Comments on: Topic Pages – Content re-use and news site usability (part 1) http://www.thingsontop.com/topic-pages-leveraging-content-reuse-news-site-usability-part-1-582.html Search User Experience Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:22:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thomas Kjelsrud http://www.thingsontop.com/topic-pages-leveraging-content-reuse-news-site-usability-part-1-582.html/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Thomas Kjelsrud Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:52:28 +0000 http://www.thingsontop.com/?p=582#comment-134 Thank you for your response Guy - I hope to continue on the stories this week. Text mining versus manual effort is an important issue. In my experience text mining would require a lot of tuning and news articles often have "data disadvantages" (e.g headlines that go for attention rather than description). Managing topics is also important and both authors and readers will have different opinions on how the topics should be arranged. I'll touch on usability and design as well. There is indeed different requirements for frequently updated topic pages as opposed to more static (historical) pages. Thank you for your response Guy – I hope to continue on the stories this week. Text mining versus manual effort is an important issue. In my experience text mining would require a lot of tuning and news articles often have “data disadvantages” (e.g headlines that go for attention rather than description).

Managing topics is also important and both authors and readers will have different opinions on how the topics should be arranged.

I’ll touch on usability and design as well. There is indeed different requirements for frequently updated topic pages as opposed to more static (historical) pages.

]]> By: Guy Valerio http://www.thingsontop.com/topic-pages-leveraging-content-reuse-news-site-usability-part-1-582.html/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Guy Valerio Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:15:47 +0000 http://www.thingsontop.com/?p=582#comment-120 Hi Thomas, Great intro to topic pages - look forward to your thoughts on buiilding communities and traffic around these pages. I think further interesting posts could include the challenges we face building the pages: - the effort taken to create them: text mining techniques and / or manual effort - managing the list of topics as topics merge or change - the design / IA of the pages in order to match the pace of the topic cheers, Guy Hi Thomas,

Great intro to topic pages – look forward to your thoughts on buiilding communities and traffic around these pages.

I think further interesting posts could include the challenges we face building the pages:
- the effort taken to create them: text mining techniques and / or manual effort
- managing the list of topics as topics merge or change
- the design / IA of the pages in order to match the pace of the topic

cheers,
Guy

]]> By: Thomas Kjelsrud http://www.thingsontop.com/topic-pages-leveraging-content-reuse-news-site-usability-part-1-582.html/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Thomas Kjelsrud Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:18:29 +0000 http://www.thingsontop.com/?p=582#comment-116 Please provide the website address - Cheers Please provide the website address – Cheers

]]> By: TonyB http://www.thingsontop.com/topic-pages-leveraging-content-reuse-news-site-usability-part-1-582.html/comment-page-1/#comment-114 TonyB Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:54:01 +0000 http://www.thingsontop.com/?p=582#comment-114 Hi Everyone, I have a carpet cleaning business in Houston,TX that was doing pretty good until the economy went bad, and with it my clientele. I have a website for the business but I dont know what I have to do the get it to show up in a search. Right now it's somewhere in the yahoo/google netherworld (LOL). Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me. I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you. thanks, Hi Everyone,
I have a carpet cleaning business in Houston,TX that was doing pretty good until the economy went bad, and with it my clientele. I have a website for the business but I dont
know what I have to do the get it to show up in a search. Right now it’s somewhere in the yahoo/google netherworld (LOL).

Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front
page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me.

I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you.

thanks,

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