Hmm. I kind of like the way in the current week's feed, you've
actually expanded on each of the "What's New" items; I find that I
frequently miss the What's New section since it's just a couple of
links, so having a little summary of each one is nice. That said, its
probably a lot more work to maintain those What's New descriptions,
so it would be fine for you to collapse them all into one "What's
New" article. I think for the Thought Residue, you might want to
either copy each item into a separate article, or put them all in one
section with the first one as the summary. The funny thing about
Thought Residue is that sometimes the thoughts/quotes are related,
and sometimes they're just separate items. I find that I like having
two sentences to a paragraph per article in my RSS feed; if I want to
see more, I'll click through to the actual site. I like the idea of
having items for Tirade's Choice, HMR, and Testimonial of the Week; I
think it's good to get everything in the RSS feed. It might also be
nice to spice up the RSS feed a little bit by putting some of the
pictures in the feed; there are pictures for the Icehouse Game Design
contest, the Play Fluxx and win Buxx contest, This Week On Ebay, and
embedded in the main article. I don't really know how other people
feel about pictures in their RSS feed, but I think they're nice to
spice things up as long as they aren't too big (probably less than
about 200x200 pixels).
Hope this helps, and I'd love to hear what other people think,
Brian
On Sep 5, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Robin wrote:
Brain - You asked:
> I'm wondering, though; is one of these feeds a subset of the other?
I'll confess that I haven't worked that out yet. I was thinking
originally that they would be different, and I was hoping to get
feedback from folks as to what they'd like to see in the feeds -
what sections you want to monitor. Of course one article in the
feed will be a summary of the "What's Going On?" section. I could
list the "What's New?" section as one article. This section often
points to game info (e.g., Fluxx, Family Fluxx, EcoFluxx, etc.)
that I would also use in the looneylabs.com feed, but there are
plenty of other items in that section as well such as the "Ember
Update" and "GinohnNews". What do you think about one article
that's the whole "What's New?" section (since it's a short section)
rather than list each item as it's own article? I also thought
about pointing to "Tirade's Choice", the "Haiku Movie Reviews", and
the "Testimonial of the Week". Not sure about the "Thought Residue"
section though - I can't summarize it so do I just copy it into
it's own article or not? What sections/updates would you like to
see in the weekly feed for wunderland.com?
Robin Vinopal
EMPL13@xxxxxxx (Looney Labs Employee #13)
http://rabbits.looneylabs.com/?RabbitUserID=robinav
LOONEY LABS (http://www.looneylabs.com/)
On Sep 5, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Brian Campbell wrote:
Cool, thanks! Now there's one more site that I don't have to check
manually for updates. Now, if only all of the webcomics I read
would support RSS, I could avoid having to check any sites on a
regular basis.
I'm wodnering, though; is one of these feeds a subset of the
other? I don't want to miss anything, but I also don't want to
have lots of duplicates in my RSS reader. It looks like the
Wunderland feed is a superset of the Looney Labs feed, but I want
to check to make sure.
On Sep 5, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Robin wrote:
I set up a RSS News Feed for the wunderland.com and
looneylabs.com web sites. If you go to http://www.looneylabs.com/
you'll see a small graphic on the bottom right that says "RSS"
which is a link to the xml feed.
I haven't yet put up the same graphic on wunderland.com but the
feed is there and ready (http://wunderland.com/feed.xml). Much of
the content is the same between the two sites, but there are some
differences.
I plan to update and publish new articles to the feeds approx.
once a week (probably on the weekends).
To read an RSS News Feed you'll need a news reader. For Mac
users, if you've upgraded to 10.4 (Tiger) you can use Safari to
view a feed. Once you launch your news reader, you can subscribe
to these:
http://www.looneylabs.com/feed.xml
http://wunderland.com/feed.xml
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More Info:
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RSS Readers
http://blogspace.com/rss/readers
Wikipedia - RSS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29
RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175281
If anyone has any questions or feedback please let me know.
Thanks,
Robin Vinopal
EMPL13@xxxxxxx (Looney Labs Employee #13)
http://rabbits.looneylabs.com/?RabbitUserID=robinav
LOONEY LABS (http://www.looneylabs.com/)
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