[mlent]

thanks for your feedback (OP here). yeah it's tough, i try to give anyone a chance to rank who has more than just a few posts.

what I didn't expect about that site is that it gets shared A LOT on twitter. still trying to refine the algorithm :)

thanks a ton for checking it out and sharing your feedback!

[ad404b8a372f2b9]

It occurs to me you could switch the curation and trend gathering steps to minimize the amount of work on your end. Instead of going "twitter trend -> filter out the bad ones with in-house experts" you could go "follow experts -> find out what trends among them". That's my usual workflow when using twitter.

[mlent]

that is already what i'm doing pretty much. i accept blog submissions and try to look for signs of quality, and then monitor for mentions of their sites.

as you suggested though, i didn't know the ML space enough to know that Machine Learning Mastery publishes daily and has an army of people who like and retweet ANYTHING they publish.

so it makes me wonder if i need to have some kind of dampening effect or how i can adapt the algorithm to handle that.

[mumblemumble]

Perhaps there could be a ranking that takes posting frequency into account, and lets people decide whether they want to see higher- or lower-volume blogs.

Perhaps not a straight ascending or descending by frequency. For me, the sweet spot seems to be no more than once a month. More if it's one that does something like a weekly post aggregating interesting articles from other blogs.

[mlent]

That's a cool idea! Adding an "advanced search" is something I've been thinking about.

Gives people more control over their personal "algorithm" and what they value most when reading personal blogs.

Hadn't thought about frequency but that could definitely be something you could automate based on RSS. Thanks for the idea!

[pc86]

Why would you penalize a blog with 3 authors who publish 3x the articles of a personal blog? Why would you penalize higher volume at all? Trying to ascribe anything close to quality based on volume is like trying to grade developer productivity and/or skill by LOC.

[mycall]

Is there plans for I18N for the content buckets?