Archive for January 2007
On this blog’s LDS Blog aggregator, I’ve added a second category of blog comment feeds. If you scroll down far enough (the post feed currently lists the 200 most recent Bloggernacle posts) you’ll find them. They are merely titled by the comment poster’s name but they do contain a good deal of each comment’s content. I am gradually adding these feeds to the aggregator. If you don’t see your blog’s comments feeding into it and you would like me to add the comment feed, you can list it in the comments of this post or email it to me.
It’s occurred to me that many comments may be as good or better than some posts. Or at least as interesting. So I see no reason not to offer this category of feeds as well. Over time I may or may not tinker with the formatting of these comment feeds.
I have heard somewhere that Blogger does not offer comment feeds, but that may be outdated information. Can anyone tell me if this has changed? Any tips on locating comment feeds are appreciated. WordPress seems to make it easy - but I’m less sure how to find comment feeds for Typepad and other blogwares.
As I understand it, the Google Engine’s search capability is basically dependent on its recognition of typewritten symbols - letters and numbers. This might sometimes lead to certain limitations. For example, if Google searches a site that contains untitled abstract artworks, it will recognize (due to image file codes) that images are there. But it is highly unlikely that a random person out there who is surfing the net would be able to use search and thus randomly stumble across the same untitled abstract images.
I wonder then if Google spiders would find it advantageous to start crawling sites not only for letter and number combinations but also for colors. This shouldn’t be too hard, I would think. I can use a free download called colorpic to match any color with a specific code. If the google search spiders ‘read’ sites and images for colors as well and matched those colors with numeric color codes, it could be interesting to do a search for them and see what comes up. If Google and other search engines worked this way, it would be interesting to see what the top site would be for “Red” or “Black” or maybe “Red and black” … that sort of thing.
Perhaps a service could also exist so that a host could analyze his/her site or image for colors and put the color names or numeric codes as tags, making it easier for sites like google and technorati to pick them up for search.
Just some random thoughts.