Ryan Singel here from Contextly (my co-founder wrote the blog post).
I think you are absolutely right on with the insight that stellar content is missed by readers for many reasons.
We are part of a solution for publishers that want to have a re-purposing program. Some of that can and should be very editorial, but it can also be complemented or informed by a service like ours that works on a publisher's own domain.
Our definition of "evergreen" for the purposes of the study of the HN archive differs from the one we use for our publishing clients.
That said, I do think it would be interesting to see what stories continually get re-submitted, as that may well show off the most unchanging evergreen.
(Defined in that case as a story that continually has a fairly high value for a substantial number of people over a steady amount of time. Compare that to say David Sedari's SantaLand Diaries, which is also an "evergreen," but I would strongly suspect a highly seasonal time of interest.)
I think you are absolutely right on with the insight that stellar content is missed by readers for many reasons.
We are part of a solution for publishers that want to have a re-purposing program. Some of that can and should be very editorial, but it can also be complemented or informed by a service like ours that works on a publisher's own domain.
Our definition of "evergreen" for the purposes of the study of the HN archive differs from the one we use for our publishing clients.
That said, I do think it would be interesting to see what stories continually get re-submitted, as that may well show off the most unchanging evergreen.
(Defined in that case as a story that continually has a fairly high value for a substantial number of people over a steady amount of time. Compare that to say David Sedari's SantaLand Diaries, which is also an "evergreen," but I would strongly suspect a highly seasonal time of interest.)