I’m working on a new feature for TailRank that allows the community to have some editorial control over the site. Essentially I’m wikifying TailRank. If a user is promoted to ‘editor’ then they can edit the title/summary of a story in the system. The theory here is that some story titles and summaries don’t make sense when presented out-of-context.
For example a recent story promoted to the site had a title of:
“The Mystery Blog”
which might be a good title for the author but a much better title for the user might be:
“The Blog Herald is selling for $75k”
Essentially there are two main ways to build a recommendation site like TailRank. You can harness user-contributed metadata manually (Digg, Reddit are examples) or you can use the link structure and the blogosphere as your index (Technorati or Google).
I’d like TailRank to do both. Harness the community but provide the majority of the work by automated systems (our robots).
While I love wiki’s I’m still a little bit nervous about constantly having to fight spammers. Maybe I should just learn to love the bomb but I’m not there yet.
The plan for editors is to promote them manually. This way I won’t (necessarily) have to worry about people spamming this portion of the system. If they behave poorly I can just revoke their editor status.
This new functionality is going to ship in a few days. If you’d like to be one of the first with TailRank editorial control please send me an email and I’ll grant your account editorial control.
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Trackback on Jan 17th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
TailRank and Editorial Control
Kevin is rolling out Editorial Control in the next few days. If you want the ability to edit titles and snippets you can apply here.
The plan for editors is to promote them manually. This way I won’t (necessarily) have to worry about people spamming
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January 18, 2006 at 5:53 am
This sounds like a very cool feature - i’m anxious for reading lists too!
January 18, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Some ideas:
1. For non-editors to be able to help, perhaps they could make changes to be “committed” by the editors. Like posting a patch to an issue tracker, for code.
2. A “Blog this” feature like Flickr. Let people post to their blogs with a linkback to Tailrank. The MetaWebLog API or Atom Publishing Protocol could be used here.