Aggravating
Paulie at InsideThePerimeter brought up a very valid point today, something that has been on my mind for a while, the explosion of blogs in atlbloggers.net. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great site to catch up on the comings and goings of the APWBWGTTD but the front page is becoming a bit chaotic, and the feed isn’t much better…
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t read that many blogs… My Bloglines account only has 40 blogs in it, and some of those havent been updated in a long time, and out of the 54 Atlanta blogs, I only read 9 or 10 on a regular basis so, like Paulie, I wish there was a way to filter the wheat from the chaff (so to speak).
Maybe I’ll mention it to the powers that be at the next meetup next month.
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I agree. It seems as though atlbloggers has gotten bombarded by a bunch of … well … less than interesting posts. When I say, less than interesting, I mean, to me, personally, I don’t even pay attention to posts by specific members.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and have come up with a few different solutions.
1. Something like Digg … where posts go to a queue and the posts that people like get selected for the front page. Of course, who will be the person or persons “digging” the posts? If it’s open to all, then has it really accomplished anything?
2. Asking bloggers to have a seperate feed for posts they wish to show up on atlbloggers. For example, WordPress allows a seperate feed for categories. If a member set up a APWBWGTTD category and selected it for only the posts they wanted to go to the site, that would cut down on a lot of nonsense. I’m not sure if this same feature is possible with other blogging platforms and even then, it puts the content censoring on the shoulders of each member so it may not work well.
3. Have logins for each member and allow the member to select which blogs to read… nice, but at this level of complexity, just add the individual blogs feeds to whatever newsreader you use.
4. Force snippets of posts so that complete posts don’t appear on the site. The user would have to click the link to the blogger’s site to read the whole article if the snippet intrigued them.
That’s just some of my ideas… would love to hear other ways to improve the community