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Cool Blogs v 1.5

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30 May 2006 - 6:36pm
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We're working on the next round of improvements to Cool Blogs - and we are looking for feedback.

First we are looking to add 'threaded comments' - you know the kind of thing - nested comments so that relevant comments can be kept together.

The second piece we are looking to add is ratings for each post. This way you - our loyal readers - can do the right thing and vote with your mouse. More popular posts will be marked such. Maybe good bloggers can get T-Shirts... maybe the T-Shirts belong to the good comments...

The third piece we are working on is improved information about the Cool Bloggers themselves. Afterall - it would be interesting to read a little more about what these people actually do.

The final area we are working on is to aggregate posts from other Novell Cool Bloggers own Blogs. This is an interesting area of work; essentially Cool Blogs will become a centralised blog for lots of Novell people an their information and posts.

[Edit - I've also been asked about improved RSS - including Atom and better feed data - that's on the list too.]

As always - comments welcome.

Written at: Draper, UT




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Bob Jonkman's picture

I like to read the CoolBlogs

Submitted by Bob Jonkman (not verified) on 31 May 2006 - 10:50am.

I like to read the CoolBlogs through an Atom feed (RFC4287). Open standards, right?

Jim Pye's picture

I subscribe via the RSS feed

Submitted by Jim Pye (not verified) on 31 May 2006 - 12:33pm.

I subscribe via the RSS feed and one thing I notice is that the author of the blog is missing from the posting via this mechanism. I use Akregator as my aggregator if that makes a difference..

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Martin Buckley's picture

Bob, Jim, Both excellent

Submitted by Martin Buckley (not verified) on 31 May 2006 - 3:06pm.

Bob, Jim,

Both excellent points.

I am sitting down with the web team next week - I'll make sure that the post metadata is exposed if possible - also I'll see what we can do about other feed formats.

As a side note WordPress (or blogging platform) supports Atom 0.3 feeds - this url may help http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/wp-atom.php

Full Atom 1.0 compliant feeds are planned for the next release of WordPress.

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[...] One thing that was

Submitted by NOVELL: Cool Blogs » Blog Archive » “A long time ago on a pl (not verified) on 1 June 2006 - 7:01pm.

[...] One thing that was mentioned in the ‘Cool Blogs 1.5‘ project was aggregating Cool Blogs posts from the bloggers own blogs. [...]

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[...] We’ve learned a lot

Submitted by NOVELL: Cool Blogs » Blog Archive » Cool Blogs - almost nine (not verified) on 22 November 2006 - 9:05am.

[...] We’ve learned a lot about working with you, our readers. We’ve added features to this site based on feedback, and we have also been pretty open about our editorial and comment policies. [...]

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