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I accidentally sent my reply just to Jonathan, and thus his reply came to me directly. I agree with Johnathan on his things that annoy him. Anyway, I'm inclined to go for some self policing here and say that we should ask everyone that has a blog on Planet Code4lib to evaluate how often their posts are on topic. If it is a majority of the time, then they should do nothing. If it is only occasionally, they should set up a feed based on a tag or category and send the information to Johnathan or Antonio to edit (assuming Antonio is going to be helping out). I also think that if there are some blogs as 1) Identified as being mostly off topic, and 2) by people who are not actively (If at all ) involved in the community, that they should be contacted and ask the if the mind being removed or if they would set up a category feed as described above. Edward - still doesn't like 115 pages of text on his browser -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 00:55:46 -0400 From: Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> This is a good point. I think participation in the community is important in addition to content. I actually DO think that the vast majority of feeds included have more 'on topic' posts than 'off topic' though. And I read the planet regularly myself. For the most part, I am happy with the content. I will admit that the feeds that irrititate me the most are the ones that do ALL (not just one) of: 1) Have very long posts and/or very frequent posts 2) have very very few posts I consider 'on topic', and 3) Are not from people who participate in this community much at all, as far as I know (I could be wrong). I am happy to include sub-feeds from any blog-writer that would like me to include a sub-feed, feel free to let me know. I would not like obligating blog posters who want to be in a feed to use any particular 'tag', or even 'tags' at all on their blog. I am fine with a certain amount of "non topical" content, and agree that a _certain amount_, when from people who participate in one way or another in the community, can even be nice. Within bounds. Jonathan >>> "Edward M. Corrado" <[log in to unmask]> 05/21/08 5:41 PM >>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > No one other than me is managing it at present. Pretty much the only > 'management' I do is adding blogs whenever someone asks me too. (I also > did just a bit of fine-tuning of the CSS for the html version). I think > it may be the planet software that decides what order to display > lastname and firstname, but feel free to email me ones that are > displaying oddly, and I'll see if I can fix them. I'm not going to get > into serious hacking of the planet software though, or replacing it with > other software (I _maybe_ could be convinced to upgrade it if there's an > upgrade available). (if anyone else wants to do any of that stuff, > raise your hand on the list, and we can probably get you access). > > An unanswered question is when or if the community ever expects me to > _remove_ blogs from the planet. It's not clear. I don't want to remove > them if people are going to see it as an abuse of power or something, as > some have indicated they would. (Most could probably care less either way). > > Other blogs people have suggested I remove from the code4lib aggregator, > as consisting of mainly nontopical content for code4lib, are Mark > Lindner and Meredith Farkas. I guess say so if you'd like to LEAVE > those on the aggregator, and if nobody says so, I'll leave them. If > someone does say so... then I have no idea. :) If we were voting, I'd say remove them. While I enjoy Meredith's blog, it is rather off topic. Of course the problem is this is a slippery slope. Probably 90% of the blogs have more off-topic posts then on topic (mine included). However, I also think this comes to community. If Meredith regularly participated in code4lib, I'd say keep her. So, I guess what I'm saying is content is not the only criteria in my mind (although it is an important one). Edward > > Jonathan > > > Jodi Schneider wrote: > >> I'm a big fan of the planet aggregator. Normally I make suggestions on >> #code4lib. However, Jonathan Rochkind asked me to bring them up onlist >> this time. (Who besides Jonathan is managing the planet at present?) >> >> (1) Bjorn Tipling suggested removing him, since he's going to focus on >> politics: >> "Some of the places where my blog is being tracked, such as code4lib and >> netlamers, might want to look at whether or not they want to continue to >> follow me." >> http://bjorn.tipling.com/2008/05/17/blog-pundits/ >> Can we remove his blog please? >> >> (2) I'd really like a changelog--which might further justify >> adding/dropping blogs without discussion. >> >> (3) Could we please label blogs consistently? For individuals, we have >> mostly lastname, firstname with a few firstname lastname. Either way >> works. But the mixture rankles (sad, I know!). >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Jodi >> >> Jodi Schneider >> Science Library Specialist >> Amherst College >> 413-542-2076 >> >> >> > -- > Jonathan Rochkind > Digital Services Software Engineer > The Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > 410.516.8886 > rochkind (at) jhu.edu >