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Wading Through Weblogs, One Idea at a Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the navel-engagement dept.

candot writes "Remember the recent slashdot story on NASA cancelling the moon hoax book? Wonder what other weblogs are saying about the subject? Launched today (in beta), the Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics. The Waypath Project's Related Weblog Navigation engine analyzes weblog entries to determine their core conceptual makeups, compares them with one another to find out how related they are, and presents you with its best guess as to what's related to your original input. This is done all automatically. Look for the disclaimers about varying quality you'd expect from an automated classification system, such as at Google News. You're encouraged to embed WP results in your weblog pages. Be the first on your block to try it out, today -- unless it gets slashdotted, then tomorrow. Resources are limited, so pace yourselves."

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  1. 'blogs' by EggplantMan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems to me that blogs are a haven for angsty, mal-adjusted, teenage primadonnas. Is this an article directed at the ever growing teenage portion of the Slashdot audience? Really, who reads these things, they're a waste of time.

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    1. Re:'blogs' by nomadic · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not at all. There are plenty of weblogs run by non-teenage angsty, maladjusted primadonnas.

      And does the name "blog" annoy the hell out of anyone else either? The only people I can picture using the term are annoying hipsters down at Starbucks trying to impress each other as they slam back frappucinos.

  2. It's written in Java? by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's proprietary, closed-source, dirt slow, written in Java, inaccurate, and prone to nasty debug screens.

    Take a look at slashdot, livejournal, and everything2 -- everything works like clockwork. I think the open source community could, and should, write better code for this.

  3. Why can't Slashdot cache subject sites pages? by frank249 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Be the first on your block to try it out, today -- unless it gets slashdotted, then tomorrow. Resources are limited, so pace yourselves.

    Others have said it but here it is again. Slashdot is a great resource but many interesting sites become inaccessable due to their servers not being able to handle the load. Why can't Slashdot set up a cache of the interesting pages like google does?

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  4. Just stop now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics.

    They're called "Web rings". You might remember them.

    Asides from that, who the hell cares what some kid in Tacoma thinks about the NASA book? Or, for that matter, who the hell cares what a kid in Tacoma thinks about anything? No one.

    WBELOGS == TEH GEYEST! Just stop.