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the boy in the bubble » Blog Archive » Wir sind das RSS-Volk! — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:45:23 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:49:09 +0000

Thanks for the pointer to Russell Beattie. I wasn’t familiar with his work, and I’m finding it very interesting…

By: cori schlegel

cori schlegel — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:27:53 +0000

oops. I enclosed Donna’s quote (”I read for the content, not for the site experience. I often have a look at sites once to see what they look like, but after that, I don’t care.”) in a

, which previewed OK (if a little ugly) but then completely disappeared in the post.

Sorry about that.

By: cori schlegel

cori schlegel — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:26:17 +0000

Ahhhhhh. Full text. Thanks.

Also, there were some great comments to your post yesterday, but I found that Donna Maurer’s post did not match my personal reasons for subscribing to Bokardo when she wrote:

I read for the content, not for the site experience. I often have a look at sites once to see what they look like, but after that, I don’t care.

I like your content. A lot. But I also really like the website experience you provide. That’s what made me subscribe, and also what’ll continue to make me click through.

I do agree with Donna is one respect though; your site is an anomaly for me in that sense; many other feeds I read I never go to the site.

Finally, I agree with Bud (above) that the packaging and delivery of information via RSS is a key design concern - look at Russell Beattie’s experiment with forms in his feeds as the very beginning of this. One extremely important element that goes un-resolved is the issue of how to follow comments without revisiting the site.

By: Bud Gibson

Bud Gibson — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:57:09 +0000

Josh:

Glad to see you return to this topic as I was very impressed by your write-up in Digital Web. Have you read Russell Beattie’s call for an RSS-only blog?

BTW, I wonder if the new design challenge is not figuring out how to organize the packets of information that are enclosed in RSS feeds.