new site - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:17:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 new site - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 The new aggregators https://www.quakerranter.org/the_new_aggregators/ https://www.quakerranter.org/the_new_aggregators/#comments Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:58:30 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/2006/10/the_new_aggregators/ A look at the new class of “Single Page Aggregators.”

Way back in 1997 I was one of dozens of lots of web designers trying
to figure out how to bring an editorial voice to the internet. The web
had taken off and there pages and links everywhere but few places where
they were actually organized in a useful manner. As I’ve written before,
in December of that year I started a weekly updated list of annotated
links to articles on nonviolence, a form we’d now would recognize as a
blog.

About
eighteen months ago I started a “links blog” of interesting Quaker
links, incorporated as a sidebar on my popular “QuakerRanter” personal
blog. I eventually gave the links their own URL (QuakerQuaker.org)
and invited others to join the linking. I always stumble when trying to
tell people what QuakerQuaker is all about. The best definition is that
its a “collaboratively edited blog aggregator” but that’s a horribly
tech description.

The rise of blogs is creating the necessity for these sort of theme-based aggregators. This morning I stumbled on Original Signal, a new site that organzes the best Web 2.0 blogs. A site called PopURLs does the same for “the latest web buzz.” A site called SolutionWatch has written about these in Tracking the web with Single Page Aggregators. We’re all on to something here. I suspect that sometime this fall some clever person will coin a new term for these sites.

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/the_new_aggregators/feed/ 11551 2346 Site redesign https://www.quakerranter.org/site_redesign/ https://www.quakerranter.org/site_redesign/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:34:40 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=229 As will be obvious to anyone seeing this, the QuakerRanter has been seriously redesigned and moved off the Nonviolence.org server. I plan to talk about the technical underpinnings soon on “MartinKelley.com”:martinkelley.com. In the meantime “email me”:mailto:martink@martinkelley.com if there’s any horrifying glitches.
h3. Update, 9/1/06:
My visitor logs picked up a very interesting new Google entry for my site that highlights the power of keywords and tags that are running on this new site. More over on Martinkelley.com in the immodestly titled post “I am the King of Folksonomy”:http://www.martinkelley.com/blog/2006/09/i_am_the_king_of_folksonomy.php.

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