DISQUS

Daniel Aleksandersen · 1 year ago

Drop your brand name in the namespace and it will be all fine. Make it a generic ranking operator and define a way to pitch in data from aideRSS.
Ilya Grigorik · 1 year ago

Daniel, could you expand on the "define a way to pitch in data from AideRSS"? Are you thinking an API to retrieve the story PostRank, or do you have something else in mind?
Scott Hanselman · 1 year ago

Plus 1 on the dropping of the brand name. Otherwise, a fine idea.
Jeff · 1 year ago

The motivation behind this extension was to expose PostRank in readers beyond our "My Feeds" reader. Currently we're the only ones who can calculate PostRank so I'm not sure what dropping the brand name accomplishes.

That said, perhaps what people are suggesting, and I'm reading between the lines of Daniel's comment, is to use PostRank as a factor in portable data format like APML -- see http://www.apml.org
Jay Levitt · 1 year ago

Since PostRank isn't (AFAICT) a trademark, isn't it actually *better* to namespace it with aiderss? Conceivably, in the future, I might want to see PostRank data from AideRSS, GoogleKnowsEverythingRSS, FacebookWereWatchingYouRSS, etc., all mashed up into one feed.

I mean, er, not that I'd ever need another service besides AideRSS. Of course not. But, still.