Hi All,
As the originator and chief developer of Syndic8, this is a
lot of great feedback, and I would love to see more discussion.
I have always valued the community feedback, input, and
participation from everyone involved with Syndic8, and I only
wish that I had the ability to conduct even more 1:1 discussion
and support.
The original (mid-2001) concept for Syndic8 was for it to be
a place to come to find high quality RSS feeds on a variety
of topics. One reason that I created the site was to avoid
being the world's personal central point of contact for RSS
feeds. Before I built Syndic8, I built Headline Viewer, the
first (as far as I can tell) desktop RSS reader. At some point
in early 2000 I think that I had personal knowledge of over
90% of the RSS feeds that were then in existence. Syndic8
was born out of an effort to allow the community to help me
with the process of finding, submitting, organizing, and
improving the feeds.
We (I was able to say when Bill Kearney joined the effort
before the end of 2001) also wanted to provide feed owners
with the data needed to improve the quality and utility of
their feeds, and we wanted to collect a whole bunch of
extra "metadata" so that we knew even more about the feed
than simply what was inside it. Hence the efforts that we
have put into geo-coordinates, tags, categories, and so forth.
Clearly, the world has evolved a lot since the middle of 2001.
At that time, even the geekiest of my friends didn't know what
a feed was all about. Now that we have so many great feeds to
choose from, this is clearly no longer the case.
I do want to put some time into figuring out where we go next
what we need to add, what we need to remove, and what we need
to fade into the background for now.
To add some structure to this, can we discuss a couple of
things:
#1 - Top 3 things that you want to do with Syndic8 that are
either impossible or too hard.
#2 - Top 3 things that you love about Syndic8.
#3 - Top 3 things that suck about Syndic8.
We'll try to put up some forums or a Wiki really soon to facilitate
this process, but there's no need to wait.
Ok, now on to the future!
Jeff;
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:11:32 -0700, "Gateway To Sedona"
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> Hi...
>
> Yes I agree with the sentiments below. I thought it was just me before. I
> gave up on Syndic 8 too, since I could not figure out what to do...and I
> have several great, relevant, regional feeds that update every day for
> Sedona, Arizona.
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> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [syndic8] RSS and site traffic
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> Hi, David
> I agree with Samantha and Scott. "Overwhelming" is a good choice of
> word to describe the instructions I found in Syndic8, and I'm not a
> beginner. I've programmed in machine code and last year wrote my
> website in 3.1 HTML (very much like old BASIC).
> For a start, where's the syndicate-my-website button? Okay, maybe you
> can't make it that simple, but why on earth do we need to use
> latitude and longtitude to locate London, England, UK for my feed? I
> don't use a sextant to get around the web.
> Some of the information Syndic8 wanted was impossible to find, so I
> gave up and defected to FeedBurner, which does 90% of the work for
> you. Whether FeedBurner is actually syndicating my blog or merely
> giving visitors a choice of which newsfeed to use (a glorified
> add-to-my-favourites) I haven't figured out yet. But it did add my
> blog to my My Yahoo account to keep me abreast of what I'm doing on
> my blog. I must add a hit counter to find out if I have any visitors!
>
> David McInnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam,
>
> First, like anything else on the Web, RSS will not do much for you in
> terms of traffic unless it has good and useful content behind it.
>
> Secondly, Syndic8 is a great way to get started. This is a place to
> register your feed so that others can find it and include it in their
> sites / news readers.
>
> David
>
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 12:00 PM, samantha coe wrote:
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> > Hello, I am really new to everything to do with web sites generally
> > and
> > I am searching for the best ways to draw traffic to my site. How will
> > RSS and syndication help. I don't really understand how others on the
> > web will know about my feeds if I make them.
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