Comments on: Topping Memeorandum – a timeline http://yardley.ca/2005/11/12/topping-memeorandum-a-timeline/ greg yardley on online product management Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex Barnett blog http://yardley.ca/2005/11/12/topping-memeorandum-a-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-346 Alex Barnett blog Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:44:30 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=172#comment-346 <strong>H2.0 and 'the party to end all parties'</strong> It is with dubious pride that I announce that this blog has joined the new Hack 2.0 Workgroup. The... H2.0 and ‘the party to end all parties’

It is with dubious pride that I announce that this blog has joined the new Hack 2.0 Workgroup. The…

]]> By: Gabe http://yardley.ca/2005/11/12/topping-memeorandum-a-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Gabe Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:38:38 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=172#comment-345 Oh, that was a fun read. Parts of your hypothesis are off, but overall a nice effort! Odd, you might have been the first to write about the continuous archiving...it's escaped the attention of most people. Oh, that was a fun read. Parts of your hypothesis are off, but overall a nice effort! Odd, you might have been the first to write about the continuous archiving…it’s escaped the attention of most people.

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://yardley.ca/2005/11/12/topping-memeorandum-a-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Michael Arrington Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:46:48 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=172#comment-344 This is an excellent post. Reads like a sports game play by play. I love memeorandum and the traffic is great when you are a headline (and much of this traffic converts to RSS, unlike digg and slashdot). However, it penalizes short posts (Dave Winer is often not shown because of this) and it penalizes too many links. The second point is more troubling to me personally because I like to link to others that have joined in the discussion, so I tend to have a lot of links in my posts. But there is a way to have both. Memeorandum already has the discussion from many blogs, and a permalink to that discussion. So more and more often I link to the Memeorandum permanent link (telling Memeorandum in the process exactly where my post should be grouped in case there is any doubt). I then link to other posts I've found that aren't in Memeorandum for whatever reason (post too short, too many links, or they just aren't in the Memorandum seed). It seems to work perfectly. This is an excellent post. Reads like a sports game play by play.

I love memeorandum and the traffic is great when you are a headline (and much of this traffic converts to RSS, unlike digg and slashdot). However, it penalizes short posts (Dave Winer is often not shown because of this) and it penalizes too many links.

The second point is more troubling to me personally because I like to link to others that have joined in the discussion, so I tend to have a lot of links in my posts.

But there is a way to have both. Memeorandum already has the discussion from many blogs, and a permalink to that discussion. So more and more often I link to the Memeorandum permanent link (telling Memeorandum in the process exactly where my post should be grouped in case there is any doubt). I then link to other posts I’ve found that aren’t in Memeorandum for whatever reason (post too short, too many links, or they just aren’t in the Memorandum seed). It seems to work perfectly.

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