{"id":899,"date":"2005-08-16T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/08\/16\/aggregators-are-splogs\/"},"modified":"2005-08-16T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T17:26:00","slug":"aggregators-are-splogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/08\/aggregators-are-splogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggregators are splogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/entry\/1234000870054492\/\">Mark Cuban writes<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/entry\/1234000870054492\/\">\nWhats a splog ? A splog is any blog whose creator doesnt add any written value. Im sure some might argue that packaging data , such as news feeds or the blog posts of others is added value. I dont think it is. After all, thats why there are topics and  indexes. If I want information about the Dallas Mavericks, I can search for it, optimize it, and save it.  Because indexes are based on freshness, my searches are  automatically updated, freshest data first, as new posts are introduced.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Gotta disagree with him there, in particular where he says &#8220;A splog is any blog whose\ncreator doesnt add any written value&#8221;, as that would include useful aggregators such as\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetweb20\">Planet Web 2.0<\/a>.  With these aggregators, value is\nadded not just by content, but also by the aggregation itself.  For example, while it&#8217;s true\nthat, today, a subscription to Planet Web 2.0 will provide me the same content as if I&#8217;d just\nsubscribed to the individual feeds it&#8217;s subscribed too, I get something else by subscribing\nto the aggregate; I&#8217;m buying into\n<a href=\"http:\/\/internetalchemy.org\/\">Ian<\/a>&#8216;s\nview of the Web 2.0 world for perpetuity, including the removal of feeds he feels are no\nlonger relevant, as well as new ones he finds that he feels are relevant\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_2_1_1\">temporally varying membership function<\/a> anyone? 8-).<\/p>\n\n<p>Search helps too, as Mark correctly points out.  I&#8217;m subscribed to a number of\nTechnorati\/Bloglines searches.  But there&#8217;s a lot of noise there which doesn&#8217;t\nmake them a viable solution in the general case, IMO.<\/p>\n\n<p>My time is valuable.  If I can use the trust I have for Ian&#8217;s opinions to turn an\nO(N) integration complexity problem into an O(1) one, I&#8217;m so there.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban writes; Whats a splog ? A splog is any blog whose creator doesnt add any written value. Im sure some might argue that packaging data , such as news feeds or the blog posts of others is added value. I dont think it is. After all, thats why there are topics and indexes. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}