[Developers] Blog properties and ping idea

[Alec Flett]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:19:57 -0700, Jason Douglas <jason at metaweb.com>  
wrote:

> If this is the goal, how about adding categories and/or tags that
> could be mapped to Freebase topics?  Think of the interesting
> queries!  :-)
>

One idea is that there are already "tags" in freebase - 2.6 million of  
them in fact

we just need a "related topics" property on the blog, and it can point to  
existing topics..i.e. if you have a blog about movies, the "tag" is  
/topic/en/film, a.k.a. the "Film" topic.

  if we want to get really fancy we can come up with a "blog topic" type  
that has a reverse link, so that when you are looking at a topic and there  
are blogs about it, then it shows up automatically.

This is how "Film Subject" works right now:  
http://www.freebase.com/view/filter/film/film_subject. See  
http://www.freebase.com/view/topic/en/mafia for an example of it in action.

Alec

> -jason
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Liz Henry wrote:
>
>> Kirrily and I are talking about a project to add blogs and bloggers to
>> Freebase.  This could be approached many different ways, but here's
>> one
>> way to start.
>>
>> Basically it's a nuisance to try and find out about existing blogs.
>> There are just too many.
>



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