Comments on: blogs and metadata http://www.nextyme.net/blog/2005/03/13/blogs-and-metadata/ The personal blog of Me (and some other random people I've met). Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:50:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Joe Chellman http://www.nextyme.net/blog/2005/03/13/blogs-and-metadata/#comment-22 Joe Chellman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.nextyme.net/blog/?p=70#comment-22 Hm. It does certainly seem like internal blogs would solve a lot of problems. Of course, you'd have to get people using RSS, which might be challenging. As I understand it, many organizations are so tied to email that it can be a hard habit to break. Still, you could try Movable Type's keywords field. Authors could assign keywords to entries (MT does have this capability, as I'm sure you know). Those keywords can be used in search, but you could also whip up a quick script that mines the MT database backend directly, pulling all keywords and hyperlinking them all on one page, so someone could get all articles with that keyword. Instead of making people guess keywords when searching, that could help. Searching by meaning is a little more than I think any mere weblog software is going to get you. At this point, you need to get some Google PhDs working on the problem. Hm. It does certainly seem like internal blogs would solve a lot of problems. Of course, you’d have to get people using RSS, which might be challenging. As I understand it, many organizations are so tied to email that it can be a hard habit to break.

Still, you could try Movable Type’s keywords field. Authors could assign keywords to entries (MT does have this capability, as I’m sure you know). Those keywords can be used in search, but you could also whip up a quick script that mines the MT database backend directly, pulling all keywords and hyperlinking them all on one page, so someone could get all articles with that keyword. Instead of making people guess keywords when searching, that could help.

Searching by meaning is a little more than I think any mere weblog software is going to get you. At this point, you need to get some Google PhDs working on the problem.

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