Read/Write WebRichard MacManus' weblog about the Two-Way Web.More on weblog topics- July 7, 2003 Couple of interesting comments to my last post. Harvey Kirkpatrick from itopik wrote: "I would argue that all the efforts are complementary and can be automated by some and humanified by others. We are choosing to humanify a bit the process hoping to be a bit more intelligent in our organization as Yahoo was in the beginning. Seeing linkages that perhaps software might miss. Granted slower, but in the end a lower signal to noise ratio we think." It's a good point - we humans have...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105304/2003/07/07.html#a76 Organizing weblogs by topic- July 4, 2003 My post in response to Clay Shirky's article on Corante generated some interesting discussion. The time is ripe to discuss weblog topics, thanks to innovative new tools such as k-collector, Phillip Pearson's Topic Exchange, and itopik. I want to address a few points about organizing weblog posts by topic. 1) I still believe authorship is important. I have favourite bloggers who I will read no matter what topic they write on. They are authoritative voices and I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105304/2003/07/04.html#a75 Weblogs should be topic-first, not author-first- July 2, 2003 Clay Shirky (via Ross Mayfield): "The weblog world has taken the 4 elements of organization from mailing lists and usenet -- overall topic, time of post, post title, author -- and rearranged them in order of importance as author, time, and title, dispensing with topics altogether." This is something that makes me a little queezy about weblogs. If I had my way, I'd rank the importance of topics as number 1. I would like my RSS Aggregator to deliver RSS feeds to me based on topics that I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105304/2003/07/02.html#a74 CM for the masses- July 1, 2003 Some quotes on the theme of content management (CM)... Gerry McGovern: "The Web may have been the almost exclusive domain of techies. Today, it is increasingly the domain of communicators." Bill Gates: "Whether it's handling a classified ad or handling editorials, the authoring tools for these things no longer require an IT department to be involved. The actual tools that the reporters, the managers are working with can understand XML." Matthew Berk: "In five years, content management...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105304/2003/07/01.html#a73 |