James Tauber's Blog 2005/01/20
Tim on Tags
Tim Bray has a great post on tags. Some of the topics:
- technorati tags versus using dc:subject
- URIs for tags and rolling your own versus using someone else's
- tagging the html page (with link) versus other techniques which will include the tag in the feed entry
- the value of specifying a scheme to ground the meaning of a category / tag
plus some great closing questions, none of which I have answers for myself, except maybe why I think I need categories in Leonardo.
Here are two user stories I wrote on the Leonardo mailing list:
Story #1: Albert occasionally says some good things about FOO on his blog and Planet FOO is interested in aggregating them. However, they don't want to aggregate Albert's non-FOO posts so they'd like a feed just of his FOO topics.Story #2: Betty is working on a project and provides updates on her blog. She'd like to have a page that just contains the entries relating to this project.
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Comparison with A-List Blogger
Not sure if he would call himself an A-List Blogger, but Jeremy Wright's blog is certainly right up there. He's just published some stats so I thought it would be interesting to do a comparison between him and someone whose blog is a little further down the Long Tail (me!)
PubSub Rank: 441 versus 43,827
Technorati Rank: 1,458 versus 34,528
Monthly visitors: 208,000 versus either 8,000 (unique IP) or 36,000 (visits)
Monthly pageviews: 510,000 versus 92,000
But here is an interesting one that I looked up directly:
Bloglines subscribers: 207 versus 144
Which raises the interesting question: why does Jeremy have so few Bloglines subscribers given his other stats?
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