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Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

kabbalah bracelet — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:18:09 -0000

"The latest MySpace stuff from Mashcodes:"

Robert,

I used to have them, but they were ugly and confused people. Clicking on the orange icon takes you to the feedburner page where you can choose from a range of feedreaders.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:17:09 -0000

OK, for those who requested it, I've added a complete feed of all the Mashable sites (see the post). If you have any problems, let me know.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:26:28 -0000

Ted,

Because I'm guessing most readers of Mashable are looking for news/opinions on Web 2.0 startups. If I start throwing in my journal (up to 7 posts a day) and Weblist (around 6-7 posts a day), I think the signal to noise ratio could go awry for those readers.

Unless you mean in the more general sense (like, why would anyone want to split up a blog?). And actually I think there are lots of reasons you might want to do that - the main one being that blogs tend to focus on particular topics, while a blogger's interests might go beyond those topics.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

ted — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:19:59 -0000

Why dilute your content? Putting it all in one place seems like a better idea.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:01:05 -0000

Drew,

Thanks - that is helpful. The main reason I'm using separate installs is that I really, really don't want Mashable to go down (and knowing my lack of skillz, it probably would.) If it was a new site, I might do things differently.

However, I would like to be able to search across all 3 blogs, and give readers the option to do the same. Does anyone know how this might be done?

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Drew Loika — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:36:27 -0000

Hey, thought you might find this useful, I'm setting up a blog for myself with segregated content (ie /main, /journal, etc) but wanted to do it all from within a single wordpress install to make searching, wordpress maintenance, etc easier and while it does involve changing some code it's really quite easy. Here's my thread in wordpress support...

http://wordpress.org/suppor...

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Lindsay Donaghe — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:02:25 -0000

Isn't it nice to have the right place for everything? I have started customizing a WordPress installation to be a PIM and I might release the theme/plugins to the wild when I'm happy with them. I don't know how I ever lived without it!

I love being able to just do periodic brain dumps there and come back later to flesh out ideas, and it's great for storing contact information, code snippets, useful info clips from email (so I can delete the email) and IM conversation logs (organized by topic and with additional notes). Of course it's all private and only I can see it, but that is part of what makes it nice. I don't have to polish it but there are gems there waiting when I have the time to work on them and move them up to my public blog.

Good luck with the new organization. It looks like it's working well so far!

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Robert Oschler — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:23:59 -0000

Ok, nevermind, I just have to click on the RSS FEED link in the lower right hand corner.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:16:21 -0000

Robert,

I used to have them, but they were ugly and confused people. Clicking on the orange icon takes you to the feedburner page where you can choose from a range of feedreaders.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Robert Oschler — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:13:31 -0000

Pete,

Why don't you add the usual "subcribe to my blog" chicklets? Here's a tool that makes it easy:

http://www.toprankresults.c...

Robert

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:17:03 -0000

anon,

Hmph - I can't get an aggregated feed to work. I thought that something like FeedDigest or FeedShake would let me merge all three feeds. I got them to work, but they are only displaying extracts, not full posts. I'm guessing you want to see full posts, so if anyone knows more about feed merging than me, your help would be appreciated.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:13:35 -0000

Geez, these Feedburner feeds can really screw up sometimes - it looks like all three were "making a clunking sound" this morning. I've resynchronized them and they're all up again now. Hopefully that's the last of the issues.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:06:13 -0000

anon,

It never occurred to me that someone might want to subscribe to *all* my ramblings. I'm making an aggregated feed for you now.

Bart,

There was a temporary problem with the Feedburner feed for Weblist. I've fixed it now and you should be able to subscribe.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Bart Claeys — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:56:56 -0000

Feedburner doesn't like Weblist too much. Can't seem to subscribe to the feed :(

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

anon — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:39:36 -0000

i'm going anonymous b/c i don't want to seem like a brown-noser,
but for those of us who really dig your stuff, but like a tidy feedreader, would it be possible to subscribe to an aggregated feed?

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

J-Fleaux — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:05:20 -0000

When I saw 'The Mashable Reshuffle' I was really excited...I thought Pete had finally broked down and decided to go back to his roots and show us a new dance...better than 'the electric slide', crazier than 'the hustle', it's "The Mashable Reshuffle!!!!!"

I have too much time on my hands.

Re: 2006/02/20/the-mashable-reshuffle/

Pete Cashmore — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:32:48 -0000

By the way, here's a question for the next designer to drop by: why don't the feed icons appear in line with the text?

Which reminds me - I still haven't sorted out the alignment and lack of transparent backgrounds on the smileys - most likely the problems are related. :)