Take a look at this page at wordpress-powered ETS website. See the related resources links at the bottom of the page? They are automatically generated based on tags.
Now, take a look at the animation on the blogrovr site (found via Jeff Swain's twitter stream).
Imagine if you could choose to get an overlay like that when looking at a PSU blog, to find related posts from across blogs at psu. So when looking at my post about the 2008 TLT symposium, you could also see a little sidebar pointing out other posts about the tlt symposium?
Does this make any sense to do this for blogs@psu? Why not use tools out there, like technorati, that search the entire internet? Why make users have to use the PSU service to play? Why limit related content to just what is at PSU? Perhaps there is an interest in focusing on what is happening at PSU. Perhaps this could be a tool to foster communities at the University. Functionality like this would interact with any other kind of aggregation, social rating, cross-blog community functionality that gets developed.
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