Ross Mayfield: Cue up not what is popular, or what the people I subscribed to produced. Cue up what my social network has found interesting.
Herewith, a simple demonstration of what aggressive canonicalization can produce. Venus may be in Python, but suppose I’m in a Ruby mood. The cache is simply files in Atom 1.0 format, with all textual content normalized to XHTML.
Let’s make a few simplifying assumptions: all posts are created equal, each post can only vote once for any given link (this also takes care of things like summaries which partially repeat content), posts implicitly vote (once!) for themselves, and the weight of a vote degrades as the square of the distance between when the post was made and now.
Here’s the code, and here’s a snapshot of the output. The output took 6.239 elapsed seconds to produce on my laptop. I still have more work to do to eliminate some of the self-referential links (in fact, I a priori removed Bob Sutor’s blog from the analysis as it otherwise he would dominate the results). But I am confident that this is solvable, in fact, I am working on expanding what filters can do. I’ll post more on that shortly.
In any case, I will attest to the fact that the remaining links are current topics of conversation within my circle of friends.
As you can see, having ready access to this data, outside of any data silo, in a readily consumable format makes tasks like this fairly easy.
So, the question must be asked, why can’t every public (and private) planet produce a meme feed?
Every time I see Gabe Rivera of TechMeme, I ask for the same thing — MeMeme. Give me TechMeme where the core index is based on who I read, about 150 people at any given time, to show me what......
Sam Ruby’s doing wonders with his branch of the Planet Planet code, Venus . The core data is maintained as Atom (containing XHTML). A nice touch is that it now has FOAF blogroll support. I’m getting particular pleasure from what Sam’s been doing...
this is potentially fascinating, given that techmeme and the like tend to track things i don’t care much about, like the latest tiff in the blogging world...
Two of my favorite sites are TechMeme and Memeorandum - two great memediggers. Together with sites like TailRank, they give me alot of interesting stories without necessarily having to subscribe to a bunch of blogs. I subscribe to a bunch of blogs...
I’m facing another round of inquiries on personal filtering, mostly from Techmeme fans who’ve read Ross Mayfield’s or Dare Obasanjo’s recent thoughts on the matter. (Just for the record, the first round included requests from Jeff Clavier and Ted...
Sam Ruby: MeMeme this is potentially fascinating, given that techmeme and the like tend to track things i don’t care much about, like the latest tiff in the blogging world (tags: Planet Ruby Waugh Venus aggregation TechMeme MeMeme)......
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Every time I see Gabe Rivera of TechMeme , I ask for the same thing — MeMeme. Give me TechMeme where the core index is based on who I read, about 150 people at any given time, to show me what my friends are interested in. I used to ask...
Ross Mayfield wants a version of TechMeme focused on his own trust circle: Give me TechMeme where the core index is based on who I read, about 150 people at any given time, to show me what my friends are interested in. [Ross Mayfield: Between...
Every time I see Gabe Rivera of TechMeme, I ask for the same thing — MeMeme. Give me TechMeme where the core index is based on who I read, about 150 people at any given time, to show me what my friends are interested in.I used to ask this from...
Linkorama : MeMeme - Sam Ruby starts to hack together the MeMeme I want Paul Hammond : Sam Ruby: MeMeme - the remaining links are current topics of conversation within my circle of friends Tags : aggregation mememe personalization social...
Sam Ruby has been writing about using a planet-style aggregator to create a feed of what’s hot among a community of bloggers (see MeMeme and MeMeme 2.0) — not the big wide noisy blogosphere. Like meme-trackers TechMeme and TailRank, Sam’s code is...
Recently, there’s been a number of interesting posts on building personal blog aggregators. This really does seem like the next thing that is going to make some blog company succesful since just there’s just too many feeds to read. Global......
By nikolaj Recently, there’s been a number of interesting posts on building personal blog aggregators. This really does seem like the next thing that is going to make some blog company succesful since just there’s just too many feeds to read. Global...
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Sam Ruby has been giving out plenty of examples from his version of the Planet software, called Venus. Here are the posts so far: Reading Lists, Filters, MeMeme, Stream Editing. For me, what this needs is to be hooked up to a real database. So the...
i had an idea for a new feature to add to blog-la-sphere: by looking at what people in the blog-la-sphere are linking to, generate a list of the most-blogged-about items. the problem i ran into is that once i pulled out all the links, it turns out...
MeMeme support is now a plugin to Venus. It started out life as a Ruby script with hardcoded paths that produced JSON which was fetched using AJAX techniques. While it has been deployed by others ...
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