[osol-mktg] Tagging, metadata (Was: top-right jumble...)

[Eric Boutilier]

Tim Foster wrote:

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>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 17:17 -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote:
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>>The best single thing we could do in this regard is get blog posts that 
>>are newletter-worthy tagged on del.icio.us (or similar). Ideally this 
>>would be done by the bloggers themselves right after they post a new 
>>entry. (Using a browser bookmarklet, it takes only seconds to post and 
>>tag a new blog entry to del.icio.us.)
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>I'm not convinced metadata is the solution to the world's
>indexing/retrieval problems yet.
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True (not yet anyway. ;-)

More below...

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>Yes if you can persuade every OpenSolaris blogger to stick to the system
>and have the capability of wielding a big stick on those who don't -
>otherwise, or potentially not care about missing interesting content
>that was tagged incorrectly or not at all.
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Yeah, I suppose at this stage a lot of bloggers probably wouldn't be 
motivated enough to get the tagging right.

So with that in mind, I just did a little proof-of-concept using LISA 05 
as the target. I threw together a few commands that generated the 
following list of blog posts made between 11/1 and 12/31 with LISA in 
the title:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/lisaweek?entry=nfsv4_and_zfs_acls
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=zfs_smf_zones_and_dtrace
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dp?entry=off_to_lisa_2005
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sch?entry=lisa05_tuesday
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sch?entry=lisa05_tuesday_device_errors_iostat
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sch?entry=lisa05_wednesday_autopod_and_pki
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dp?entry=back_from_lisa_off_to
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sch?entry=lisa_thursday_reception_s
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sch?entry=lisa05_friday

Then I scrounged around for free tools that automatically batch upload 
and tag links lists (like the one above) to del.icio.us (or furl, or 
whatever). There are several. Here's my favorite:

    http://overstated.net/projects/del.icio.us/delicious_import.pl

So in other words, doing what I think the newsletter needs the most -- 
which is to have each item point to a link-list of blog posts about that 
item -- could be mostly (99%?) automated.

Eric
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