Netflix Tracker Updates
Submitted by jim on Wed, 10/20/2004 - 12:58
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The Netflix Tracker just got a couple more reports, including one on the known distribution centers, which I'd like help completing, if you have a moment.
Great job so far, Jim! My local distribution center, Tacoma, is TAC.
Thanks! (both for the kudos and the code :-)
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Jim, are you phasing out the music section of this site? As of right now, in "recent updates" there's one list for the music topic, and a full page for movies...just wondering.
Not at all! Sadly, that's the only music list that has been updated in the past 24 hours. Movies have always gotten the lion's share of the attention here (even before I started posting mostly-movie news to the home page), and the situation seems to get more imbalanced as time goes on.
I'd be happy to post more music stuff to the home page, but it's all I can do to keep up with the movie news (my primary area of interest), and I'm not sure if that would balance things out much anyway.
I did up the hours-increment for books, music, and TV, so those pages should show more results.
Really the only solution is to get out there and recruit your music-loving friends to kick in some content!
Jim, it might be interesting if you could indicate what other Listology users have had the same title(s) out from Netflix as me, recently. Or maybe not even the same title but a title I'm interested in. That way I could strike up a conversation with them about the title. Unless of course you have privacy concerns.
Yeah, privacy concerns are an issue. I think with this particular tool folks are signing up to provide data that will be aggregated; I don't know if I can take for granted they want their specific histories shared.
Could you have a "share rental history" option which be turned off by default? Then people who don't mind sharing could turn it on?
Sorry for neglecting this so long! I could do something that, but I think it might be of limited utility. I envision this tool being used by people that don't use Listology much otherwise, and also there's no discussion feature built into this tool, so you'd have to find some random list by the person you'd like to contact and post there.