[Tagdb] Tag Planet?

[Nitin Borwankar]

Hi Philipp,

Thanks for starting and driving this. Sorry I haven't been able to 
participate as much as I would like - a bunch of work has popped up with 
everyone wanting things by the end of the year.  A good thing so I am 
not complaining ....  But I am not sleeping a lot.

About the feed I agree it would be an excellent thing.  My preference 
would be to have a blog with  one person ( or a small group ) editing, 
and  have an RSS feed off that blog.  This would prevent junk postings 
from making it into the feed.   The setup using delicious suffers from 
the problem that the tagschema user has to be watching the posts pretty 
much all the time to grab junk proactively - this could get bad fast.  
And if the feed starts having junk slipping through then in a short 
while people will stop reading it.  The blog approach allows posts to 
accumulate and the editor(s) can approve once a day or so and we can be 
assured of far better quality.  If Simpy has a way to moderate and share 
postings perhaps that might work.
If clippings.tagschema.com needs to be used let me know the machine 
details and I can do the needful DNS thing.

Of course there is the very simple, unfashionable but widely used 
mechanism of the email list - clippings at lists.tagschema.com with a group 
of moderators would work fine as well.  It would be a read only list at 
first and could become a discussion list if it made sense.

So let me know what needs to be done and I'll be glad to help including 
hosting the blog at my textdrive ( www.textdrive.com ) account or 
redirecting to whatever blog we choose.

Thanks again for running with this, it is an excellent thing for the 
community.

I promise I will be posting comments about your  previous posts in the 
next few days.

Nitin Borwankar




Philipp Keller wrote:

>Hi Colin!
>
>Thanks for replying..
>
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>
>>Just tag an interesting article, put a summary or 
>>why-you-should-read-this in the "notes" field, and include a 
>>"for:tagschema" tag as well (or some other username).  Then, you can 
>>simply parse that user's links and display the list.
>>    
>>
>Yeah, I've thought about something like this..
>but the downsides:
>- the "extended field" on del.icio.us is not big enough for my gusto.. 
>- anyone can post to the feed. I kindof don't like that idea.. but maybe
>that's just me..?
>
>Michal Migursky wrote me off-list:
>  
>
>>Also, regarding your thoughts on a tag-thought clipping blog - how  
>>about running it with something like Reblog, a project I co-mantain  
>>with Eyebeam? http://reblog.org.
>>    
>>
>I quickly skimmed through the info pages and it sounds promising, he
>adds:
>
>  
>
>>Out of the box, almost [multiuser capable]. We are farming the 
>>multi-user features out to Drupal, and finishing that work this week 
>>or next. I'll keep you in this loop if you are interested - 2.0 beta 
>>is almost ready to replace the current 2.0 alpha release.
>>    
>>
>So I thought we'd wait a week or two and then set up this reblog and
>then whoever wants to join that reblog can join..?
>
>Regarding the DNS issue: would be cool to have a clippings.tagschema.com
>or something.. Nitin?
>
>greets
>Philipp
>
>
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