Comments on: Blog Whines

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Web Feeds. So simple. So succinct. I say we start using it.

(And thanks for adding me!)

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not sure web feed will help convince people to use it. I mean Donna is no dumby and she hasn’t been using an aggregator herself, right? Would she have been more likely to use it if it was called “Web Feed”? I am not sure but I sort of doubt it.

I think it’s the process that is screwed up. Like the boss lady said recently. If I click that orange button, I get this page of gobbledy gook – THAT is the problem, not what it’s called. Heck, make it a plain orange button for all I care with no text at all. Just fix it so it is obvious to non geeks how you use it.

Now technorati, that’s another issue entirely.

By: DrumsNWhistles

DrumsNWhistles — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Remember the days of “pushed content”? That was what I thought of immediately when I was first introduced to aggregators.

Compuserve did a much more elegant job of this 10 years ago…LOL.

By: DrumsNWhistles

DrumsNWhistles — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Technorati updated their software tonight to limit searches to language-specific results and top lists of blogs. Maybe there’s hope.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It's liz here from I Speak of Dreams (I got here from a link at Strewwelpeter, who subscribes to my blog through bloglines)

http://www.bloglines.com/

Struwwelpeter's bloglines subscriptions but I amnot sure who struwwelpeter is...

Bloglines makes it all easy for me. I like easy.

By: DrumsNWhistles

DrumsNWhistles — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi liz…

Looks like Nancy White’s blog is the common denominator. It’s nice to see you here. I use bloglines too, but that doesn’t help when I want to put that link up on the side of the blog..at least, not yet!