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Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

mags — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:07:53 -0000

you should try condron.us. :D

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

MichaelMuse — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:56:18 -0000

I understand this. I use a site called www.socialmedian.com who i think would be the perfect candidate to do something like this (they are like delicious but specifically for news and blogs).

I think if you are going to autoshare, you need a list of relevant sources. You could use an index of blogs, but that still leaves out the option to manually add something of interest. Thats why I recommend a news discussion/blog sharing site like socialmedian.

I posted a comment on their getsatisfaction page. If anybody is with me, click 'I have this problem too' and maybe they will do something about it. http://bit.ly/eaeD4

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

Cory Levy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:44:05 -0000

Would you say Digg does something like this? It is not a feed reader, however it is a place where people discover 'links' to popular stories.

Is there something you would want to add to Digg?

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

kortina — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:22:10 -0000

The rapidity with which this came into being is exactly why I love the
internet. Very cool.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:14:27 -0000

Sweet

I'm thinking of running a one to two month bakeoff of all of these

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:02:08 -0000

I've got a blogroll that does what I want up on avc now that was built by one of the readers

Its not perfect yet but its a start

I blogged about it this morning

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:00:12 -0000

Yup. I want my data (not back but at least shared with me)

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

JpMaxMan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:35:19 -0000

RSS seems to be much more pervasive than Blogs these days. As you say, I guess you could query technorati or some such:

http://technorati.com/blogs...

Another thought is you could look in the <head> of the page for the generator or just in general for a keyword match like "typepad" , "wordpress" , etc... that would probably get 90% then you'd have to manually add.

It seems #5 on your blogrollr tweaks is exactly this issue.. I'll be interested to see how it evolves :) On a side note it has been a treat to follow all this... and I found it all because you're a "friend of Dave's" - which make it even more so!

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

kortina — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:17:10 -0000

Hmm, I see. So you're looking for the equivalent of "top bands" as opposed
to "top songs." That is a pretty simple problem I'm sure one of the talented
readers here could whip up a solution to in a day (if nothing like this
exists already).

As a consumer of this type of data, seeing your list of top blogs doesn't
help me so much because I really don't want to subscribe to another rss
feed. What I want as someone seeking curated content from people whose
opinions I respect is a list of particular articles to read. Eg, suppose
you, john b, and josh k all read a particular article. If you are all in
some network I'm following, that article should bubble up as something
important for me to look at.

I have a hunch the top content vs. top publisher model would result in
better signal/noise ratio. It is however, a bit harder problem, and it
relies on some social filtering, whereas your blogroll idea only requires a
single person (you) inputting data to create a list of blogs I should read.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

Amit Agarwal — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:50:24 -0000

I use this mindmap as a blogroll http://www.labnol.org/websi...

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

arjunram — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:33:18 -0000

I agree! A very simple way to do it would be through a browser plugin, but privacy concerns exist (atleast for me).

I wonder if any analysis of backtype + twitter links (posted + favorites) + delicous + friendfeed likes would do the trick!

The underlying theme that is emerging is this, we have all given our data in the web20 era & now we are demanding information back. I wrote about it at http://arjunram.com/2008/12...

Thoughts welcome!

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:54 -0000

Thanks for letting me know

Usually when I have these issues, it’s because of some funky flash video
player

I’ll keep a lookout for more of these issues

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:51 -0000

I use both

Windows in the office

Mac everywhere else

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:47 -0000

That would be a major improvement but honestly the thing I am rebelling
against is the tyranny of the list

I don't want to keep a list of blogs I like

That's creating a subset of the web and the thing I love about the web is
its enormity

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:44 -0000

It's still reading feeds though

I've moved beyond that and now just follow links

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:41 -0000

I use typepad but I knew what you meant

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:37 -0000

I've tried

When is enough enough?

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:34 -0000

There are a bunch of companies that have collected/built large indexes of
blogs

I'd start there and let users add more

There's also the suggestion others have made about looking for an RSS feed

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:31 -0000

Kortina

I don't want to list every blog I visit. I just want to compile top ten in
the past week or month (or both)

That creates the signal out of the noise in the scrobble

Last.fm in theory has the same signal/noise issue, but when looking at the
top lists, I get great results

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:27 -0000

No, I want to list the blogs I read most frequently, but I want that
calculated for me and I want it to be dynamic and change over time

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:24 -0000

There are some blogs I read very frequently but never comment on

Some tumblogs I love don't even have comments

So while I agree that this is really useful info, it's not perfect

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:23:21 -0000

Cool. I'll check it out

Thanks

fred

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

Larry M — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:21:15 -0000

Here is my hackjob of an scrobble experiment. It's amazing what you can get done while waiting for your car to get fixed.
A Greasemonkey script that will log all pages you visit that have a feed associated. That should cover most blogs, news etc. WSJ doesn't play nice (but that's for later). You can't use a list of known blog domains because of installs on personal domains (avc.com for example).
You can see what I browsed by going to http://www.ironmonkeyventur...
Anyone interested in signing up can go to http://www.ironmonkeyventur...

PS. If you don't use Greasemonkey, I can zip up a Firefox extension too.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

RacerRick — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:42 -0000

130 comments!

If you Bit.ly everything you, read... then you could blogroll it via a neat javascript or serverside widget.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

stoweboyd — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:48:32 -0000

Check out http://bit.ly/m060C where I riff on streamrolling a bit more.