BigBlogs and Dates

: There is now a bigblog filtering option on bsrch
There is now the ability to limit results to a specific date range on bsrch

Update

: Done:
- Junk filter done (someblogs.ning.com), anonymous pings online
- Auto-refresh bot done

Coming next:

- bigblog filter option on bsearch and blocks on anonym pings (bigblog filter using OPML from technorati and share.opml)
- cached splog filter
- date range limit on bsrch

Coming after:

- link to classify.php
- Meme
- single-blog view page

Junk Filter

: The beginnings of an auto-classifying junk filter are in place. There is now a 'filter junk' option over at littluns.ning.com/bsrch . This option uses the auto-classifyer and anything that matches is placed for consideration of being comitted to the permanent list of junk at someblogs.ning.com . I ran a query designed to bring up junk with this checkbox checked and got many entries comitted to the permanent junkblog list. I may eventually add a filter to make sure not splogs end up listed on junkblogs, but realistically since both are exclude lists, I'm not sure it matters. Anonymous blog adding / pinging has been enabled here on littluns, but if you are not logged in it runs your URL against the autoclassifyer first before allowing the ping to go through. Suggestions for stopwords / short phrases to use in identifying junk would be welcome :) While the system works if left alone, it works better if users frequently go over to someblogs.ning.com and verify/unlist/suggest blogs to go on the permanent junk list :)

Junk Filter

: In the spirit of the SplogSpot (http://splogspot.com/) project, I have started http://someblogs.ning.com/, a search engine for so-called 'junk' blogs. This app is prone to moving at any time, but the basic framework is there. Next on the list is an auto-junk classifier. When untrusted pings are run through Littl'uns, they will be matched against a soon-here API from Some Blogs. If they are on the someblogs list, they will not be added to / shown on littluns. If they match the autoclassifier they will not be added to / shown on littluns and will be added to the someblogs 'suggest' list. This will help prevent content from personal blogs, sexblogs, etc from showing up on littluns. I suppose these blogs are not always 'junk' (I run a personal blog myself), but they certainly do not appeal to a wide audience and should not show up in our listings (my personal blog is read by my friends only, because they're the only ones who care what goes on in my life).

Update

: Update / Discuss tab has been added to ningbar. URLs have been cleaned up so that they no longer contain /index.php/ (although if you use the old-style it'll still work).

Coming next:

- junk filter + bigblog filter options on bsearch and blocks on anonym pings (allow anonym pings)
(bigblog filter using OPML from technorati and share.opml, junk filter using 'stop phrases' to catch sexblogs/personal blogs)
- cached splog filter
- date range limit on bsrch

Coming after:

- auto-refresh bot for content
- link to classify.php
- Meme
- single-blog view page

Please note that as of right now I am only monitoring this discussion/updates thread and none of the individual-page ones. The 'report this app' feature seems to be gone, so I'll have to work up a way around that for messaging me, or maybe just post to this thread...