[osol-mktg] Re: Extending the reach of blogs posts

[Eric Boutilier]

Laura Ramsey wrote:

>Eric Boutilier wrote:
>  
>
>>I had an idea over the weekend that the "Digg" concept can be a good 
>>way to help extend the reach of posts about OpenSolaris being made by 
>>OpenSolaris enthusiasts. With that in mind, here are submissions I 
>>made over the weekend:
>>
>>http://digg.com/users/opensolarisLnks/submitted
>>
>>Note also that the the nickname I'm using is "opensolarisLnks" to 
>>indicate the singular focus of the articles submitted via this account.
>>
>>Why digg.com? Well, tech people are always looking for better ways to 
>>filter technology news, and it seems to me the wide-open 
>>thumbs-up/down concept is a good one. The Wisdom of Crowds[1] kinda 
>>thing.
>>
>>For further reading, here's a list of "popular" write-ups about Digg 
>>via Del.icio.us:
>>
>>http://del.icio.us/popular/digg
>>
>>Of course it has it's detractors too, for example, Russell Beattie, 
>>thinks the voting system is flawed. See:
>>
>>http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008772.html
>>
>>Eric
>>
>>[1]:http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/
>>
>>    
>>
>Cross posting to opensolaris marketing alias...
>
>
>Eric:
>should we "federate friends" so we can view eachother's other tags as 
>well? That might be another cool way to network content. Many people 
>have different user names on digg than on opensolaris...so how could we 
>publish that membership list?
>
>LKR
>

Laura,

Correct me if I'm wrong: Sounds like you mean trying to have people to 
fill in a master user-ID table; maybe indexed by OpenSolaris ID, like this:

os.o ID(key), del.icio.us, digg.com, flickr, genunix ...
-------------------------------------------------------
ericb,       bootblog,     paco, eric_boutilier, ericb ....
johndoe,     solguy,       jdoe, johnny,         johnd
etc..

I think that's a _very_ cool idea.  The percentage of people willing to 
enter/update their data will determine success though.

As for logistics, people could go to their opensolaris.org profile and 
put in the data, then someone could fairly easily gather and compile it. 
Or here's a wild idea: Everyone could go open tabs (w/out logging in) to 
your main pages on social/tagging sites you have accounts on and tag 
them in del.icio.us using two specific tags. How about: osomember 
<sitedomain>. For example:

Tags: osomember flickr.com

Because only two tags are required, this only takes a few minutes 
(assuming one already has an account on del.icio.us, that is).

OK, I just went and did it for 6 of mine... (MAN, this stuff has huge 
potential!) So as of now, the following new index pages (with feeds) exist:

Master list:

http://del.icio.us/tag/osomember
       Links to all home pages (on Flickr, Genunix, <whatever>) of 
participating people (only me so far)


----

Group, subset pages:

http://del.icio.us/tag/osomember+flickr.com
       Links to participating peoples' Flickr pages (only me so far)

http://del.icio.us/tag/osomember+del.icio.us
       Links to participating peoples' Delicious pages (only me so far)

(etc...)

----

Individuals' pages:

http://del.icio.us/bootblog/osomember
      Links to my  pages (I've put in Flickr, Digg, Frappr, Delicious, 
Genunix, and OpenSolaris)

http://del.icio.us/bootblog/frappr.com
      A solitary link to my Frappr page

(etc...)

Eric
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