tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771393570564645054.post2472991559775383624..comments2023-07-25T10:28:16.082-07:00Comments on Welcome to the Typosphere: Global search for the typosphere? Help!mpclemenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807147515549175803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771393570564645054.post-37249040108567567402013-02-09T19:06:03.252-08:002013-02-09T19:06:03.252-08:00Wow.
"Simplicity itself" for someone wh...Wow.<br /><br />"Simplicity itself" for someone who knows what he's doing! Thanks, Ted.Richard Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16232053429935587826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771393570564645054.post-42879761686740710172013-02-09T05:24:58.823-08:002013-02-09T05:24:58.823-08:00Thanks all for working on searching the typosphere...Thanks all for working on searching the typosphere. Part of me likes that my posts aren't as legible by machines, but part of me wants to be found! <br /><br />I've been using the HTML alt tag to add searchable keywords for my scanned images (i.e. "a typewritten page discussing typewriters in Curtis Hanson's film The Wonder Boys"). A quick test of Ted's search gives me about a 75% success rate for topics I know I've written on, but I think I may need to do better tagging.Kevin L. Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04776146593701865996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771393570564645054.post-79882323405546488572013-02-08T20:11:11.867-08:002013-02-08T20:11:11.867-08:00Ted's search is only as good as the blogroll, ...Ted's search is only as good as the blogroll, of course. As you find new blogs, please send them this way! People tend to post <a href="http://typosphere.blogspot.com/2011/03/typosphere-roll-call.html" rel="nofollow">in the "Roll Call" topic</a> which works for me, since I get email for every comment here (even the spammers, *sigh*)<br /><br />Similarly, help me keep <a href="http://typosphere.blogspot.com/p/where-in-world.html" rel="nofollow">the map up to date!</a> I'm always pleasantly surprised to find typists in new places around the world. A comment in the Roll Call (or anywhere, really) can kick me into action into updating that map.mpclemenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12807147515549175803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771393570564645054.post-76549027424378715482013-02-08T19:48:13.253-08:002013-02-08T19:48:13.253-08:00Ted - that just shows that I'm behind the time...Ted - that just shows that I'm behind the times, doesn't it.Jasper Lindellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615796112573422913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771393570564645054.post-85940624414237690532013-02-08T18:26:45.669-08:002013-02-08T18:26:45.669-08:00pshaw. it was simplicity itself.
http://typewriter...pshaw. it was simplicity itself.<br />http://typewriterdatabase.com now has a "Search The Typosphere" searchbox on the front page, below the newest galleries. It searches pretty much all of the Typosphere blogs listed in the blogroll.<br /><br />Enjoy!Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774432656602082311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771393570564645054.post-88485943517445953362013-02-08T16:29:48.930-08:002013-02-08T16:29:48.930-08:00This can be quite a challenge, because, for starte...This can be quite a challenge, because, for starters, I don't think we even know of all the blogs and writers that form the Typosphere, let alone the platforms they all use. And since this movement has never meant to be structured or have a visible leader, per the Typewriter Insurgency Manifesto, it means we can't easily establish standards for titling, labeling, and composing typosphere-related entries that would make them easily indexable by the likes of Google. Why, we don't even have a standard language for the entries, which can appear in English, German, Spanish, and who knows what other languages!<br /><br />There are, however, a couple of things we could do as a group: <br /><br />- Include the label "Typosphere" in all our entries, regardless of subject, and<br /><br />- Use the advanced search feature in Google to find entries with that label. <br /><br />The other possible option is doing the equivalent of a Library of Congress' Indexing Service, having someone index each and all the entries in the (listed) typosphere-related blogs and then make that database available to search engines, complete with links to the proper entries. Think of it as the modern-day version of yesteryear's library catalogues and indexing cards. Needless to say, this will be one heck of a job to do. <br /><br />Maybe the easiest way to locate a specific entry in a blog is to use as complete a search term as possible in Google. For example, if you search for "Olivetti, lexikon site:blogspot.com", chances are you'll find the entries Richard Polt, Ton, and I have posted in our blogs about this typewriter; but if you look exclusively for, say, "remington site:blogspot.com" you'll find not only typewriter-related entries, but also any kind of contents featuring the word "Remington". You can narrow that search adding one or more extra keywords, as in "Remington, noiseless site:blogspot.com"<br /><br />Miguel Chávezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411154570699775904noreply@blogger.com