List of MeFite blogs

February 26, 2003 3:49 PM

I've looked in the FAQ, the Wiki, riffola's user page, and nowhere can I find a comprehensive list of MeFiers' blogs. Does such a thing exist? If not, should such a thing exist? I think a portal showing recent entries from MeFiers' blogs could be nearly as entertaining as MeFi itself.
posted by vraxoin to MetaFilter-Related at 3:49 PM (23 comments total)

Linked from my profile as "links", but it no longer works. It used to be a list of all the urls entered in the url field by the members in their profiles.
posted by riffola at 3:57 PM on February 26, 2003

Actually, riffola does have a link to the links page which is supposed to be a random list of the web sites that users have put in their user profiles. That page is currently reporting a connection failure though.
posted by willnot at 3:57 PM on February 26, 2003

Ok that was freaky, but nice :)
posted by riffola at 3:59 PM on February 26, 2003

Nope, no-one's made anything on the wiki about it. It would be quite a large job to do, even with the apparently dead links page. As for a MefiBlog portal, I hesitate to think of how busy it might get, considering that there are 17,000+ Mefi members. If only 500 had blogs that updated daily, and I suspect it's much more, then you're talking about a lot of entries.
posted by adrianhon at 4:08 PM on February 26, 2003

The following are URLs for the userbase here at MetaFilter, sorted randomly

Connection Failure
posted by crunchland at 4:32 PM on February 26, 2003

doh
posted by crunchland at 4:35 PM on February 26, 2003

i LOVE Connection Failure. that guy is fuckin' funny!
posted by quonsar at 4:48 PM on February 26, 2003

yeah, I should really fix that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:10 PM on February 26, 2003

Matt a bunch of other old links are broken too. 3rd birthday, 2nd birthday, m4, sorry.mefi.com, etc
posted by riffola at 5:14 PM on February 26, 2003

ok, the link list is fixed. It's now sorted by newest members first, older after that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:18 PM on February 26, 2003

...and it seems to crash mozilla 1.3b consistently. It's a big page. Load kindly!
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:26 PM on February 26, 2003

I think a portal showing recent entries from MeFiers' blogs could be nearly as entertaining as MeFi itself.

Why, so you can read things like ME BITCHING ABOUT ALL THE RUDE PICKY-ASS PEOPLE WHO DERAILED MY GODDAMNED THREAD TODAY!!

Just kidding. That does not rate an entry. But I know there is plenty of "personal feedback" on members' blogs about the little sociology experiment that is Mefi. Interesting indeed.
posted by Shane at 5:33 PM on February 26, 2003

Trackback pings to Metatalk categories, anyone?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:38 PM on February 26, 2003

ok, the link list is fixed. It's now sorted by newest members first, older after that.

Then you may want to consider changing the text above the links, which says it is "sorted randomly".
posted by sillygwailo at 9:58 PM on February 26, 2003

I liked it better when it was sorted randomly...
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:33 PM on February 26, 2003

The random sort was what killed it. It was just too many links to random sort.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:15 AM on February 27, 2003

Matt, could you make it a static file updated say once a week? That should speed it up.
posted by riffola at 12:23 AM on February 27, 2003

The newest-to-oldest sort is fun. Makes it really easy to see who among your nearest user-ID neighbours is still around. Hi quonsar, hi aaron!
posted by rory at 4:46 AM on February 27, 2003

OK - now somebody who's good with web services figure out a way scrape this list of URLs and integrate the weblogs.com recently changed data so that we can get a list of just the last 100 or so most recently updated blogs (that ping weblogs.com) blogrolling.com style.
posted by willnot at 6:21 AM on February 27, 2003

What about scaping the RSS from the sites that have it, and using that for a portal list of some type.
posted by Blake at 6:24 AM on February 27, 2003

so that we can get a list of just the last 100 or so most recently updated blogs (that ping weblogs.com)

So are we only interested in blogs that ping weblogs.com (whatever that means)?
posted by languagehat at 9:43 AM on February 27, 2003

It's only the ones that ping weblogs.com that are sending out a "hey world I just updated with new content" announcement that can be collected from a centralized source. So, if you want new stuff, then yeah, those are the ones you're going to go grab.

If you just want any old stuff, then hit any of the sites on that links page.
posted by willnot at 9:55 AM on February 27, 2003

It's only the ones that ping weblogs.com

or blo.gs ...
posted by walrus at 11:32 AM on February 27, 2003