Comments on: What I’d Like to See: A Start-Up Blog Aggregator http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/ Web producer. Writer. Online Media Cultist. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:46:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Ian Kennedy http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1686 Ian Kennedy Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:32:26 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1686 Could you mash this together with an OPML file of all the start-up blog RSS feeds? Check out Niall Kennedy's startupsearch.org - each company has a profile with an RSS feed which could certainly be used to pull this stuff together. Great idea! Could you mash this together with an OPML file of all the start-up blog RSS feeds? Check out Niall Kennedy’s startupsearch.org - each company has a profile with an RSS feed which could certainly be used to pull this stuff together.

Great idea!

]]> By: Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1687 Eric Berlin Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:03:04 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1687 Thanks Ian! Yes, essentially the crux of such an operation would be the ability to pull in tons of content via rss and make sense of it. Looks like that's the direction that Startup Search is taking, and they even run a "Weekly Web Wrap-up" which does some of what I'm suggesting already. Hmm... now I'm getting tempted to get this rocking. Only so many hours in the day, argh! :-) Thanks Ian!

Yes, essentially the crux of such an operation would be the ability to pull in tons of content via rss and make sense of it. Looks like that’s the direction that Startup Search is taking, and they even run a “Weekly Web Wrap-up” which does some of what I’m suggesting already.

Hmm… now I’m getting tempted to get this rocking. Only so many hours in the day, argh! :-)

]]> By: Sprague http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1688 Sprague Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:33:30 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1688 Re-purposing content has copyright and compensation implications. As the Geniuses at Google (GAG) have carefully sidestepped, to date. Hate to be a Web 1.0 fussbudget, but at some point don't all these "mash ups" have to acknowledge that they depend upon someone else's work to... well, work? Re-purposing content has copyright and compensation implications. As the Geniuses at Google (GAG) have carefully sidestepped, to date.

Hate to be a Web 1.0 fussbudget, but at some point don’t all these “mash ups” have to acknowledge that they depend upon someone else’s work to… well, work?

]]> By: Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1689 Eric Berlin Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:26:45 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1689 I think ideally it would be fine in terms of copyright, using links, selected quotes (nothing longer than a paragraph or two at a chunk) and smart, pithy, witty annotation! ;-) I think ideally it would be fine in terms of copyright, using links, selected quotes (nothing longer than a paragraph or two at a chunk) and smart, pithy, witty annotation! ;-)

]]> By: kob http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1720 kob Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:39:28 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1720 I do agree with the poster who raises the content approval issue. I run dcblogs.com/live which is a local blog aggregation. It's permission based. Not all local bloggers want the visibility a feed provides and some don't want to participate in it. Even if you feel that copyright and fair use protect aggregators, its community buy-in that's really critical to winning support for your model. In terms of settng up an aggregation engine, the first hurtle is populating a database that the engine works off. There are thousands of tech blogs and any feed is going to spitting dozens of posts every minute. It becomes mind-numbing unless. The best example of a comprehensive aggregation tool that doesn't need a database is Digg, which relies on eyeballs. I would like to see http://tech.blogrunner.com/ or http://www.techmeme.com/ become more expansive and drill down deeper into the tech blogosphere, but my guess is that they really don't know how to sort and measure the value of that content. I do agree with the poster who raises the content approval issue.

I run dcblogs.com/live which is a local blog aggregation. It’s permission based. Not all local bloggers want the visibility a feed provides and some don’t want to participate in it. Even if you feel that copyright and fair use protect aggregators, its community buy-in that’s really critical to winning support for your model.

In terms of settng up an aggregation engine, the first hurtle is populating a database that the engine works off. There are thousands of tech blogs and any feed is going to spitting dozens of posts every minute. It becomes mind-numbing unless.

The best example of a comprehensive aggregation tool that doesn’t need a database is Digg, which relies on eyeballs. I would like to see http://tech.blogrunner.com/ or http://www.techmeme.com/ become more expansive and drill down deeper into the tech blogosphere, but my guess is that they really don’t know how to sort and measure the value of that content.

]]> By: Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1723 Eric Berlin Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:14:58 +0000 http://onlinemediacultist.com/2007/08/24/what-id-like-to-see-a-start-up-blog-aggregator/#comment-1723 The more I think about it, I think that my idea isn't quite an aggregator as much as a news service. Therefore, I believe the concerns about intellectual property or copyright won't be an issue. Essentially, I'm looking at having a human editor (or editors) hand-select interesting things going on at tech company blogs each day and link to them with selective and concise use of quoting, and "value added" annotations provided by the editor(s) to give the site a voice and spice things up where appropriate. The more I think about it, I think that my idea isn’t quite an aggregator as much as a news service. Therefore, I believe the concerns about intellectual property or copyright won’t be an issue. Essentially, I’m looking at having a human editor (or editors) hand-select interesting things going on at tech company blogs each day and link to them with selective and concise use of quoting, and “value added” annotations provided by the editor(s) to give the site a voice and spice things up where appropriate.

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