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Re: RSS 2.0 comments element (Scripting News)

Jalexvn — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:55:10 -0000

Excelent

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Mr. Gunn — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:32:53 -0000

I support this, but I'd like to see readers with reading and writing comments as part of the app, not just a link out.

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bob stepno — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:17:20 -0000

vincent-- The pencil Dave's talking about is part of the Radio 8 aggregator, which runs on your computer, not a server. The pencil is part of the view of your incoming feeds. Click the pencil and the comment window pops open, as if you were at the blog's Web page. A little speaker icon indicates whether there's an audio file linked to the blog post... Something folks started calling a "podcast" a couple of years ago. Radio's the venerable multifunction blog editor from Dave's old company, Userland. Some of us do keep using it. :-)
Picture here: http://radio.weblogs.com/01...

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Mike — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:23:10 -0000

I use FeedDemon which supports comments by indicating. Nick saw your post and responded on his blog as well, so check that out for better description and snapshots of displaying commenting information.

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Bob Stepno — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:42:27 -0000

vincent-- The pencil Dave's talking about is part of the Radio 8 aggregator, which you have to install. It's part of the view of your incoming feeds. Click the pencil and the comment window pops open, just as if you were at the blog's Web page. It also gives you a little speaker icon if there's an audio file linked to the blog post... Something folks started calling a "podcast" a couple of years ago. Radio's the venerable multifunction blog editor from Dave's old company, Userland. Some of us do keep using it. :-)
Picture here: http://radio.weblogs.com/01...

Re: RSS 2.0 comments element (Scripting News)

nickhalstead — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:04:46 -0000

The problem with <comments> is that it links to the webpage to post the comment, this means the reader must open up a new window to let the user post, that use must then fight their way past captcha/non-standard-forms.

For me the issue that is holding back things is that currently we have POST feed & COMMENT feed, why not both together? We have put in massive amounts of work to match up post & comment from sources that dont really give us all the information we need.

The future of feed reading will be integrating the commenting process and although we are the first to do it t fav.or.it, I dont believe it be long before google/bloglines/newsgator do the same thing. In fact as thats not part of our business model I really really welcome it, as the standards need sorting out.

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nickhalstead — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:55:19 -0000

I think you may like fav.or.it then fp, it integrates commenting into the reader.

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vincentvw — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:33:02 -0000

I don't see any "pencil" in either Safari or Netvibes.

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Ted — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:24:39 -0000

Blog comments are the least useful form of human discourse.

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Jackson Miller — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:05:15 -0000

Google is getting FAST. I found this searching for information about the author element in RSS 2.0.

I am working on an application (statzen.com) that publishes feeds for many different blogs and am planning to provide support for the <comments> element.

On a somewhat related note, it seems that in order for the author element to be valid, it must expose an email address to spammers. What if that author element had an alternate syntax that allowed a URL to a contact form i.e.:

<author>http://example.com/contact (author name)</author>

Re: RSS 2.0 comments element (Scripting News)

fpgibson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:55:05 -0000

I have to say, I think comments are a critical component to the blogs I read. I do follow comment feeds, but an all in one solution would be better.