I was just noticing that John Montgomery’s post on a potential “Live” version of Visual Studio kicked off a ton of comments. That got me thinking about Memeorandum. Memeorandum shows you blogs that have gotten linked to (the more links, the higher up on the page it goes). But no one is showing you posts that have received a ton of comments. That’d be useful. Particularly for something like photos. I’ve noticed that about 5% (or less) of my Flickr photos get commented on and the ones that do get comments are usually my more interesting photos.
Sounds like a new way to bring cool stuff onto Memeorandum and other sites like it (like TailRank and Blogniscient).
Scobleizer 
Flickr has feeds for just about everything BUT the “your popular photos” sections, which does everything like you are talking about, but it’s not public and is only your photos.
Good call. I bet it wouldn’t be that much work for them to implement what you’re talking about (or for someone else to build something really cool that is like that), but clearly there is opportunity waiting for someone to strike.
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Flickr has feeds for just about everything BUT the “your popular photos” sections, which does everything like you are talking about, but it’s not public and is only your photos.
Good call. I bet it wouldn’t be that much work for them to implement what you’re talking about (or for someone else to build something really cool that is like that), but clearly there is opportunity waiting for someone to strike.
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This reminds me of the difference between YouTube.com’s most viewed video list and most discussed video list. The most viewed list contains a lot of videos with inticing titles, screen caps and tags, but the videos most commented on are usually much more interesting and substantial.
In this case, an article’s link inside another blog’s post could be considered just as significant as a comment by a reader. Both require thought and effort, both reference the original post. It seems like Memorandum should take comments into account, but I would’nt imgine that a list of posts ranked by comment count are any more interesting than those ranked by linkage.
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This reminds me of the difference between YouTube.com’s most viewed video list and most discussed video list. The most viewed list contains a lot of videos with inticing titles, screen caps and tags, but the videos most commented on are usually much more interesting and substantial.
In this case, an article’s link inside another blog’s post could be considered just as significant as a comment by a reader. Both require thought and effort, both reference the original post. It seems like Memorandum should take comments into account, but I would’nt imgine that a list of posts ranked by comment count are any more interesting than those ranked by linkage.
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Wouldn’t work since meme’s content get’s changed every 5 minutes. What’s hot one hour is gone the next.
I still plead with my battle cry for someone to develop an RSS reader that has a meme engine in it to see everything that is crosslinked, quoted, and talked about.
One can only dream!
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Wouldn’t work since meme’s content get’s changed every 5 minutes. What’s hot one hour is gone the next.
I still plead with my battle cry for someone to develop an RSS reader that has a meme engine in it to see everything that is crosslinked, quoted, and talked about.
One can only dream!
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Sploggers thank you for such a great idea, Scoble.
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Sploggers thank you for such a great idea, Scoble.
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As Stefan said, it will have to check for website/blog updates every 30 seconds or so which is not really cool and not all posts are hot when they are on Memeorandum, some get hotter when they are off memeo..
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As Stefan said, it will have to check for website/blog updates every 30 seconds or so which is not really cool and not all posts are hot when they are on Memeorandum, some get hotter when they are off memeo..
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Yes please. I think that those search people have a long, long way to go to show us the stuff that we want to see and this looks like one of the pieces.
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Yes please. I think that those search people have a long, long way to go to show us the stuff that we want to see and this looks like one of the pieces.
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The posts that get commented the most are usually Google, Mac and Microsoft ones. So just do a keyword search for those three.
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The posts that get commented the most are usually Google, Mac and Microsoft ones. So just do a keyword search for those three.
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We’ll soon support Delicious and Simpy for tuning ranking and comments are already a factor in TailRank.
They’ll have more importance here soon as I’m about to push some robot updates.
Kevin
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We’ll soon support Delicious and Simpy for tuning ranking and comments are already a factor in TailRank.
They’ll have more importance here soon as I’m about to push some robot updates.
Kevin
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Why don’t we do away with comments and just blog our responses? Like Matt’s ‘asides’ in WordPress, just make ourselves a ‘Comments’ category and stick them somewhere less prominent (or not in the feed). Wait, this is a comment isn’t it? Damn hard habit to break…
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Why don’t we do away with comments and just blog our responses? Like Matt’s ‘asides’ in WordPress, just make ourselves a ‘Comments’ category and stick them somewhere less prominent (or not in the feed). Wait, this is a comment isn’t it? Damn hard habit to break…
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To add to what Tejas said above …
As a publisher I’d much rather push out comment data to a few places – like pinging – rather than a fury of bots hitting our site sucking down the same info. The bigger your site gets, the more popular, the more stress you get from bots. It’s already an insane ratio of bots to people, especially if you do any podcasting.
A system that invites even more bot activity to a single non-aggregated source when the payoff in traffic is marginal (Google, Yahoo, MSN and a few other bots aside) seems very resource intensive with little payoff.
If the SE bots want to come more often, we’d welcome that of course 🙂
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To add to what Tejas said above …
As a publisher I’d much rather push out comment data to a few places – like pinging – rather than a fury of bots hitting our site sucking down the same info. The bigger your site gets, the more popular, the more stress you get from bots. It’s already an insane ratio of bots to people, especially if you do any podcasting.
A system that invites even more bot activity to a single non-aggregated source when the payoff in traffic is marginal (Google, Yahoo, MSN and a few other bots aside) seems very resource intensive with little payoff.
If the SE bots want to come more often, we’d welcome that of course 🙂
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yeeh. it’s called slashdot?
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yeeh. it’s called slashdot?
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I respectfully disagree with that idea, Robert.
It’s a self-perpetuating loop… a VERY common mistake in a lot of Web services. By highlighting what’s popular, you simply entice more people to access that particular article or resource, thus making it more popular. That’s why “Top 10” lists tend to be, at least over time, stultifyingly boring.
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I respectfully disagree with that idea, Robert.
It’s a self-perpetuating loop… a VERY common mistake in a lot of Web services. By highlighting what’s popular, you simply entice more people to access that particular article or resource, thus making it more popular. That’s why “Top 10” lists tend to be, at least over time, stultifyingly boring.
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