Phil Wolff: Blue Sky RadioThinking about the next generation of Radio UserLand and Manila. Exercises in Distributed Product Management and Collective wish list fulfillment.Cooking with Amy has an RSS feed!- January 28, 2004 Eat your Cooking with Amy via RSS and Atom. Feature request: let newsreaders understand Amy's recipes, restaurant reviews, packaged products, and events.http://cookingwithamy.blogspot.com/ Your blog's soul is its writing form; that soul's expression is its home page.- January 7, 2004 What makes blogging different than wikis or other web sites Among other factors, blogs emphasize the home page over site hierarchy. This lowers a blog reader's and a blog writer's cognitive burden. Three examples: Fresh stuff is prominent. Unlike other sites, readers always know where to look for updates and top of mind. Contrast with your typical corporate site of a thousand pages and no trusted way to know what is new. The old rule that fresh content attracts return visitors remains true....http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/42/cognitive_factors.htm Wishlist: The Standalone RSS Autodetective Client- January 5, 2004 I really want a standalone autodetection tool. As I surf, it will: live in the Windows system tray parse pages for urls pointing to syndication formats like RSS and Atom verify those feeds exist and collect their metadata write a log file of the detection and verification info, in OPML display the number of new discoveries when hovering over the system tray icon push the file to a server, periodically and optionally. By being a separate application from the RSS newsreader, the...http://dijest.com/aka/categories/blueSkyRadio/2004/01/05.html#a2683 |