February 06, 2005

Wikipedia URLs as blog subject codes

Dave Megginson (yes, the SAX Dave Megginson) has arrived on the personal blog scene, and he's got an interesting suggestion: that Wikipedia URLs could be used as blog subject codes. Wikipedia is, as the name implies, an encyclopedia in the form of a Wiki (like the Programmer How-To). Anyone can come in and provide an entry about canoes or XML or Star Wars and it'll be there for reference. (I just linked to it to find out what the heck the Long Tail was a post or so ago.)

I like the idea. Wikipedia URLs are easy and intuitive and if everyone would use them, well, it would certainly make my ChoasCrusher job a little eaiser...

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Posted by roadnick at February 6, 2005 04:47 PM | TrackBack

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I like it... we've put together a RSS Feed for every Wikipedia topic under the GNU so this means we have more than 730,000 high quality RSS feeds available. We found the topic titles to be so intutive that the best and most relevant search results where to simply filter the topic titles plus each preview and feed uses the same syntex. For example:

http://www.blinkbits.com/wikifeeds/Derek_Jeter
http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wikipedia.php?w=Derek_Jeter

Posted by: Crash at October 5, 2005 05:19 PM
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