Comments on: Improving the list article format (galleries too)

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By: Sophia Lucero

Sophia Lucero — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:52:51 +0000

I mentioned the “CSS gallery” style site as a quick fix, and it could definitely be the next step to aggregate all the lists out there, but I wish people like Dave Winer (one can dream, right) can initiate the discussion on something even more fundamental, and that’s reformatting content types on the Web such as blog posts so that it’s easy to extract, manage, search information from them. We have something like that in RSS, in tweets, etc.

Either way, there has to be a way to handle all the information in them, whether or not people agree that more discussion posts should be written instead of lists.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:21:30 +0000

I think that trying to improve the lists themselves and creating a new more coherent way of classifying the content in lists is a great idea one that I was attempting to brainstorm the other day.

Would creating a “CSS gallery” style site that categorizes and sub-categorizes the content of list posts really help quell the amount of those styles of posts and open the door for more discussion centered posts though? That’s the question I’m struggling with because from what I understand from those who are fed up with lists is that they want discussion over lists. Perhaps, if the gallery style site is heavy on quality it would be able to weed out the copycats and marketers just looking for site traffic and a payout thus upping the quality of the lists and lessening the backlash against them. It’s an interesting idea and one that could possibly take a small team of bloggers and designer to get running really well.