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i tried contacting dare personally but never get replies :(
What I want to see happen to OPML is tagging be implemented right in the spec, so we can have a dynamic outline.
Think ipod interface, you can have an outline of genres, an outline oy years, an outline of artists or album names. I love opml i really do, but it is so static, and it's annoying me. we need to look at the successful ipod user interface, see how they apply tagging and make something similar for an rss reader.
if any developer, especially you dare, or nick bradbury want to listen to anything i have to say just drop me a line please. devilsrejection at gmail.com
The abilty of the user to define how the feed author is an authority is something I brought up at MindCamp, but no one seemed too interested except Alex Barnett. Everyone there seemed more interested in search engines defining the context and the tags. Like everyone would just agree on what the tags mean and how people fit into them. That's wrong thinking.
http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php/archi...
Now, Yahoo's reseach showed that users of RSS (including those who don't know they are using RSS) have 4.5 subscriptions, so for the avergae user, maybe this isn't so much of a problem? That said, I think this average will increase, a lot.
i want to give + and - to posts, and the programm shows me the overall rating of a feed. because it would be nice, to have the top wanted feeds on my pocketPC and also i want to remove the badest ones. but with more than 100 feeds, there would be hard work to filter the bad ones out(them, who maybe just had one good post and jumped on my list or so)
But for serious users of RSS (and I mean this in the sense of *needing* to work with this stuff) I find many developers trying to reinvent the extra wheel - instead of concentrating on things which would be important to a user.
I am not saying that there is the one right solution of how one has to use RSS, it would be nuts to say so. Everybody has a different style of working.
But there are some things which are consistent:
We want to read information which are important to us. We need to read certain information regardless if scored down otherwise- We do want to read our feeds but would like to explore more ("other people writing about this, ordered by if they are subscribed to by your friends")
On some topics we want to see updates from other sites ("if x new reactions have arrived, pop this up again"). Some information we only want to read for a special amount of time ("gadabe this stuff for the next 30 days, then disappear") We have rules based upon we would like to unsubscribe ("show me that this feed is on probation, if I do not click the interesting button at least on X percent of the posts, put it into the unsubscribed folder")
Also my friends could say this post is important so it pops up on my radar - and they do not need to post about it every time they see something slightly interesting.
*sigh* but of course, everything would be a goldmine for data mining - concepts of trust and of what share with whom (you can see my feeds but not my recommendations) need to come with this also.
I doubt that people with many feeds to read have so different needs from the people with some feeds - the latter just gives up earlier. If we improve ways to handle the feeds for power users, I am sure, there will be benefits for the others as well.
I would hate to see the typical user of IE7 with RSS built in to give up after a handful feeds because they are not managed well enough.