I've been thinking about LJ's limitations that bother me recently, and all this DreamWidth activity has got me wanting to post about it
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Wouldn't that depend on the other blogger using tags exactly how you would want them to use tags? Otherwise you'd miss posts you want to see and be shown posts you don't.
It's an interesting idea, I'm just not convinced it would be possible to set up and have actually work while letting people design and label their blogs how they want to.
(for what it's worth, I believe Dreamwidth plans to fully interact with google analytics, which I think means you can search journals more effectively, but I'm not positive)
You could probably define your own labels and then have a learned best matching to your tags for untagged or 'mis-tagged' posts. E.g. food would be pretty easy, since recipes look distinct from, say, article summaries.
(Or maybe I just look for any excuse to stick learning in a system... ;) )
It would require the reader and read to agree, but how I imagine that would work would be that someone like Patri who posts about poker, family, seasteading, and politics a lot would end up with posts "tagged" with those topics and his blog would have, at the top of its list of tags, those tags. Or it could be more like Flickr's photostreams--poststreams. You could also use readers' tags for posts.
And it would be inexact. But it would increase the signal-to-noise ratio of lots of people (where signal is defined as the posts you're interested in and noise as those you aren't).
Aside: a global "no politics" filter may be pretty popular.
It sounds like you want something more like a feed reader than like a social networking site. I'd say that's not something LJ is optimized for; With the increasing amount of interop between different types of blog/feed/etc. it may eventually become possible to view the blogs of people on LJ (etc.) through a reader that can process the tag info and is optimized for content-based filtering rather than user-based filtering, without losing access priveleges; I think OpenID's supposed to help with that?
Just some thoughts. No coherent "oh, you should try this" answer, but some idea of where the answer may eventually be found.
I think LiveJournal's already more like a feed reader than a social networking site. Most social networking sites have gone far, far further than LJ's blog+friends "social networking".
mm, I don't mean social networking like that. I mean... It is focused on reading people's journals because they're "your friends" and you want to know what they're up to, not because you have shared interests (this is of course overly idealistic, since even if person A likes person B, person A will still likely yell at person B to "LJ-cut those long fanfics! I don't care about them!") Dreamwidth may be less centered around that concept because they have the "I subscribe to this person's journal, but it doesn't mean I trust them" model.
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It's an interesting idea, I'm just not convinced it would be possible to set up and have actually work while letting people design and label their blogs how they want to.
(for what it's worth, I believe Dreamwidth plans to fully interact with google analytics, which I think means you can search journals more effectively, but I'm not positive)
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(Or maybe I just look for any excuse to stick learning in a system... ;) )
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And it would be inexact. But it would increase the signal-to-noise ratio of lots of people (where signal is defined as the posts you're interested in and noise as those you aren't).
Aside: a global "no politics" filter may be pretty popular.
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Just some thoughts. No coherent "oh, you should try this" answer, but some idea of where the answer may eventually be found.
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