Actually, there appears to be a variable number of keystrokes presented that is not influenced by name length.

Choppy newsfeed. ~40 keystrokes show up in my news reader. When a name is included and perhaps some HTML formatting, one gets no sense of the actual message. Perhaps this is easy to reformat?

I have put my name after the message to increase the number of informative keystrokes that are presented in the newsfeed.

Paul Ebert

Edited by author 12-20-2004 10:14 AM
Hi Robin,

Looks interesting indeed.

With regard to weblogs, my take on the potential benefit (over and above the existing comments feature) would be in having ongoing discussions separate from any particular post.

If I understand the new RSS feature correctly, it ought to allow the display of the current discussion directly in my blog. Any replies would, of course, be made using the external QuickTopic service.

Thanks for the pointer.

Andre

PS

OK, just read the FAQ (should have done so in the first place) and see that integrating the discussion into one's own site is quite independant of the RSS Feed - allowing direct replies to be made there too!

Good value!

Hi Robin. I've been reading you for about 6 months now & look forward to it everyday. I have been evangelizing RSS to my company's executives for about the same time period. One of the things that I still don't have a handle on is the usage of trackbacks. I see them at the end of your articles & understand that they relate to the topic you have just discussed. My confusion is on the mechanics of it. How do you create them? How do they relate to the aggregation of data on the topic that you are tracking?
Btw, thank you for the turn-on to QuickTopic, I just joined today.

Hi, here is Robin, and this is a free Web-based discussion thread that you can utilize to feedback some of your ideas about the usefulness and applications of RSS feeds to asynchronous discussion technologies like this one.

What do you think of it?

Do you find you could take good advantage of this? How?