{"id":416,"date":"2005-04-27T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=416"},"modified":"2005-04-27T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T15:27:17","slug":"uncle-mercy-whatever-please-just-kill-the-dupes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2005\/04\/27\/uncle-mercy-whatever-please-just-kill-the-dupes\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle, Mercy, Whatever: Please, Just Kill the Dupes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If I See This One More Time…<\/a>
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As I explained it to one audience yesterday, I consider services like PubSub and Technorati’s Watchlists to be the rough blogging equivalent of Google’s News Alerts. One scans blogs, the other news, but same principle. They watch a channel for mentions of a keyword or link. <\/p>\n

In concept, it’s a terrific idea. In execution, it’s mostly still a terrific idea. But lately, it’s less terrific. Much less. <\/p>\n

PubSub<\/a>, of the available services, has been for me the least prone to duplicate mentions – i.e. false-positive returns that come back again and again. But since the Adobe\/Macromedia news, PubSub has taken to showing me the pictured Industry Standard story featuring a quote from my esteemed colleague several times per day, often with multiple mentions in the same return. Each and every day, I’m treated to that same article somewhere between 5 and 10 times. It’s driving me crazy, to the point that I’m considering dropping that particular watchlist. <\/p>\n

So while I don’t know if Tim is right, and Atom’s the answer<\/a> to this particular problem, I do know that it’s a problem that needs to be solved. Because I’m certainly not the only one with such a problem. Please guys, kill the dupes.
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