Comments on: Goodbye RSS, Hello Kinja http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/ All Bruner, All the Time* Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:07:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Rick Bruner http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-204 Rick Bruner Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:20:21 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-204 Ha! Joke's on you. I already <a href="http://www.bruner.net/blog/archives/012173.shtml" rel="nofollow">amended the rules</a> that mistakes in comments threads don't count. Ha! Joke’s on you. I already amended the rules that mistakes in comments threads don’t count.

]]> By: Rick Bruner http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-203 Rick Bruner Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:17:36 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-203 You better bring an expensive bottle of wine when you visit in May... You better bring an expensive bottle of wine when you visit in May…

]]> By: Olivier Travers http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-202 Olivier Travers Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:54:21 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-202 Not a point for that, but I'll take one for "abastracts", thanks. And add another for the missing "is." Not a point for that, but I’ll take one for “abastracts”, thanks. And add another for the missing “is.”

]]> By: Rick Bruner http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-201 Rick Bruner Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:44:30 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-201 Fine, Olivier, it abastracts, not summarizes. You want a point for that? Fine, Olivier, it abastracts, not summarizes. You want a point for that?

]]> By: Olivier Travers http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-200 Olivier Travers Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:30:02 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-200 OK, from what I can fathom at a quick glance, Kinja takes either the first sentence or two sentences of a post, presumably based on the length of the first one. Those are abstracts, not summaries. There is software that creates automatic summaries (e.g. http://www.copernic.com/en/products/summarizer/index.html) it's a lot more difficult that looking for a dot at the end of a sentence and counting characters in a string (maybe Kinja does more, such as looking at punctuation, you would have to feed it weird things such as a very long opening sentence or all lower cap text to see what it does with it). Even if your second sentence is the start of a quote, Kinja will take it but not the rest of the quote, which suggests it doesn't handle many exceptions. And all the examples I've seen are taken from the beginning of the post, so there's apparently no attempt at finding the most relevant or significant abstract within the post. OK, from what I can fathom at a quick glance, Kinja takes either the first sentence or two sentences of a post, presumably based on the length of the first one. Those are abstracts, not summaries. There is software that creates automatic summaries (e.g. http://www.copernic.com/en/products/summarizer/index.html) it’s a lot more difficult that looking for a dot at the end of a sentence and counting characters in a string (maybe Kinja does more, such as looking at punctuation, you would have to feed it weird things such as a very long opening sentence or all lower cap text to see what it does with it). Even if your second sentence is the start of a quote, Kinja will take it but not the rest of the quote, which suggests it doesn’t handle many exceptions. And all the examples I’ve seen are taken from the beginning of the post, so there’s apparently no attempt at finding the most relevant or significant abstract within the post.

]]> By: Olivier Travers http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-199 Olivier Travers Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:02:35 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-199 You can configure any web application server to interpret whatever extensions you want, regardless of the underlying technology. Even better is not to use extensions in your canonical URLs. Are you sure it's a summary (in the semantic meaning), or rather just a well-formated abstract? I'll have to compare what comes up on Kinja vs. sources. You can configure any web application server to interpret whatever extensions you want, regardless of the underlying technology. Even better is not to use extensions in your canonical URLs.

Are you sure it’s a summary (in the semantic meaning), or rather just a well-formated abstract? I’ll have to compare what comes up on Kinja vs. sources.

]]> By: Mark http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-198 Mark Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:37:00 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-198 I think you can do the same thing now on My Yahoo. I think you can do the same thing now on My Yahoo.

]]> By: Rick Bruner http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-197 Rick Bruner Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:08:48 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-197 I would call that a "typo" not a "blunder," but fine, you get a point. I would call that a “typo” not a “blunder,” but fine, you get a point.

]]> By: Steve Hall http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-196 Steve Hall Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:01:08 +0000 http://bruner.net/2004/04/01/goodbye-rss-hello-kinja/#comment-196 Spelling blunder: "...I'm writing, tht the objective..." Spelling blunder: “…I’m writing, tht the objective…”

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