Comments on: Google Evilness scale curious but flawed http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:49:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-50361 TDavid Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:03:40 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-50361 James - that seems to be taking what evilornot is doing and dynamically classifying the stories as positive or negative? I see the same problem with this tool really with an admittedly very quick look. This piece is listed as negative toward Google when in fact it isn't negative toward Google. If anything I'm commenting negatively on a tool that is <i>about</i> Google. James - that seems to be taking what evilornot is doing and dynamically classifying the stories as positive or negative? I see the same problem with this tool really with an admittedly very quick look. This piece is listed as negative toward Google when in fact it isn’t negative toward Google. If anything I’m commenting negatively on a tool that is about Google.

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]]> By: Ugo Cei http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49901 Ugo Cei Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:15:42 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49901 By the way, this is just something that I hacked together in a couple of boring evenings while vacationing and to learn Ruby on Rails. It's meant to be a fun thing and I have no financial plans around it (of course, if Yahoo! wants to buy it, I'm available to listen ;) ). But I agree that if something is worth doing, it must be done well, so I'll try to find some more evenings to fix what's broken. Thank you. By the way, this is just something that I hacked together in a couple of boring evenings while vacationing and to learn Ruby on Rails. It’s meant to be a fun thing and I have no financial plans around it (of course, if Yahoo! wants to buy it, I’m available to listen ;) ). But I agree that if something is worth doing, it must be done well, so I’ll try to find some more evenings to fix what’s broken.

Thank you.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49898 TDavid Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:03:07 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49898 Oh, and BTW, please call me TD or TDavid ... you are missing a letter there in my name, lol Oh, and BTW, please call me TD or TDavid … you are missing a letter there in my name, lol

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49897 TDavid Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:02:30 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49897 Hi Ugo - thanks for stopping by. A slider can be clickable as well as radio buttons ;) I think something colorful and visual cold (white/blue) to hot (dark red) is easiest and quickest to understand that I can think of. After all, there's all those hot or not type sites out there which is essentially what you doing a spinoff on here. Check into Mechanical Turk, really, maybe that would be a way to free up your time, although you are going to need some revenue to pay for that service and I'm not sure if what you are doing is financially viable. Being a programmer myself I understand and appreciate what you are trying to accomplish here (and I was glad to see that you took my critique constructively, because some folks don't), but as a reader it's not really helping with the breakdown of information if there is too much redundancy. Readers want less of their time consumed, not more. So your job, should you continue to choose to accept it, is to save readers time and not confuse them with too many choices. It's hard enough getting them to rate something, much less rate information which conflicts itself. Keep at it and let me know if/when you work out something more intelligent. Happy coding to you :) Hi Ugo - thanks for stopping by. A slider can be clickable as well as radio buttons ;) I think something colorful and visual cold (white/blue) to hot (dark red) is easiest and quickest to understand that I can think of. After all, there’s all those hot or not type sites out there which is essentially what you doing a spinoff on here.

Check into Mechanical Turk, really, maybe that would be a way to free up your time, although you are going to need some revenue to pay for that service and I’m not sure if what you are doing is financially viable. Being a programmer myself I understand and appreciate what you are trying to accomplish here (and I was glad to see that you took my critique constructively, because some folks don’t), but as a reader it’s not really helping with the breakdown of information if there is too much redundancy. Readers want less of their time consumed, not more. So your job, should you continue to choose to accept it, is to save readers time and not confuse them with too many choices. It’s hard enough getting them to rate something, much less rate information which conflicts itself.

Keep at it and let me know if/when you work out something more intelligent. Happy coding to you :)

]]> By: Ugo Cei http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49896 Ugo Cei Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:50:57 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060114/2850/#comment-49896 Thanks for yor critique, David. I assure you that it is appreciated. I agree that a slider would be cool, even though radio buttons require just one click to select, so it's quicker for users. I am considering changing the labels to something less confusing like "Totally good", "Almost goood", "Don't care", "Almost evil", "Totally evil". What do you think? As for the Google logo, I read the terms of use and I think I am complying to them, but I'm no lawyer, so I might as well be wrong. But I think the meat of your objections has to do with editorial overview. That's indeed a serious problem, but I have no other resources apart from my limited time. As long as I am online I can manually delete irrelevant content and this will probably be enough for now. Thanks for yor critique, David. I assure you that it is appreciated.

I agree that a slider would be cool, even though radio buttons require just one click to select, so it’s quicker for users. I am considering changing the labels to something less confusing like “Totally good”, “Almost goood”, “Don’t care”, “Almost evil”, “Totally evil”. What do you think?

As for the Google logo, I read the terms of use and I think I am complying to them, but I’m no lawyer, so I might as well be wrong.

But I think the meat of your objections has to do with editorial overview. That’s indeed a serious problem, but I have no other resources apart from my limited time. As long as I am online I can manually delete irrelevant content and this will probably be enough for now.

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