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The Bloggingportal (dot eu) | 8 comments (8 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: The Bloggingportal (dot eu) (4.00 / 6)
I think that aggregation can work as narrative, but it needs to be curated. A team editing and highlighting parts of the flow - that knew their way around that amount of european blogs  - could really tell a story - especially with linguistic support.

The feeds could be there and available - but with a heavily curated front end -  and the possibility offered to others to create customised front ends for it.

I always think 'engine' when I see routine formatting errors - because of automation - in search results. This feels like an engine.

by irishhead on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 07:24:51 PM EST
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Re: The Bloggingportal (dot eu) (4.00 / 5)
Aggregation can probably only ever work for a small audience. Or you have to keep hitting narrative points so hard over and over that it becomes very selective aggregation, which means that narrative engineering and aggregation become obviously incompatible.

I agree about the engine feel though, and - unfortunately - that feel creates a narrative of its own, by implication.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 07:53:40 PM EST
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Re: The Bloggingportal (dot eu) (4.00 / 2)
Very useful feedback. The editorial input could indeed be improved beyond content selection to make sure that the content looks good. Aside of that, curation could come into the process by writing a newsletter.

Anyone here got an idea for a good newsletter title?

The issue is that we're all doing this in our free time, also the guys working on the technical side. So we're going to have to wait a while to get out of beta.

Customisation is already possible in terms of language; you can select which languages you want to see displayed. Right now this is only useful for German and French.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 at 06:00:13 AM EST
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