Comments on: Effort in the Season Preview

By: How soon is Fall? - aloe, dream

How soon is Fall? - aloe, dream — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:20:07 +0000

[...] once wrote an article on the essence of a Season Preview, with some focus on melative. Today I took a few hours and javascripted a dynamic info-fetcher [...]

By: aloe, dream » Blog Archive » Seasoned With melative and Rant

aloe, dream » Blog Archive » Seasoned With melative and Rant — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:21:05 +0000

[...] this year I wrote about using melative to leech data for season previews, but the ultimate issue has been whether the [...]

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:42:28 +0000

@ETERNAL ^^ dozo. Even as the sole developer, I’m still half-half about melative, since I don’t know the true direction, and the web interface is a damn mess. I guess the drawback is that I don’t have much time to progress and it’s not like anyone is putting issues in front of me to fix (though Caitlin’s brief interaction seemed to push me in better momentary directions)….

it’s a big to-do list, but if it ever attracted a small, understanding user-base wanting to make it something, I’m sure it would have better meaning other than me just using it for cool tools and ways about media.

Thanks for the interest, feel free to play with it and figure it out!

By: ETERNAL

ETERNAL — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:59:20 +0000

Wow, that’s certainly helpful. The funny thing is, I’m sure I’ve heard of melative before, but I never actually thought to check into it. This one’s getting bookmarked

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:33:20 +0000

Actually, Excel is a nice way to do things. Good that macros are being put to use, makes the job a bit easier in formating. You could actually use a simple php script to make comma-separated output of the desired fields from melative… the only real thing melative needs is a media-type and title. So basically if you had a list of titles a script could easily pull that info from melative… so long as it is in the database (getting someone to put that info in may be an issue, but it’s not difficult).

hehe, melative is not a well-refined “product” since I’m stuck in school or working various non-computer jobs 80% of the time… it doesn’t have a proper development team, and for the scale it really needs 5 or more people. I expect ppl to be skeptical about it, but from the geek-view, it has advantages in modular, automated data.

About the closest thing is for anime is the combination of Anidb/MAL + ANN + google… way too much if you ask me. melative is built around certain ideas that allow these sort of infos to coincide in one place, much like wikipedia.

I never understood why AniDB and MAL don’t maximize “standard resources” … neither of them include a wikipedia link, or cross-link

By: usagijen

usagijen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:29:24 +0000

Sorry for not taking advantage of Melative enough D:

Making the season previews made me wish there was some centralized database available for people to look up the necessary info, and it was right under my nose!

At the moment, my co-bloggers and I still do the manual task of researching, and let the power of Excel macros generate the html lol. I wonder if I’m the only blogger who does that. Laziness + geekiness FTW!