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Show HN: Blogosphere - Discover independent technical blogs
Author : BillFranklin
Score : 42 points
Date : 2021-04-03 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| lastlegion wrote:
| How do you add a blog?
| BillFranklin wrote:
| Sorry, I haven't added a way for users to add blogs yet. If you
| could send me a link to an RSS/Atom feed I'd be happy to add
| more blogs. Auditing blogs for quality is quite time consuming
| so it'd be a good feature to add. Feel free to DM me (link in
| bio) if you'd prefer to send me a link privately.
| BillFranklin wrote:
| Hi, I think discovering blogs and articles by other engineers is
| quite hard. Particularly non-commercial content.
|
| I made blogosphere last Summer in order to improve discovery.
| It's seeded with personal blogs that have at some point appeared
| on the HN front-page.
|
| The intent of the site is to recommend blogs and articles to you,
| with the objective that it'll get better the more you use it.
|
| The site uses a co-occurrence matrix to recommend articles and
| bloggers to you based on the articles you 'star' and topics you
| follow. If you're not logged in, the site will show you popular
| articles. It doesn't track what you read, and doesn't have google
| analytics. I have some ideas for improving recommendations (i.e.
| people like you also like.., and improving the auto tagging of
| articles), but I thought I'd get feedback on whether people want
| this first.
|
| The site is at an MVP stage, there will be bugs and missing
| features, but feedback on whether this is interesting to you
| would be useful.
| m_a_g wrote:
| I wonder, do you handpick every blog post or did you write some
| sort of a crawler?
| BillFranklin wrote:
| I started with the contents of my own RSS feed, and then
| crawled Hacker News for popular blogs, and then crawled the
| feeds of those blogs (in order to get posts that didn't get
| upvoted on HN).
|
| The time consuming part was manually auditing blogs for
| quality (and to ensure it's a personal blog, not e.g. a BBC
| feed). I came up with some heuristics (i.e. blogs with
| github.io subdomains that got upvoted were often good so I
| blanket approved those) to speed things along, but it did
| take a while.
| taoothereporter wrote:
| Have you tried to apply some ML stuff?
| BillFranklin wrote:
| Back in August I had a look at using Latent Dirichlet
| Allocation (http://blog.echen.me/2011/08/22/introduction-
| to-latent-diric...) for improving how I auto-tag
| articles. It looked promising but I haven't deployed it
| yet.
|
| There are various recommendation approaches I'd like to
| try. If the site had more users (beyond the ~4 friends I
| showed it to) I'd like to try out a collaborative
| filtering approach
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering).
| djhn wrote:
| This would make for an interesting... technical blog post.
| jarbus wrote:
| Nice work, I really like this idea!
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