We are in a new world of news, syndication, and feeds. The feed reader was only one model of how one can consume these kinds of resources. Feed readers were built to approximate email clients since that was a known paradigm. This worked early on, but is now a fundamentally flawed way to read any reasonable quantity of news.
We’re stuck with some old ideas about read/unread that are very hard to shake.
Originally the read/unread count helped alert you that there was new content available for reading. in the new world there is always something new for you to read, accept it. You should decide when you want to read news, not have the reader tell you when you must read the news.
Maar… dat wist iedereen natuurlijk al lang en iedereen handelt er ook zo naar. Of ….?
En daarom ben ik zo dol op de Grazr Streams zoals de EduNLRiverOfNews of andere vormen van ‘River of News’ en kijk ik bijna nooit naar van die dashboards waar alles keurig per website in aparte hokjes opgesomd staat.
Ook Grazr gaat voor KISS.Niet door nu weer van alles UIT de dienst te slopen, maar door voor de gebruiker te focussen op het feitelijke eindresultaat: Streams.
Adam Green schrijft op Feedonomics:
We thought we were making it increasingly useful, but we kept finding out that the more features we added, the more confused people became. So we have finally learned our lesson. Grazr now does a single thing: it merges and filters multiple feeds into a single stream. Everything else in the product serves that single goal.
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The first step in carrying out this plan is redesigning the site. We just put up a new home page for users who are not logged in ….
Lees verder: What does Grazr do?
Een goede ontwikkeling! Maar ik ben wel blij dat alle onderliggende functionaliteit voor de ‘inlichtingenwerk-specialisten’ (mijn vertaling voor ‘librarians’) beschikbaar blijft, want Grazr is en blijft een fantastisch concept.
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