyright. But a simple google style cache of every link in the story would be a useful add-on to slashcode.
Re:Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? (Score:2)
Maybe Slashdot should invest $40 and buy a copy of Black Widow [softbytelabs.com] site mirroring tool? Maybe it is a legal thing but google has a cache of many sites including ones taken down.
How to obtain site mirroring tool (Score:1)
wget http://www.softbytelabs.com/download/trial.exe
oh wait...
Re:Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? (Score:2)
Re:Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? (Score:2)
And how is this off topic if it was brought up in the subject header? Dang.
Re:Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? (Score:1)
in this case because most of the pages on waypath are dynamically generated - a lot of the sites
The focus of the different weblogs are different (Score:2, Interesting)
As for the hoax, the less discussion on the subject the better. It cannot be conclusivey proved that it was a hoax, and those who believe it was one will not listen to reason.
Re:The focus of the different weblogs are differen (Score:3, Funny)
--
Evan
Combining with E2? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Combining with E2? (Score:2, Funny)
Take a look at memigo (Score:3, Interesting)
Memigo [memigo.com] spots memes and interesting news ahead of weblogs, including Slashdot, instead of relying on trailing metrics like blogs. How? it monitors how users rate individual articles and creates personalised recommendations for each user (yep, kinda like Amazon).
The sites and articles are also inserted into a web of trust, so when a new article/meme shows up, it inherits the trusts of its author and recommenders. The point is to be a leading indicator of interest and sniff out interesting news first...
To be fair, memigo parses a few blogs too (that tend to make news, rather than follow them, such as
Try it, you will be pleasantly suprised --yes, you need a login for the personal recommendations, but there is no requirement for any personal info, including any sort of e-mail address...
About the Waypath Project (Score:3, Interesting)
For those who can't be bothered to go and read it [waypath.com]/for when it gets Slashdotted:
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Sounds like a grim idea (Score:4, Interesting)
If an infinite number of bloggers write an infinite number of postings, and a search engine cross-references them all, does this give us anything more than Word Salad? If the site wasn't broken I'm curious enough to try it, but I'm sceptical. Most blogs are (possibly) interesting if you know the people: otherwise, they are about as thrilling as someone else's holiday snaps. And the most used category is going to be me me me...
Also, newsy weblogs such as /. end up being cross-referenced anyway, because sooner or later someone posts a 'hey have you seen what they are saying on...' message.
Sounds like daypop (Score:1)
This is not Beta, try alpha (Score:1)
Just stop now (Score:3, Insightful)
They're called "Web rings". You might remember them.
Asides from that, who the hell cares what some kid in Tacoma thinks about the NASA book? Or, for that matter, who the hell cares what a kid in Tacoma thinks about anything? No one.
WBELOGS == TEH GEYEST! Just stop.
Link weblogs ,eh? (Score:4, Funny)
But does it actually work? (Score:4, Interesting)
Blogdex: more better, less beta (Score:3, Informative)
I suppose (Score:5, Interesting)
Slow news day, huh /. ?
Confuse it (Score:2, Funny)
Unified weblog (Score:3, Informative)
~GoRK
heheh, they are feeling it... (Score:1)
Someone warned them
Offtopic, unattributed plagiarism--mod parent down (Score:1)
The Weblog MetaData Initiative (Score:4, Informative)
I like sites like this
I mean, Waypath is at one level convenient, but no more so than well established weblog communities such as
blo.gs [blo.gs], the Eaton WebPortal [eatonweb.com] and blogs4God [blogs4god.com]. Moreover, when it comes to gleaning headline news via a blog, I would suspect the real weapon of cohice would be our personal aggregators [byte.com] such as Amphetadesk [disobey.com] and HotSheet [johnmunsch.com]?
Which is where the WMDI comes in. It helps me identify sites via xml-ish mechanisms such as the Dublin Core Initiative [dublincore.org]
Then again, your mileage may vary.
BlogStreet (Score:1, Interesting)
Tangent (Score:2, Informative)
Last Post! (Score:1)
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