Amatomu Category Suggestion

Amatomu Category Suggestion

6 Comments 02 April 2007

Quick one…

Mayhaps a new category for Amotomu, those blogs that are actually multi-userÃ‚Â with many authors who have many ‘mini’ blogs within their main portals?

What do you South African bloggers think?

Have you read these yet?

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http://www.matthewbuckland.com matt
hey rafiq you have read our minds!!! just want vince and I were speaking about this morning… we are thinking about a way of separating or categorising multi-user blogs from single blogs…
its a tough one but we are thinking of definining single user blogs as 5 or less and multiuser as 5 or more… what do you think?
matt
http://www.vincentmaher.com Vincent Maher
We’re giving this some serious consideration though the problem is the following – making a group blog a category on its own means that the category distinctions aren’t that useful anymore, and a small percent of blogs are group blogs.
Any suggestions would be welcome
http://www.rafiq.za.net/blog Rafiq Phillips
TYFYC Vincent & Matt – what about not allowing aggregators/mutli-users platform to submit as a single blog becuase they contain many blogs, rather have the individual bloggers submit their blogs individually. instad of submitting mulit-user-blog.domain to amatomu, rather submit mutli-user-blog.domain/user1 /user1 /user3 etc. What you guys think?
http://www.vincentmaher.com Vincent Maher
yeah thats a good idea
http://dotnet.org.za/armand Armand du Plessis
I’ve removed the Amotomu script from a group site I’ve added (dotnet.org.za). It was submitted while killing time on an airport and I didn’t expect to see it at #1 when I got back to SA today
I like the last suggestion. There’s a big distinction between multi-user blogs, where multiple individuals are contributing to a single blog on an invitation basis, and an aggregation of multiple single blogs where registration is open to the public and the blogs are separate entities in their own right.
On the other hand on some of these group blogs, mine included, the majority of individual users will never submit their blogs for inclusion and the content would be excluded from Amatomu. So while I understand Rafiq’s concern I don’t think disallowing group blogs is the way to go, rather exclude them from rankings calculation if that is the main concern. Both rss and atom specifications include support for specifying the individual item author which can be used for search and display purposes.
Vince & Matt, great work on Amatomu!
http://www.matthewbuckland.com matthew Buckland
100% rafiq
and thanks for yr comment Armand… makes the job worthwhile ))
PS: we’re gonna add other metrics other than unique users… ie fast movers, most comments, most links etc etc…cos just measuring traffic shouldnt be the only metric!!