Re: [syndication] Aggregating and displaying feeds

[hpyle@agora.co.uk]

To answer only one point of Julian's,

> there's some conceptual design thought about how you display the results
> from multiple feeds. I want to try and get away from displaying the
> results sorted by feed and sort them by relevance, age and subject
> instead.

Some of this will depend on the use case.

With Radio Userland, I just watch the news go by.  I never want to browse historical news.  The front page's hundred-or-so stories are more than enough.  This is my "mainline" news source, so I'm looking for newness across a wide range of subjects.

With our "groovey YAFA" each user might have several news tools in different spaces.  If I'm in a sales space, that tool will probably collect a trickle of very specialised news articles about one customer or a few competitors.  In an analyst briefing space, it'll be a single feed.  I'll probably also have a project-team space with a wider collection of news to scan.  In general, because it's finely-tuned news "in context",  the ability to browse and search historical information is much more relevant.

(So we've tried to do both... a reverse-chronological "headlines" view and also a "browse" treeview by channel... neither is perfect.  In particular a tree which only categorises by channel is not desperately powerful).


-Hugh

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