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Re: Contextual Scripture “Link Ads”

uncle_jesse — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:02:02 -0000

@Joey Day, thanks for the offer. I'll take a look at what you've got. It may be a bit before I'm able to put this into practice, but gathering ideas right now won't hurt. I'm thinking several different types of plugins and code to load the links could be in order - a plugin for Wordpress isn't a bad idea. I think the javascript would be an across-the-board solution I could offer as well. Sorry it took so long for me to reply! (see my post for today)

Re: Contextual Scripture “Link Ads”

Joey Day — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:39:12 -0000

Richard Miller from the More Good Foundation mentioned to me (a while agosorry for the delay) that you were looking for some input on this from me. Your idea would be relatively easy to implement as a WordPress plugin running server-side (no JavaScript). It could dynamically pull from a central database using any keywords that were configured to be "linkified". Take a look at the code of my LDS Linker plugin for a start. This project isn't a far cry different from that onejust "linkifying" different stuffand of course my code is open source so feel free to "borrow" whatever you find useful. You can contact Matt Mullenweg and he'll be happy to set you up a space on the wp-plugins.org Subversion repository where any folks who want to participate can check code in and out and collaborate on the project. It's a little out of the realm of my interest, but let me know if you need any help and I'll be glad to donate some of my time. Cheers!

Re: Contextual Scripture “Link Ads”

uncle_jesse — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:09:19 -0000

Usually those link ads are double-underlined, and fairly easy to tell between a normal link and ad link. We deal with other ads - at least these aren't as obtrusive. And what I'm talking about are just scriptural references and quotes - if you could differ between the reference and a normal link I don't see why it would be such a big deal.

Re: Contextual Scripture “Link Ads”

Hans — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:15:59 -0000

Ugh, I *HATE* those stupid contextual link ads. In my opinion it is just noise. Once I realize that a page is using them, the SNR has gone out the window and I can't even be bothered to look at any of the links on the page. All it is to me at that point is annoying differently-colored words.

Hypertext is about the author providing a link to something useful and relevant. Whoring hyperlinks destroys that relationship between author and reader and just becomes line noise.

Re: Contextual Scripture “Link Ads”

uncle_jesse — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:39:05 -0000

Awesome Stewart! I wasn't aware of scriputuretag, but I think that gives me a huge head start. I was aware of Connor's quoty. I'll have to look more at it and see if there can be an application here.

Re: Contextual Scripture “Link Ads”

Stewart Foss — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:36:28 -0000

Very interesting idea. It might also be interesting to see an ad block, similar to Google ads, with relevant scriptures or quotes. I can think of two site that you could probably tie into to get the data.

The first is mine, Scripture Tag (http://www.scripturetag.com). It is built around the concept of keyword tagging of the scriptures. I have not built a full API, but each tag is syndicated via RSS and I am sure I could feed you any pieces that you need.

The Second is Connor Boyacks Quoty (http://quoty.connorboyack.com). I know Connor has an API for pulling out quotes on specific keywords so it you may be able to pull in that very easily.

Great idea, let me know if I can help.