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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12 responses to “Aggravating”
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
I agree. I hate stupid del.icio.us links instead of actual posts. Aggravating.
The del.icio.us links, slew of images posted w/o any content associated, posting links to news articles w/o any unique content… the list goes on… waaaaaay too many posts on religion… ie, 3-4 a day from one site. I’m not hating… I’m just saying…
Sadly I’m guilty of images posted without any content provided… But yeah, del.icio.us links are a pain and I had noticed the rise in religious stuff too.
I was just thinking about this last night. Crazy. I like the idea of being able to select which blogs you see or even if they only showed previews, that could work too.
Can I get an AMEN?!
(c’mon, that was funny)
Yeah, as I mentioned in my blog I now need a filter for the aggregator.
I agree, but I’m also one who is guilty of the del.icio.us link posting. But the thing is, that’s what I use my del.icio.us links for. I usually put a little comment in the comment section and that’s in lieu of going through the motions of a full blog post for linking to just an article.
My main use of atlbloggers.net now is I go there about once a day and just swing through the front page to find anything interesting. Like most blogs, sometimes there is and sometimes there isn’t.
I think that we all see it just getting overwhelming; there are people that literally post 3-5 times a day, and that bumps everyone else right off the main page. It is frustrating to see that all the same stuff is posted (such as links), and tends to not even be interesting… unlike it was when I joined a few months ago.
Maybe we could break it up by subject headers too? We could have blogs grouped together, or have several different groups within ATLbloggers… This was inevitable, as we all knew our coolness would catch on.
I also like the snippet idea; because that would pretty much eliminate the link dumping.
I was thinking a little more about this and I think it would be nice to see those blogs that you most desire to see, but then you don’e really get the chance to be introduced to new blogs. So here’s an idea – it would be nice if you could see the ones you want to see plus you could “suggest” a particular post to everyone. The top five or so with the most suggestions within the last, say, 24 hours, would appear on everyone’s page. That way we would still have the opportunity to see new blogs/read on blogs we don’t read every day/etc. You know, like on Digg or Newsvine or something.
I’m sure that’s a lot more programming than is worth it though… just dreaming over here…
[…] As mentioned on other sites and discussed with my fellow Atlanta bloggers at the monthly meet ups, the atlbloggers.net site, where this blog is syndicated, is getting over-run with an insane amount of posts. There are so many posts in fact that I’ve recently started bypassing the site and heading directly to the blogs that interest me the most (duanemoody dot com, mingaling, bobafred, maigh, Mostly Muppet, Welcome to Vicklanta, Mr. P’body’s Place). This is in no way a jab at the other blogs syndicated on atlbloggers.net, and I still check the site regularly to catch up on goings-on of the other members. Anyways, in an attempt to do my part in reducing the number of posts I send to atlbloggers.net, I’ve created a new category called APWBWGTTD and have already sent an email to the atlbloggers.net admins to change the requested feed for my site to http://dailydoseofdave.net/category/APWBWGTTD/feed/. Now, whenever I have a post that I deem syndicate-worthy, I’ll add it to that category and through the magic of aggregation, it will appear on the atlbloggers.net site. I encourage my fellow APWBWGTTD brethern that use WordPress to do the same as it is a very easy change to make an inherent functionality of WP. I believe Movable Type has a similar category/feed functionalty available via a plugin if that’s your platform, too. […]
I agree. All good suggestions. We’ve actually been tossing around a few ideas (some of which are listed above, and in progress) about how best to deal with it.