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Personnellement je trouve l’idée des Photoblog interressante … mais je ne croi pas qu’un ajoue trop grand de catégorie soit agréable. L’idée est de venir sur Yulblog de voir les nouveaux “post” et de choisir ceux qui nous plaises et de repartir… Peut etre plus d’entré sur la page principal !? Ou encore de relier les “post” d’un meme blog dans un group ?

I ping the site automatically only when the primary category of my post is “Montreal” which is very rare. I would very much prefer it if this were the suggested behaviour. As good as everyone’s blogs are, if I want to read them I’ll read THEM - here I want stuff specifically related to the city.

Being that the ping is automatic, I don’t want to go into MT each time it changes - I’d probably forget and then just neglect to fix it at all.

The only other suggestion is that I don’t like the dynamic menus approach to listing the sites. It’s slick and all, and relatively well-implemented, but I don’t know that it’s all that useful. I would challenge anyone to find Boris’ site in under 2 minutes, for instance… Maybe it’s time to develop a real directory.

Sorry if this seems overly critical - I really love what you’ve done with this overall, and would hate for that to get lost among the ideas posted here.

Oh I love the idea of a photoblog kind of thing. You might want to look into Flickr for this, in particular the tagging and RSS feeds you can pull from there.

For example see “http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/montreal/” and its related feed, “http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=montreal&format=rss_200”

Well, let’s back up a second here. For those of us on services like TypePad, there is no way that I know of of setting up an automatic ping to sites other than the preset ones. And pinging YULBlog.org manually every time we post just doesn’t make sense.

Isn’t there perhaps a smarter way of using the various sites’ RSS or Atom feeds, if they have them? That way, YULBlog’s backend is “pulling” the content into the page as it wants, instead of the server being flooded with pings at peak intervals.

People without an RSS feed may still have to manually ping, but they are fewer and fewer these days.

AJ, you can’t set up an auto ping in TypePad? I assumed that you could. In MT it’s in the “category attributes”.

Haha! Some ideas. Good. A few things:

I didn’t mean an actual photo thing, just a seperate page listing photblogs and which they would specifically ping, no image posting or management on this site. Although adding some kind of Flickr feature on top isn’t a bad idea at all.

“I ping the site automatically only when the primary category of my post is “Montreal” which is very rare. I would very much prefer it if this were the suggested behaviour” I tend to agree.

“Peut etre plus d’entré sur la page principal !?” Non. La page est déjà beaucoup trop longue à mon gout. “Ou encore de relier les “post” d’un meme blog dans un group” non plus, MT ne le permet pas je veut rester dans les fonctionalitées MT et/ou plugin.

“Isn’t there perhaps a smarter way of using the various sites’ RSS or Atom feeds” There are, I’m kind of hinting at it when I mention the services I tried to setup but as I said, they don’t work all that well. More importantly, that would be for a “recently updated” list, not to replace the metablog. Wether it’s subject restricted or not I want it at the very least to remain a poster decision, not to have all posts from everyone.

mes deux sous:

“I ping the site automatically only when the primary category of my post is “Montreal” which is very rare. I would very much prefer it if this were the suggested behaviour”

je préfère une approche plus libre. j’aime bien venir ici pour lire des billets de montréalais plutôt que des billets concernant directement montréal.
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une catégorie pour les photoblogs: entièrement d’accord. ou peut-être une page différente à pinger lorsqu’un billet n’est qu’une photo ?
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“Maybe it’s time to develop a real directory.”

c’est une très bonne idée. si quelqu’un trouve le temps de la mettre en action. :>
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à l’instar de Michael, j’apprécie beaucoup le travail que tu fais ici. comme ils disent: “keep up the good work !” :>

Le “spin” initial c’était des entrées à propos de Montréal ou qui intéresserait les gens de Yulblog. Évidemment le second item est très sujet à interprétation mais je crois que présentement ca s’étend à “complètement général” et un peu à de la promotion “here I am”.

Ce n’est pas un problème en soit, à part que ca augmente le voume à trop par jour, selon moi, d’ou les suggestions de catégories ou de focus plus précis.

I tend to agree with the idea of pinging only when it’s Montreal or YULblog (the group, the gatherings) related. Otherwise it’s too long to read, there’s too many posts from the same people and not enough different YULbloggers who ping to the site. It doesn’t have to be so much about the city of Montreal itself (Kate does a good job with that), but it could be about various related subjects such as questions of identity related to Montreal (bilinguisme, for example), disatisfaction with drivers, missing your old neighborhood, a new magazine distributed in town, a weekend at one of the many markets, etc.)

I only ping the site (and I do it manually) when my posts have something to do with Montreal or if I’m trying to reach yulbloggers. I agree with Michael: if I wanted to go read the full content of someone’s blog, I would go there directly or use their RSS feed.

I also like the idea of a listing for photobloggers.

Oops! The link to the First Wednesday meeting doesn’t work on this page…

I like the site mikel.org because my name is Mikel. I think you should have a section dedicated to fellow Mikels out there.

One thing I implemented for île sans fil was a filter to only aggregate posts mentionning a few keywords. That way, it’s transparent to the blogger, and the public (is there any?) gets to read things specific to île sans fil or wifi. I’m not sure how much that would help here.
Another thing: a few blog applications now offer the possibility of sending a trackback only when a post belongs to a certain category. I know wordpress will include that in its next version.
Personnally, I trackback manually right now. Recently, I’ve been doing it for almost every post, but I could make it more focused if those are the guidelines. In fact, the guidelines should be easily found for new recruits.
Finally, the idea of a true blog directory. Who’s up for that?

Robin point 1: Good idea but not possible with trackback “reception” within MT and as I mentioned, I’m sticking with that structure for the monent.

point 2: I think that’s what most MT users are doing and I thought the Typepaders were doing the same.

point 3: What do you all mean by directory? Something like Yahoo? In which case I have two questions:

1. Do we have enough “members” to make it worth splitting in enough categories for it to look like a directory and be useful?

2. Some were saying that the current opening and closing of “drawers” wasn’t quick enough to find a site, wouldn’t a multipage directory be even worse?

3.1: I count 169 yulbloggers, including closed ones. I’m not a big fan of categories, I prefer keywords and a “spatial” interface, like the gnome people call it now. A true directory would enable us to find information about the blogger, the blog, etc. I’d also like to be able to separate posts and blogs by language, and implement some features like proxyblog…
I’m not putting these suggestions on Patrick’s shoulder, I’m more interested in getting your impressions right now :)

And what, pray tell, is a “spacial” interface? Proxyblog?

1. spatial interface: I got that one wrong, let me remove my foot from my mouth. For some reason, I though that was the name of the method where, instead of laying out information in a tree, you tag the information with keywords. So, giving one or two keywords or more, you can quickly find specific information. It’s much easier to classify stuff when there’s no clear hierarchy to follow.
2. proxyblog, like geourl: http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/index.php?p=184

Moi je pensait que le but de Yulblog était de réunir les blogger de Mtl et puis apres de nous tenir au courant des nouveaux post des blogger de Mtl peut importe le sujet ?

Et un menu extensible ? Du genre que l’on ne verrai que le titre et le blog de provenance … et qu’il y aurrait un truc pour étendre le contenue du message …. ? Il y aurait comme ca de la place pour un plus grand nombre d’entrées !?