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more on site-wide search,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 10:16 am1. More info on the site wide search. In summary, it seems that
a) The site-wide search will ONLY be for public posts. Posts that you have permission to see may be searched using journal search (which is a paid feature)
b) They don't have plans to exempt an individual entry from search.
c) Currently everyone who opts out of being indexable by search engines is automatically opted out of the DW sitewide search. I'm guessing that just as with search engines, in the default setting will be to have site-wide search on.
I wonder what percentage of LJ and DW users have search engine search turned off?
2. Wordpress's P2 theme is interesting. It's sort of like Twitter on 'roids, or like the Facebook stream. It also reminds me of Tumblr, in that there's a "post box" right on the screen. [It does make sense for Tumblr that the default screen is merely the feed of people who you are following, as that is what people are most interested in, with an option to post at the top.]
On the phatic nature of Twitter.
On the Evolution of Blogging. The main point seems to be "There needs to be more real-time collaboration built into these systems. They need to become socially relevant. They need to take into account that today, consumption and creation happen not just on traditional computing systems like a laptop, but also on highly mobile devices."
3. A post soliciting suggestions and comments on the proposed DW image hosting service.(eh... I've never found it a very important feature of LJ, except for the security features, which I wonder won't eventually be implementable in say Flickr or something through OpenAuth or something: in other words people can be preapproved for viewing photos when they log in with their LJ or whatever accounts.)
4. Intriguing article on what snark means for online communities (the stable state?), based off of this post.
"Flippancy works best for people who already agree with you in principle. Jokes and references have to be gotten; irony and sarcasm need to be picked up. They’re fun when they’re for you. The earnest, thorough stuff, on the other hand, has to waste its fun doing the boring work of reaching out to all possible listeners—explaining where it’s coming from, inserting caveats, acknowledging exceptions and counter-arguments, etc. It builds a case; flippancy gets to just dance entertainingly on a case. One is the way you talk to people who get you, the other is the way you explain yourself to people who don’t. Teenagers are really amazing at one and often really poor at the other; they like being gotten, and they haven’t collected much information yet about what other people’s assumptions even are."
"it’s just plain funnier and more exciting and more gratifying to be on the inside of shared assumptions. (We like talking to friends, not strangers.)"
"Which means flippancy and snark can be convincing, substantively convincing, without even making an argument. They convince socially, not rhetorically."
a) The site-wide search will ONLY be for public posts. Posts that you have permission to see may be searched using journal search (which is a paid feature)
b) They don't have plans to exempt an individual entry from search.
c) Currently everyone who opts out of being indexable by search engines is automatically opted out of the DW sitewide search. I'm guessing that just as with search engines, in the default setting will be to have site-wide search on.
I wonder what percentage of LJ and DW users have search engine search turned off?
2. Wordpress's P2 theme is interesting. It's sort of like Twitter on 'roids, or like the Facebook stream. It also reminds me of Tumblr, in that there's a "post box" right on the screen. [It does make sense for Tumblr that the default screen is merely the feed of people who you are following, as that is what people are most interested in, with an option to post at the top.]
On the phatic nature of Twitter.
On the Evolution of Blogging. The main point seems to be "There needs to be more real-time collaboration built into these systems. They need to become socially relevant. They need to take into account that today, consumption and creation happen not just on traditional computing systems like a laptop, but also on highly mobile devices."
3. A post soliciting suggestions and comments on the proposed DW image hosting service.(eh... I've never found it a very important feature of LJ, except for the security features, which I wonder won't eventually be implementable in say Flickr or something through OpenAuth or something: in other words people can be preapproved for viewing photos when they log in with their LJ or whatever accounts.)
4. Intriguing article on what snark means for online communities (the stable state?), based off of this post.
"Flippancy works best for people who already agree with you in principle. Jokes and references have to be gotten; irony and sarcasm need to be picked up. They’re fun when they’re for you. The earnest, thorough stuff, on the other hand, has to waste its fun doing the boring work of reaching out to all possible listeners—explaining where it’s coming from, inserting caveats, acknowledging exceptions and counter-arguments, etc. It builds a case; flippancy gets to just dance entertainingly on a case. One is the way you talk to people who get you, the other is the way you explain yourself to people who don’t. Teenagers are really amazing at one and often really poor at the other; they like being gotten, and they haven’t collected much information yet about what other people’s assumptions even are."
"it’s just plain funnier and more exciting and more gratifying to be on the inside of shared assumptions. (We like talking to friends, not strangers.)"
"Which means flippancy and snark can be convincing, substantively convincing, without even making an argument. They convince socially, not rhetorically."
